ECOWAS has stood stern while requesting for the immediate release and reinstatement of the deposed President of Niger Republic, Mohamed Bazoum. The West Africa body has equally sought for the full restoration of constitutional order in the country. These are part of the resolutions adopted at the body’s emergency meeting in Abuja, summoned by its…
A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has ordered the disclosure of the spending details of over N200bn public funds collected by the administration of the immediate past Governor of Delta State, Ifeanyi Okowa from the Universal Basic Education Commission, (UBEC). It also ordered the spending disclosure of allocations from the Federation Accounts. The Presiding…
The Kano State Pubic Complain and Anti-Corruption Agency has started investigation into missing government funds from the State’s Agricultural Supply Company (KASCO) amounting to the tune of over four billion naira. The Chairman of the Commission, Muhyi Gado while leading an investigation tour to the warehouses were cars, heavy duty tractors and tractors alleged to…
In a bid to swiftly return Niger Republic to democratic governance after Wednesday’s take over by the military, Nigeria’s President, Bola Ahmed Tinubu will on Sunday host a special meeting of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) In a statement by his media aide, Dele Alake, the President pledged that ECOWAS and the…
The New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) has stopped the working committee of its executives in seven states. The affected states include Ekiti, Rivers, Niger, Katsina, Kaduna, and Zamfara States. The National Publicity Secretary of the party, Dr Agbo Major who announced this while briefing newsmen in Abuja, explained that the action followed the report of…
Edited by Damilola Adeleke Former US president Donald Trump said Friday he would not end his run for the White House if condemned and sentenced in any of the criminal investigations threatening to derail his tumultuous comeback bid. The Republican frontrunner was discussing the multiple accusations he faces as he pushes for a second term,…
The President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio, has accepted the long-awaited ministerial list from President Bola Tinubu, with former governors, senators, and the House of Representatives members dominating the list. The list was submitted by Femi Gbajiabiamila the former Speaker, of the House of Representatives, now Chief of Staff to the President, who entered the Chamber at 1.18 p.m. and…
NIGERIANS would be availed with the names of the ministers as National Assembly sits for the official release of the Ministerial list. Some of the names shared by the social media coordinator Tinubu transition Arabinrin Aderonke, include: former governor of Rivers state Nyesom Wike, former governor of Kaduna State Nasir Ahmad el-Rufai and eminent medical…
The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Dr Tajudeen Abbas, has met with President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on the strike action by the National Association of Resident Doctors of Nigeria (NARD). At the meeting, Dr Abbas briefed the President on the outcome of his meeting with the NARD leadership. He also appealed to President Tinubu…
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has issued a one-week ultimatum and warning to the Federal Government to reverse the recent increases in the pump price of petrol, school fees in federal schools and the release of 8 months withheld salaries of university lecturers or face nationwide protests and industrial action. This is contained in a…
Justice assurances fairness, equity and leads to freedom and prosperity. With justice, standards, due processes, and methods are diligently followed and observed. With this, security, peace, calmness, and orderliness are substantially achieved. Sadly, what we have witnessed in the suspended governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Mr. Godwin Emefiele’s case, is a departure…
Ogun State Governor, Dapo Abiodun, on Tuesday disclosed the readiness of the his administration to assist private mini buses owners in the state convert to using Compressed Natural Gas at the expense of the State government, as part of palliative to ease the effects of subsidy removal. Abiodun, who disclosed this in an interview in…
The Borno state government has shared food palliatives to about 23,000 households in Baga town of Kukawa Local Government Area of the state. With the reports embarked upon by The United Nations, where it was projected that more than 500,000 people would face emergency levels of food insecurity and about 7000 children are likely to…
in view of Emefiele’s trail, Justice Nicholas Oweibo of the Federal High Court in Lagos has granted the suspended governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele, bail in the sum of twenty million nairas with one surety. Justice Oweibo however noted that the embattled former CBN governor should be remanded in prison custody…
The Governor of Yobe State Hon. Mai Mala Buni, yesterday accepted the release of the sum of N1.7 billion for the payment of work plans-based Projects across the 17 Local Government Areas. The Permanent Secretary Ministry for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs Alh. Ali Mustapha said, “This was done after the completion of the work…
