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An Abuja Federal High Court has issued an order of interim forfeiture of 40 landed properties belonging to the former Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu. 10 of Ekweremadu’s properties in Enugu, three in the United States of America (USA), two in the United Kingdom (UK), one in Lagos, nine in Dubai, and 15 located in […]

 The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU)  is set to summon an emergency meeting of the National Executive Council (NEC) Following the decision of the Federal Government to pay the lecturers half salaries for the month of October, 2022, . It was gathered that the decision to convene a meeting followed the drama which erupted […]

The Wife of Oyo state governor, Engineer Tamuno Makinde has empowered over two hundred widows in the state to alleviate their economic hardship which has ravaged the entire country. The Empowerment which was made by the office of wife of Oyo state governor in conjunction with Oyo state government, held at the office of the […]

The Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Mahmood Yakubu, has sought the support of Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) in cleaning the nation’s voters’ register. Yakubu made the call during the Commission’s quarterly meeting with the CSOs in Abuja on Thursday. Prof. Yakubu said that during the Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) exercise, which started […]

The Court of Appeal in Abuja has reversed the March 8 judgment of the Abuja Federal High Court, sacking Ebonyi State Governor, David Umahi and his deputy, Eric Kelechi Igwe, for defecting from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the All Progressives Congress (APC). In a judgement today, a three-member panel of the appellate court […]

The Federal Government has taken a bold step towards finding sustainable solutions by safeguarding and revitalising the shrinking Lake Chad Basin. The Minister of Water Resources and current Chairman of the Lake Chad Basin Commission, Suleiman Adamu, disclosed this at the Regional Validation Workshop in Abuja on Thursday. The workshop was for the revised terms […]

President Muhammadu Buhari today returned to Abuja after attending the First World Bio Summit in Seoul, South Korea. The presidential aircraft carrying Buhari and members of his entourage landed at the Presidential Wing of the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja at about 4:10 am this morning. While in Seoul, Buhari presented Nigeria’s statement at […]

Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, yesterday, returned to the country after spending 12 days in the United Kingdom (UK), ending speculation about his rumoured ill health. Tinubu, clad in a jacket and a cap to match, was received by hundreds of party stalwarts after his plane landed at the […]

The Court of Appeal has ordered the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to call off its strike immediately. The court, however, granted the application on the condition that the union obeys the lower court’s ruling and calls off the strike immediately, pending the determination of the substantive suit. The court gave ASUU seven days […]

President Muhammadu Buhari has called for a “more sustainable model of funding tertiary education” and maintained that government alone cannot do it. He said this today at the National Assembly while presenting a record N20.51 trillion 2023 budget proposal, pinning his argument on the fact that the cost of tertiary education is “jointly shared” in […]