N876bn NDDC 2023 Budget Passed As Senate Approves N576m For Lauretta Onochie’s Office
The office of the chairman of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Lauretta Onochie, gets N576 million running cost in the commission’s N876 billion 2023 budget passed by the Nigerian Senate on Tuesday. This is even as 12 board members…
Assault: Court Orders Police To Complete Investigation in 48 hours, Grants Seun Kuti Bail
A Magistrate Court sitting in Yaba on Tuesday granted bail to Afrobeat musician, Seun Kuti was charged for assault on Tuesday before Magistrate Adeola Olatunbosun who also ordered the police to complete their investigation within 48 hours. The son of…
23 North West Support Groups Tackle Jaji, Insist He’s Opportunist, Played No Significant Role in Tinubu’s Victory
No fewer than 23 North West Support Groups for Asiwaju, have rejected the claims by Hon. Aminu Sani that he was responsible for the votes President-elect Bola Ahmed Tinubu got in North West and Zamfara State during the February 25…
BREAKING: Police Arraign Fela’s Son, Seun Kuti, For Assault
Nigerian musician, Oluseun Anikulapo Kuti, who is popularly known Seun Kuti, has been arraigned by the Lagos State command of the Nigeria Police Force for assault. Seun, who is the youngest son of Afrobeat pioneer Fela Kuti, leads his father’s…
Leave Yari Alone, Face Your Criminal Charges, Arewa Defenders Hit Bono-Obla
The Arewa Defenders Forum has warned ex-presidential aide, Okoi Obono-Obla, a former Senior Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on Prosecutions to steer clear of former Zamfara State Governor, Abdulaziz Yari and instead face his criminal charges of falsification, forgery…
US Imposes Visa Ban On 2023 Nigerian Elections Riggers
The United States has taken steps to impose visa restrictions on specific individuals in Nigeria for undermining the democratic process during the just concluded 2023 general elections. The US Secretary of State, Anthony Blinken, disclosed this on Monday. In a…
10th NASS Leadership: South East Group Urges President-elect Not To Be Entrapped In Counterproductive, Self-serving Conflicts
…Cautions Politicians Over Regional Tensions The South-East Unity Movement has expressed deep worries over the direction the country is being pushed by power hungry regionalist-politicians, urging the President-elect, Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu, not to be enmeshed in a “counterproductive, self-serving…
Campaign Of Calumny On Peace Corps Ownership Preposterous, Misleading – Official
The Nigerian Peace Corps has described as misleading, ridiculous and preposterous, the on going campaign of calumny, which is aimed at misleading Nigerians on the status of the Nigerian Peace Corps bill and the actors, whose efforts brought the corps…
ALGON Takes Vital Decisions At Its 34th NEC Meeting In Lagos, Decries Arbitrary Dissolution of Elected LG Executive Leadership
The Association Of Local Governments Of Nigeria (ALGON) has taken vital decisions at its 34th National Executive Council (NEC) meeting held in Lagos State. The NEC frowned at the illegality of states dissolving democratically elected Local Government Council Chairmen by…
CNPP Wades Into Labour Party Crisis, Counsels Warring Factions, Says Party Bigger Than Individuals
Conference Of Nigeria Political Parties (CNPP) has waded into the ongoing crisis in the Labour Party (LP), calling on warring factions in the leadership crisis “to find common grounds and sustain its new position as a third force in the…
Oduwa Frontiers Says Plot To Interfere With Independence, Autonomy Of 10th National Assembly Targeted At President-elect
Advises APC To Jettison Zoning, Throw NASS Leadership Contest Open A group, the Oduwa Frontiers, has called on the All Progressives Congress (APC) National Working Committee (NWC) to rescind its zoning proposal, alleging that the move was targeted at painting…
