Tensions over public finance deepened yesterday as lawmakers scrutinised INEC’s N873.78 billion proposal for 2027, recommended sanctions against non-compliant agencies and questioned delays in Treasury fund releases. The Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof Joash Amupitan, who presented the proposal before a joint committee of the Senate and House of Representatives on […]
Vice-President Kashim Shettima on Thursday departed Abuja for Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to represent President Bola Tinubu at the 2026 African Union (AU) Summit. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the theme of the summit is: ‘Assuring Sustainable Water Availability and Safe Sanitation Systems to Achieve the Goals of Agenda 2063’. It will focus […]
Russia has blocked the popular messaging service WhatsApp over its failure to comply with local legislation, the Kremlin said Thursday, urging its 100 million Russian users to switch to a domestic alternative. Moscow has for months been trying to shift Russian users onto Max, a domestic messaging service that lacks end-to-end encryption and that activists […]
Manchester United co‑owner and INEOS founder Sir Jim Ratcliffe has issued an apology following backlash over comments he made during an interview with Sky’s economics and data editor, Ed Conway, in which he said the UK had been “colonised by immigrants.” In a statement released after the interview, Ratcliffe acknowledged that his choice of words […]
The Governor of Abia State, Dr. Alex Chioma Otti, will on Friday, February 13, inaugurate the newly reconstructed Igwu River Bridge, popularly known as the Omenuko Bridge, located at Ozu Abam in Arochukwu Local Government Area of the state. Following the inauguration, the Ozu Abam community will host a grand civic reception in honour of […]
A chieftain of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), Buba Galadima, has said former Governor of Kano State, Senator Rabiu Kankwaso, was a victim of Sharia. Galadima told Arise TV’s The Morning Show on Thursday, monitored by our correspondent, shortly after the United States Congress received a bill seeking to punish Kwankwaso and some groups […]
Former Arsenal midfielder Thomas Partey has been charged with two additional counts of rape, the Crown Prosecution Service has confirmed. Partey, 32, has denied raping two women and sexually assaulting a third and is due to stand trial in November. Prosecutors have now authorised the new allegations, bringing further charges against the Ghanaian international. He […]
Justice Obiora Egwatu on Thursday stepped aside from the Federal High Court’s high-profile asset forfeiture suit involving former Attorney-General Abubakar Malami, SAN, and two others, citing personal reasons. The judge made the announcement shortly after the parties’ counsel entered appearances. “For personal reasons, and in the best interest of justice, I will recuse myself from […]
President Cyril Ramaphosa is set to deliver his State of the Nation Address at Cape Town City Hall tonight, where he is expected to outline government priorities and interventions for the year ahead. Speaking ahead of the address, Ramaphosa acknowledged growing public sentiment that the country is moving in the right direction, while conceding that […]
The Dangote Petroleum Refinery has reached its full designed capacity of 650,000 barrels of crude oil per day (bpd), marking what the company described as a historic milestone and making it the first refinery globally to achieve full nameplate capacity in a single train of that scale. In a statement issued on Wednesday, February 11, […]