The Independent National Electoral Commission INEC has beseeched and advised accredited Observers for the concluded 2023 General Elections to table down their reports to enhance its Operation for future elections and deepen the Nation’s democracy. INEC Chairman Professor Mahmood Yakubu gave the advice in Abuja during a meeting with Civil Society Organisations on the review…
The Independent National Electoral Commission has said it plans to study its result management system following Nigerians’ complaints about the 2023 general elections. The commission said its result management system had been a subject of litigation. The INEC chairman, Professor Mahmood Yakubu, said this during the post-election review meeting with Collation and Returning Officers on…
President Bola Tinubu has approved the establishment of Infrastructure Support Fund (ISF) for the 36 States of the Federation as part of measures to cushion the effects of the petrol subsidy removal on the masses. The approval was disclosed at the monthly meeting of the Federation Account Allocation Committee (FAAC), in Abuja. The Infrastructure Fund…
The House of Representatives is establishing and tendering diplomatic solutions towards resolving the plight of Nigerian citizens in Danare and Biajua communities at the disputed Nigeria Cameroon border. Mrs Beni Lar, the Chairman of the House Adhoc committee probing the potential land encroachment at the border by the Cameroonian government, stated this during the proceedings…
Nigeria’s Federal House of Representatives has rejected a possible rise in electricity tariffs. The House took a stand against a proposed increase on Tuesday, July 20. According to Channels Television, Honorable Aliyu Madaki moved the motion to reject the increase, which would create an additional cost burden on Nigerians who are already feeling the burden of…
Nigeria Federal Government’s planned distribution of N500 billion to Nigerians as palliatives to cushion the effects of fuel subsidy removal has been condemned by the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) who described it as another ploy to further impoverish the people. In a statement, NLC President, Joe Ajaero described the Federal Government’s move as robbing the…
The President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, President Bola Tinubu has asked for the immediate review of the 8,000 Naira conditional cash transfer programme aimed at providing succour to most vulnerable households Tinubu however has also directed the unveiling of the whole palliative package meant to cushion the effects of the fuel subsidy removal….
Not fewer than 60 Constitutional and Human Right lawyers, have stormed the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, Maitama, to commence committal proceedings against the Director General of the State Security Service, DSS, Mr Yusuf Bichi, for what they described as violation of orders of court directing the release of suspended Governor of the…
Senator Iyiola Omisore, the National Secretary of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has been replaced with the Deputy National Secretary, Festus Fuanter. This is just as the proposed National Caucus and National Executive Committee, NEC, meetings scheduled for July 18 and 19 have been put on hold. The new developments were declared openly by the…
The Imo State Governor, Hope Uzodimma, has boosted the minimum wage for workers in the state to N40,000, NewsBreakNaija has learned. The Governor, initially this year, had convinced the state of his willingness to pay the new national minimum wage of N30,000 but received the increment today. More details coming shortly….
NIGERIA’S Labour Party (LP) in Lagos State has read a riot act to all aspirants jostling for the party’s ticket ahead of the Surulere Federal Constituency I bye- election, slated for August 19, 2023. The Lagos State Chairperson of LP, Pastor Dayo Ekong who read the act at a news briefing on Friday evening at…
The First Lady of the Federal Republic of NIGERIA, Senator Oluremi Tinubu, has pledged to reach the grassroots in all the states of the Federation to uplift and ease the burden of Nigerians through her pet project, The Renewed Hope Initiative. Oluremi Tinubu said this at the Aso Rock Villa in Abuja, where she met…
The house of representatives, has approved President Bola Tinubu request for N500 billion to provide palliatives against fuel subsidy removal, the House of Representatives approved the request. The House on Thursday approved the request by amending the Supplementary budget, thereby granting the request by the president. It would be recalled that President Tinubu had in…
The Senate has commenced screening of the recently appointed Service Chiefs. President Bola Tinubu, had on Monday, June 19 appointed new service chiefs in the country. President Bola Tinubu had in a letter to the senate on Monday, requested that the Upper Chamber confirm the nomination of the Service Chiefs. Chief of Army Staff who…
A Federal Capital Territory High Court, Abuja, has ordered the Department of State Services (DSS) to charge the suspended Central Bank Of Nigeria Governor, Godwin Emefiele to court within one week or release him. The court gave the order during hearing in the fundamental human rights suit Emefiele filed to challenge his arrest and detention…
The President of Nigeria, President Bola Tinubu has reaffirmed to Nigerians of his commitment to making citizens’ lives better. The President re-echoed this assurance while receiving the Class of 1999 Governors, who called on him at the State House, Abuja. As the Governor of Lagos State at that time, the visit was nostalgic in nature,…
