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The Secretary to the Ekiti State Government, Biodun Oyebanji, has resigned his position and declared his intention to contest the forthcoming governorship election in the state. Chief Press Secretary to the Governor of Ekiti State, Yinka Oyebode disclosed this on Tuesday in a statement titled ‘Ekiti SSG Oyebanji Resigns From Cabinet.’ The statement read, “Ekiti…
In order to guide the implementation of the 2022 appropriation, President Muhammadu Buhari has written the Senate again, seeking the consideration and subsequent passage of the 2021 Finance bill. This was contained in a letter dated 7th December and addressed to the President of the Senate, Senator Ahmad Lawan, and read Tuesday during plenary.In the letter, President…
High Chief Josephine Ezeanyaeche, 102 year centenarian activist, charged the nation’s leaders to ensure that Nigeria remained one indivisible nation, amid persistent calls from some quarters for the country to disintegrate. Ezeanyaeche, who is 102 years and known popularly as “Mama Africa”, gave the charge when she visited a media outfit in Abuja on Tuesday….
Ofem Uket, spokesman of Goddy Agba, Minister of State for Power, in a statement made available to newsmen on Tuesday announced that, President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the sack of the management of the Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC). According to the statement, the president also approved a new interim governing board to oversee the…
Following the decision by the British Government to include Nigeria in their COIVD-19 red list, the senate has taken a swipe at the government of the United Kingdom, UK, and call for immediate removal of Nigeria from the red list. The red chamber of national assembly also condemned in very strong terms, the U.K Government’s…
There is an urgent need for collective efforts in the fights against corruption, the federal government and United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) have said. They made known at the high-level workshop entitled: “Gender Dimension of Anti-corruption in Nigeria” against the backdrop of 2021 16-day of activism to end Gender-based violence on Monday…
A group of Civil Society Organizations have called on political parties to collaborate and merge their primary elections to bring down the burden cost imposed by the mandatory direct primaries as contained in the electoral act amendment recently passed by the National Assembly. The National Assembly had on November 9th adopted the direct primary for…
In recent times more positive reports have been coming from Nigeria’s apex regulatory body in banking with the recent revelation by The Deputy Governor, Financial System Stability, Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and Chairman FITC Board, Mrs. Aisha Ahmad, that the Loan-to-Deposit ratio (LDR) has hit about N7 trillion on bank savings. Mrs Ahmad stated that…
As the preparation for 2023 presidential election gathers momentum, the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, on Monday, slated February 21, 2022, to deliver judgement in a suit seeking to bar former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, from vying for presidency in 2023. The suit marked FHC/ABJ/CS/177, is challenging Atiku’s eligibility on the premise that he…
Nigeria and South Africa should respond in kind to the travel restrictions by the UK and other western nations. UK, banned travellers from African countries following the discovery of the Omicron COVID-19 variant, in Canada, Indonesia, the US and a number of countries in Europe. The UK announced on Saturday that, it would add Nigeria…
