The Socio-Economic Rights And Accountability Project has said that it would challenge the Nigerian Government in court over the recent Companies and Allied Matters Act 2020 signed into law by President Muhammadu Buhari. The law, since assented to, has generated controversy in the country with rights groups rejecting it. In […]
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How Politicians, NURTW, Others Shared 774,000 Job Allocation
The Special Public Work Programme being supervised by Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Festus Keyamo, has been allocated through slots to politicians and some groups. Keyamo had engaged in a brawl with federal lawmakers over the allocation of slots to politicians in the country. However, with the commencement […]
Chinese loans: Reps grill Amaechi, Ahmed, others today
The House of Representatives will on Monday (today) grill ministers and other top officials of the Federal Government over Nigeria’s external borrowings, especially from China. The House Committee on Committee on Treaties, Protocols and Agreements had summoned the Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed; Minister of Communications […]
Lagos to demolish illegal structures
The Lagos State Task Force on Environmental and Special Offences Unit said it had concluded plans to demolish illegal structures on the Idera land scheme in the Ibeju Lekki area of the state. The Chairman of the agency, Olayinka Egbeyemi, on Sunday, said the structures would be destroyed after the […]
US falsified evidence against Kashamu, a British court ruled, says lawyer
The lawyer for the late Senator Buruji Kashamu, Mr Ajibola Oluyede, said on Sunday that the narcotics case against his client in the United States was a case of mistaken identity. He said the British court refused to hand Kashamu over to the US for prosecution after an English magistrate, […]
Killings: Southern Kaduna leaders want me to grease their palms, but i’ll not because they are trouble-makers, says El-Rufai
Nasir el-Rufai, the Kaduna State Governor, says Southern Kaduna leaders accusing him of taking sides want to be “appeased” but notes that his administration will not grease the palms of trouble-makers. “I have no time for nonsense. I will not appease criminals. I will not appease idle people who have […]
Biggest container vessel berths at Onne ports Nigeria
The Nigerian Ports Authority has expressed excitement at the successful berthing of the biggest container vessel to ever call at any Nigerian port. The Maerskline Stardelhorn vessel which boasts of an overall length of 300 metres and 48 metres in width was received at the Federal Ocean Terminal, Onne in […]
Mailafia spoke the truth, says surety
A peace advocate in Jos, Rev. Gideon Para-Mallam, has given reasons why he stood surety for a former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Dr Obadiah Mailafia, following his interrogation by the Department of State Services. According to him, the former presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress […]
2.4 million households to benefit from FG’s stimulus package – Presidential Aide
To ensure food security for citizens, at least 2.4 million households will benefit from the Federal Government’s post COVID-19 stimulus package, a presidential aide says. Dr Andrew Kwasari, Senior Special Assistant (SSA), to the President on Agriculture, disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), on […]
COVID-19: Nigeria records 298 new cases
Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has reported 298 new cases of the COVID-19, bringing the total number of infections in the country to 49,068. The NCDC made this known on its official twitter handle late on Sunday. According to it, one death was recorded in the country. The health […]