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On October 9, 2024, the United Nations General Assembly elected 18 members to the Human Rights Council for the 2025-2027 term.   The members elected to the Council are Benin, Bolivia, Colombia, Cyprus, Czechia, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Gambia, Iceland, Kenya, Marshall Islands, Mexico, North Macedonia, Qatar, Republic of Korea, Spain, Switzerland and […]

The lawmaker who represented Kaduna Central in the 8th Assembly, Senator Shehu Sani, has sent a fresh response to Hadiza El-Rufai, former First Lady of Kaduna State.   Mrs El-Rufai had tackled him on Saturday after he made a post about President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.     In the post via X, Sani opined that […]

Chairman/CEO of Air Peace, Allen Onyema, has been charged ‘in a superseding indictment with obstruction of justice for submitting false documents to the government in an effort to end an investigation that resulted in earlier charges of bank fraud and money laundering.’   This was contained in a statement released on by the Justice Department. […]

The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) is demanding an immediate reversal of the latest increase in the price of petrol.   The organisation urged President Bola Tinubu “to direct the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) to immediately reverse the second increase in petrol prices in one month, pending the hearing and determination of […]

The Federal Government has given approval for marketers to begin the lifting of premium motor spirit commonly known as fuel from the Dangote Refinery without going through the Nigerian National Petroluem Company Limited (NNPCL).    According to a Friday statement by the Minister of Finance and the Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Wale Edun, the […]

Justice Peter Lifu of the Federal High Court in Abuja has restrained the National Executive Committee (NEC) and Board of Trustees (BoT) of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) from removing Umar Damagum as the Acting National Chairman of the party.   The court ordered that no other person must be recognised as PDP national chairman […]

Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has criticised President Bola Tinubu’s handling of the fuel subsidy crisis, referring to him as “TPain” in a tweet on Thursday.   Atiku attributed the current economic challenges facing Nigeria to what he described as the “haphazard and disingenuous approach” of the Tinubu administration to fuel subsidy management.   In […]

 The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, has demanded an immediate reversal of the fresh fuel price hike, saying it is an aberration that the NNPC is fixing fuel prices in a so-called deregulated sector.   According to the NLC, the federal government led by President Bola Tinubu should immediately reverse the latest hike in petrol price, […]

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) says 84 of its members died between May and August 2024 due to economic hardship and unpaid salaries.   ASUU President, Emmanuel Osodeke, made this startling revelation on the Sunday edition of Inside Sources with Laolu Akande, a socio-political programme aired on Channels Television.   “In the past […]

President Bola Tinubu has called on Governor Siminalayi Fubara, political leaders and their supporters in Rivers State to exercise restraint and uphold the rule of law.     In response to recent tensions following last Saturday’s local government council election, the President expressed deep concern over reports of arson and explosions in the state.   […]

  The website of Nigeria High Commission in UK currently has more of the polices of the government of President Goodluck Jonathan, who left office in 2015.   The policy statements of President Bola Tinubu, who assumed office in 2023, and has visited UK for at least five times since then, are not found on […]

The Senior Staff Association of Statutory Corporations and Government-Owned Companies (SSASCGOC), an affiliate of the Trade Union Congress (TUC) representing workers of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), has embarked on an indefinite strike over unresolved staff welfare concerns.   The strike, which began on Monday, October 7, 2024, centers […]