Several Nigerian lawyers have registered their discontent over the decision of the leadership of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) to include Governor Nasir El-Rufai as a guest speaker in the association’s forthcoming annual general conference. Mr El-Rufai, the Kaduna State governor, is one of the speakers at the conference which holds August 26-29. He is […]

The consumer price index (CPI) which measures inflation increased by 13.22 percent (year-on-year) in August 2020. This is 0.40 percent points higher than the rate recorded in July 2020 (12.82 percent), the National Bureau of Statistics said in a Report just released The increases were driven by food, border closure and energy prices . The […]

POULTRY Association of Nigeria (PAN) has urged the Federal Government to encourage private sector investments in agriculture by pegging interest rate on borrowing at a maximum of three per cent. The association also urged the government to allow free duty charge for the importation of poultry machines that are not produced locally rather than the […]

The National Assembly on Friday postponed resumption of plenary sessions by two weeks. The Acting Clerk to the National Assembly, Arc. Olatunde Ojo, in a statement in Abuja, said lawmakers would now resume on Tuesday 29th September, 2020. It will be recalled that the Senate and the House of Representatives had on Thursday July 23, […]

The Federal Government has declared Sept. 16 as National Identity Day and has supported the enrolment of Nigerians for Digital Identity (ID) across the country. Dr Isa Pantami, Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, said this in a statement signed by Mrs Uwa Suleiman, his spokesperson on Tuesday, in Abuja. Pantami reminded Nigerians of the […]

With few weeks to the gubernatorial elections in Edo and Ondo States, stakeholders have expressed worry over the political tension in both states which has aggravated in recent days. They have subsequently urged the politicians and their political parties to tread cautiously in order not to plunge the states into anarchy. Join Marshall Anthoni Ononye […]

Mal Shehu Ladan took a boat across what was, until this month, a growing rice paddy. Now, like thousands of hectares of rice in Nigeria’s Kebbi state, it is under water. “Almost all my farm has been flooded. I didn’t harvest any rice,” Ladan told Reuters. “It’s going to be devastating.” Floods early this month […]

President Muhammadu Buhari has hailed the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Boss Mustapha, for organising a successful Ministers’ Retreat at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. Buhari, in a letter yesterday, said he was “very impressed” with the SGF’s performance at the retreat, hailing his speech on the second day. A two-day First Year […]

Deputy President of the Senate and Chairman, Senate Ad hoc Committee on Review of the 1999 Constitution, Ovie Omo-Agege, has said that the committee is not under pressure from external forces, contrary rumours. In a statement yesterday by his Special Adviser on Media, Yomi Odunuga, the senator assured that the panel would not bow to […]

The Nigeria Export Promotion Council (NEPC) has pledged its support for the enhancement of Ekiti State’s non-oil agricultural crop with export potential. The state’s Commissioner for Investment, Trade and Industry, Mr. Muyiwa Olumilua, who disclosed this, yesterday, said the NEPC had asked the state to select a single crop for which it has the greatest […]

Operations of Arik Air were on Monday shut down by the aviation unions over alleged non payment of staff salaries since April after placing 90 per cent of the workforce on compulsory leave and other anti-labour practices. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), reports that unions included the National Union of Air Transport Employees (NUATE) […]

Russian police have traced opposition politician Alexei Navalny’s movements and what he drank before falling ill in Siberia last month, and are trying to locate a witness who has left the country, the interior ministry said on Friday. The ministry said it was preparing another request for legal assistance from Germany, where Navalny was airlifted […]