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The Nigerian Union of Allied Health Professionals has pleaded with President Bola Tinubu to think about appointing a seasoned administrator to serve as the country’s next minister of health. The medical community objected to the practise of successive governments favouring medical officers and claimed that it must end because the doctors selected during the previous two decades were inadequate. Dr. Obinna Ogbonna, president of NUAHP, made the call in an exclusive interview during the eighth...

Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party and Peter Obi of the Labour Party, who was a former coordinator in the disbanded All Progressives Congress Campaign Council, have been urged to withdraw their cases from the election petition tribunal and support President Bola Tinubu’s efforts to form a government of national unity. On Thursday, Ogbole made the appeal during a press conference in Abuja. “Even though we are conscious that it is the fundamental right...

Senator Kashim Shettima, vice president, met with Bill Gates, co-chairman of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Aliko Dangote, chairman of the Dangote Foundation, and members of the Nigerian Governors Forum (NGF) on Thursday.   At the State House in Abuja, the meeting, which started at 11:43 a.m., was held in private. The event is a part of the schedule for Mr. Gates’ visit to Nigeria and the Niger Republic.   The meeting’s agenda is...

On Friday, the departing Chiefs of Defence Staff, General Lucky Irabor, Lt. Gen. Farouk Yahaya, and Vice Admiral Awwal Gambo of the Nigerian Navy, will transfer over to their successors. But today (Thursday), Air Marshal Oludayo Amao, the departing Chief of Air Staff, will take over command to his replacement. The immediate resignation of the service chiefs was announced by the president, Bola Tinubu, on Monday. Along with their replacements, the President named Maj. Gen....

Podcast Court overturns Amaechi and Cole’s arrest warrants on June 21, 2023 Tonye Cole and Rotimi Aechi Tonye Cole and Rotimi Aechi   A warrant of arrest issued for Rotimi Amaechi, a former minister of transportation, Tonye Cole, an APC candidate for governor of Rivers State, Augustine Wokocha, and three other individuals has been overturned by a Port Harcourt court of appeals. Remember that on May 17, 2023, a Port Harcourt High Court presided over...

Some of the documents that Peter Obi, the Labour Party’s (LP) presidential candidate for the 2023 election, asked to produce as exhibits in the Presidential Election Tribunal are missing. On Tuesday, INEC made the announcement in front of the court in Abuja. In a petition with the filing number CA/PEPC/03/2023, Mr. Obi and the Labour Party (LP) ask the court to overturn President Bola Tinubu’s election on February 25. The All Progressives Congress (APC), INEC,...

Abdulkarim Chukkol, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission’s interim chairman, called on law enforcement agencies in West Africa to work closely together. Chukkol made the announcement while opening an EFCC-sponsored peer exchange programme for Ghana’s Economic and Organised Crime Office at the Rockview Hotel in Abuja.   He said that an alliance of this kind will be helpful in the region’s fight against economic and financial crime. He declared: “This study tour is of utmost...

Kaduna State’s governor, Uba Sani, has stated that his administration will keep granting the state’s 23 local government areas financial autonomy for growth. The governor made this statement on Monday while hosting the 23 council chairmen at the Sir Kashim Ibrahim Government House in Kaduna, the state capital, as part of a formal visit.   Sani pleaded with the council chairmen to avoid using political, religious, or tribal allegiances when interacting with the populace. He...

An ex-commissioner claims that from June 2015 to March 2023, the administration of the outgoing governor of Kano State, Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, spent more than N20 billion on 111,687 needy students for post-graduate scholarships abroad in 14 different nations, five private universities, the Nigerian Law School, and other internal universities. This information was provided in a statement from Muhammad Garba, the former commissioner for information and internal affairs in Ganduje’s administration, in response to a...