Meetings of the All Progressives Congress’s (APC) National Caucus and National Executive Committee (NEC) are scheduled to take place the following month. Festus Fuanter, the acting national secretary for the APC, confirmed the new development on the Twitter handle for the party on Friday evening. He stated that the meetings would take place in Abuja on August 2 and 3, respectively. Following the departure of its former national chairman, Abdullahi Adamu, and its national secretary,...
Senator Adamu Bulkachuwa filed a suit against the Attorney-General of the Federation, the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offenses Commission, the Department of State Services, and the Nigerian Police Force, and a Federal High Court in Abuja set October 25 for judgment. Bulkachuwa reportedly stated publicly during the 9th Senate’s valedictory session that he influenced his wife, Justice Zainab Bulkachuwa’s decisions while she was the President of the Court of Appeal. Between 2014 and...
The Internally Displaced Persons camp is located at North Bank, a suburb of Makurdi, the state capital. Benue State Police Command agents have detained four suspected child traffickers who were operating nearby. In a statement made available to journalists in Makurdi on Wednesday, the state police public relations officer, Catherine Anene, revealed this. Anene named the alleged traffickers, including Member Friday, the wife and accomplice of the kingpin, Stephen Terungwa, Sughter Akegh, and Atom Gideon....
In the most recent auction on July 26, 2023, investors bid N384 billion in one-year Treasury Bills at an interest rate of 12.15 percent annually. Due to investors’ continued oversubscription of the short-term risk-free investment, only N255 billion was distributed. The information was gleaned from the most recent auction report for Nigerian Treasury Bills that were sold during the week that the one-year note matures on July 25, 2024. expanding inflation Nigeria’s inflation rate increased...
The Department of State Services (DSS), a secret police agency, has come under fire from the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) for its agents’ altercation with members of the Nigerian Correctional Service (NCS) on Tuesday at the Federal High Court in Lagos. The argument centred on which agency maintains custody of suspended CBN Governor Godwin Emefiele after the court granted him bail. The troubled CBN governor was then taken into custody again by the DSS. When...
The Federal High Court in Lagos has granted bail in the sum of N20m to Godwin Emefiele, suspended governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). Nicholas Oweibo, the presiding judge, in a ruling on Tuesday, said the charges against Emefiele are bailable. The bail was granted with one surety. Emefiele had pleaded not guilty to the two-count charge bordering on alleged illegal possession of firearms preferred against him. More to follow…
The Managing Director/CEO of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Mohammed Bello-Koko, has been dragged to the Federal High Court Kaduna over allegations of fraud and financial misconduct. Bello-Koko is also accused of gross abuse of office, misappropriation of public funds and money laundering while serving as Executive Director, Finance and Administration as well as MD/CEO of the NPA between January 2015 till date. In a suit filed by Comrade Isah the Buta, the National Coordinator...
Tinubu’s seven wonders in seven weeks That President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has ramped up the engine of governance in Nigeria and hit the waves immediately he was sworn in on May 29, 2023, is not news anymore. From Abuja to Zurich, the story is the same: a new sheriff is in town and he is in a haste to give the giant of Africa a new lease of life. In the seven weeks he has...
Eight people were detained, according to the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps agents, on Tuesday in Ajah Beach in Lagos State while being suspected of transporting stolen petroleum products. According to reports, the suspects were captured during a routine patrol of the agency’s state command’s anti-vandal unit. Abolurin Oluwaseun, the command’s public relations officer, revealed that the product was thought to be adulterated diesel. “The operatives of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps,...
Vice-President Kashim Shettima is presiding over the monthly National Economic Council (NEC) meeting at the Council Chambers of the State House, Abuja. Thursday’s meeting of the constitutional economic advisory body of government is the second in the history of the President Bola Tinubu-led administration since its inauguration on May 29, 2023. NEC is made up of the 36 governors of the federation, ministers in charge of finance, Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN),...
