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Ekiti State Governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose has described the sack of the Executive Secretary of the Financial Regulatory Council (FRC) of Nigeria, Mr. Jim Obazee, in connection with the implementation of the controversial Corporate Governance Code 2016 as an afterthought and cover-up to stem the tide of negative public reactions to the implementation of the […]

Erstwhile National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, Olisa Metuh, is on admission at the National Hospital Abuja. This was communicated by his lawyer, Mr. Onyechi Ikpeazu (SAN), who told the trial judge, Justice Okon Abang while giving reasons for the absence of Metuh from court, on Tuesday in Abuja. The embattled National Publicity […]

The Borno Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) on Tuesday said it had discovered ‘’Count down Timers’’ used by Boko Haram terrorists to detonate explosives. The Commandant of the corps, Mr Ibrahim Abdullahi, disclosed this in Maiduguri in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN). Abdullahi said that the […]

The National Assembly on Tuesday rejected  Prof. Akintunde Akinwande, President Muhammadu Buhari’s nominee for Chairmanship of the Board of the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission. The Senate confirmed the nomination of six other members for the board. The Senate dropped Akinwande due to his absence from the screening of nominees by the Senate Committee on Power, […]

The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has hailed Jim Obazee’s removal as executive secretary of the Financial Reporting Council of Nigeria (FRC). President Muhammadu Buhari fired him on Monday night. Speaking to The Nation, Musa Asake, general secretary, of the organisation said: “The sack of Jim (Obazee) is good riddance to bad rubbish. Anybody that […]

Nigeria’s former president Goodluck Jonathan and his oil minister, Diezani Alison-Madueke received kickbacks as part of a $1.3 billion deal involving oil giants ENI and Shell, Italian prosecutors have said. According to a  report by the AFP, Court documents filed late last month in the city of Milan  outline a case against 11 people, including […]

The Delta Government has registered over 30,000 farmers across the selected enterprises of Cassava, Oil Palm, Rice and Fisheries for the CBN Anchor Borrowers Programme. The State Commissioner for Agriculture and Natural Resources, Mr Austin Chikezie, disclosed this in an interview with (NAN) in Asaba. He said that the aim was to boost the production […]

Council of lmams and Ulama in Kaduna State, has called on the federal and Kaduna State governments to arrest and prosecute persons who made inflammatory statements that instigated the crises in Southern Kaduna. Addressing newsmen in Kaduna, Monday, the council chairman, Sheikh Abubakar Babantune, listed those to be arrested to include; 1. Senator representing Southern […]

Four West African leaders, including President Muhammadu Buhari, have commenced a meeting on the final strategy to get President Yahya Jammeh out of office. Jammeh was defeated by opposition Adama Barrow, who is supposed to be inaugurated on 19th January. The refusal to concede defeat by Jammeh is the main focus of the West African […]

President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of retired Major-Gen. Emmanuel Bassey and Mr Ado Ja’afar as Commissioners for the Civil Defence, Fire service, Immigration and Prisons Services Board. The acting Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Interior, Alhaji Muhammadu Maccido, in a statement on Monday said that their appointments take immediate effect. Bassey is a retired […]

Barely 48 hours after the exit of Pastor Enoch Adeboye as GO of RCCG in Nigeria, Jim Obazee, the man in charge in charge of Financial Reporting Council of Nigeria (FRN), the agency that formulated the law that caused him to resign has been sacked.  A statement issued by Shehu Garba on Monday, said, “President […]

The recent call by the Sultan of Sokoto, His Eminence, Mohammad Sa’ad Abubakar 111, on the Senate, not to pass the Gender Equality Bill because, according to him, the Bill is anti-Islam, is not only false, retrogressive, oppressive but also a continued conspiracy against the total emancipation of the female folk from the stranglehold of […]