• Begins work on uncompleted secretariat buildings • FG appoints Ekiti First Lady WASH ambassador Ekiti State Governor Kayode Fayemi yesterday said that all projects abandoned by previous administrations would be completed by his administration for public use in a bid to put an end to the ugly trend of project abandonment in the state. […]

A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja in Suit No. FHC/ABJ/CS/1136/2019 has ordered the Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON) to take over the business and assets of Bedko Nigeria Limited and Buba Galadima. Bedko Nigeria Limited and Buba Galadima owe AMCON about N900m through a loan purchased during the first phase of Eligible Bank […]

AN employee of the Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC) was yesterday afternoon stabbed to death in Kabusa area of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja, while one other colleague of the deceased escaped with serious injuries following an attack by assailants. The AEDC workers were on duty disconnecting the electricity of customers who failed to […]

The Minister of Finance, Zainab Ahmed, has said that the $12 million Nigeria Sovereign Investment Authority (NSIA) – Lagos University Teaching Hospital LUTH Cancer Centre (NLCC) will help to stem the usual practice of medical tourism in the country and treat 80 cancer patients daily. The minister, who spoke yesterday during the commissioning of three […]

Former National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Olisah Metuh, and his firm, Destra Investments Limited, have been sentenced to seven years in prison. This was after he was found guilty of count one, two and three of the seven-count charge levelled against them by the Federal Government. Justice Okon Abang of […]

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THE Court of Appeal sitting in Ibadan on Monday fixed April 1 to hear an appeal filled by the Oyo State Government challenging a court order not to dissolve the 33 local government chairmen and 35 LCDA chairmen. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Justice Aderonke Aderemi of the Oyo State High Court […]

Federal High Court in Abuja has rejected objections by Niger and Kogi states to the execution of a judgment which granted financial autonomy to the judiciary. The January 13, 2014 judgment given by Justice Adeniyi Ademola (then of the Federal High Court, Abuja), in a suit by the Judiciary Staff Union of Nigeria (JUSUN), prohibited […]

Zamfara State Governor Bello Matawalle has donated N10 million to victims of Yan katako market fire in Gusau. Matawalle, who commiserated with the victims, urged them to consider the disaster as an act of God. “God knows why this happened. I urge you to consider it as a test from our creator, and I pray […]

The Nigeria Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB), which enforces the Federal Government’s policy on the use domestic human and material resources in their operations, has said its major challenge is the unwillingness of Nigerian firms to comply with the policy. ‘Nigerians are the cause of our problems at the board’, Manager of Capacity Building, […]

Kano State Commissioner of Environment Kabiru Getso has said plans are on pass a law to end the indiscriminate felling of trees to prevent desertification. He said the states will plant one million seeds in 2020. The commissioner spoke yesterday when the House of Assembly Committee on Environment visited his office. According to him, the […]

A Federal High Court in Abuja has commenced the delivery of judgment for February 25, 2020, in the trial of former spokesman of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) Olisa Metuh. Metuh, a former National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and his firm, Dextra Investment Limited are accused receiving N400million from the office […]