A report has arisen on how a whopping N2.8 trillion was defrauded from Easterners as ramson to bandits; unpatriotic security operatives on roadblocks, corrupt revenue agents, and other criminal elements including non-state actors in three years. The report released by the International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law (Intersociety) on July 31, 2023,…
The Nigeria House of Representatives has said it will approve the new minimum wage once it is transmitted to the National Assembly by the President. The spokesman of the House, Akin Rotimi in a statement lauded President Bola Ahmed Tinubu for the announcement of the planned upward review of the national minimum wage. Mr Rotimi…
The Presidential Steering Committee on Palliatives, encompassing the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC and the Trade Union Congress, TUC, of Nigeria, is currently meeting with the Federal Government team at the Chief of Staff Conference Hall, at Aso Rock, Abuja. Recall that the organized labor fumed out of the meeting on Friday last week, asserting that…
The Nigerian Senate has commenced the screening of the first batch of ministerial nominees forwarded by President Bola Tinubu. The screening began on Monday afternoon during plenary, which had already begun upon the entrance of Senate President Godswill Akpabio. On Thursday, July 27, 2023, the Senate unveiled the President’s first batch of cabinet nominees, as…
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu will prepare a broadcast to the nation today, Monday, July 31, 2023, at 7 pm. POLITICS NIGERIA reports that the statement was made by presidential spokesman Dele Alake in a statement on Monday morning. Alake said that television, radio stations, and other electronic media outlets should hook up to the network…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 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,…
President Bola Tinubu has written to the National Assembly seeking an amendment to the 2022 supplementary budget Act to allow the Federal Government to source N500 billion for palliative to cushion the impact of subsidy removal. The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Tajudeen Abbas, who read the president’s letter during plenary on Wednesday, said…
The President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, President Bola Tinubu writes to the upper chamber house seeking the confirmation of the appointments of the Chief of Defence Staff and Service Chiefs. President of the Senate Godswill Akpabio while reading the message sent at the commencement of Plenary on Tuesday stressed that the actions was…
The President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio, has made public the formation of standing committees which are Appropriations, Public Accounts, Ethics, and Public Petitions and Establishment. Senator Solomon Adeola will be chairman for the Appropriations Committee, while Senator Ahmed Wadada will chairman for Public Accounts Committee, according to Akpabio, who spoke at Tuesday’s plenary session….
The President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Bola Ahmed Tinubu has returned to Nigeria after attending the two-day 63rd Ordinary Session of the Authority of Heads of State and Government of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) in Guinea Bissau. President Tinubu emerged as the new Chairman of ECOWAS less than 45…
President Bola Tinubu has succeeded Umaro Embalo as the new Chairman of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). Tinubu takes over from President Umaro Embalo of Guinea Bissau as ECOWAS chair. “We will take democracy seriously, Democracy is very tough but it is the best form of government,” he said upon his emergence…
Mr Felix Hassan Hyat, Kaduna State chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has called on leaders and stakeholders in Nigeria to ensure they promote peace and unity in their utterances and actions. Speaking in Kaduna on Friday during a one-day roundtable on religion and politics, he lamented that former governor Nasir El-Rufai could lower…
