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The investigational hearing on the contentious launch of Air Nigeria, Nigeria’s national airline, by the previous administration presided over by Muhammadu Buhari has been rescheduled by the House of Representatives Committee on Aviation. The hearing was originally scheduled to take place on Monday in Abuja, and the committee had invited all pertinent parties. However, most of the stakeholders’ representatives had already left the location before Nnolim Nnaji, the committee’s chairman, arrived about two hours late....

Kelly Nwogu, an estate developer, was remanded on Friday by the Federal High Court in Lagos for allegedly defrauding a church of N65 million. The Police Special Fraud Unit has filed three charges against the defendant: conspiracy, obtaining under false pretense, and fraudulent conversion. Nwogu was charged in court alongside Livelihood Homes Limited, his business, and other suspects who are still at large. The defendants and other people who are still at large committed the...

As part of Governor Peter Mbah’s efforts to put an end to sit-at-home protests in the state, 67 Biafra separatists were detained in various Enugu State locations and have since been remanded in prison custody. The State Government allegedly ordered the combined security agencies to put an end to the sit-at-home movement and all Biafra agitations in the state, and five members of the group were also allegedly murdered by these agencies.   According to...

PDP National Assembly members-to-be have been urged to carry out their duties in accordance with the Constitution by Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, the party’s presidential candidate for the 2023 election. Additionally, he urged them to avoid joining the “rubber-stamp legislative arm or those who might want to rule as dictators.” Speaking at a one-day retreat for elected National Assembly members on Saturday at the Banquet Hall of the Government House in Bauchi, the former vice president...

The All Progressives Congress (APC) crisis may not be over yet as Dr. Salihu Lukman, a member of the National Working Committee (NWC), has stated that no one could stop him from exposing wrongdoings within the party. Lukman, the APC National Vice Chairman for the North West, claimed that Senators Abdullahi Adamu and Iyiola Omisore, the party’s National Chairman and Secretary, had bullied and intimidated him because of his opinion of how the party is...

David Nyor, a 30-year-old Benue State University alumnus who travelled four days’ worth of distance from Makurdi to celebrate President Bola Tinubu’s inauguration, has arrived at the APC’s national headquarters. A weary Nyor finally made it to Abuja on Friday night after setting out on May 29, the same day Tinubu was sworn in. Around 2:30 p.m., the coordinator of the Benue Youth Volunteers made his way to the almost empty party secretariat to make...

The creation of mobile courts has received the approval of Kano State Governor Yusuf Abba in order to ensure prompt prosecution of phone snatchers in the state. His press secretary, Alhaji Bature Tofa, said in a statement that the Special Joint Task Force would work with the mobile courts to try those who had been apprehended. After eight years of darkness due to the lamps being turned off, Yusuf claimed that major streets in the...

On Friday, a State High Court that was sitting in Makurdi, the capital city of Benue State, confirmed that Iyorchia Ayu had been removed from his position as the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party. Ayu’s membership in the party was also declared invalid by the judge who was presiding over the case, Maurice Ikpambese.   Ikpambese stated in his verdict that in accordance with article 8(9) of the PDP constitution, Ayu was no...

Hon. Yusuf Zailani, Speaker of the Kaduna State House of Assembly, has praised the choice of Femi Gbajabiamila to serve as President Bola Tinubu’s chief of staff. In a statement released on Friday in Kaduna by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Ibrahim Danfulani, Zailani described the appointment as merit-based and well-deserved given the enviable background of the current Speaker of the House of Representatives in administration, diplomacy, and academia. “I want to commend...