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The striking aviation unions on Tuesday vowed to have a total shutdown of the airports after seven days as they staged a procession to the international wing of the Murtala Muhammad International Airport (MMIA). Security operatives also took over the venue of the protest where the unions converged on Monday, the first day of their […]

A Magistrate Court in Asaba, Delta State has ordered the remand of a dismissed police Inspector, Ubi Ebri for alleged murder. Ebri was arraigned on Wednesday on one count of murder, in charge number CMA/135c/2023 brought by the Commissioner of Police. Ebri had on April 5, 2023 “along Asaba-Ugbolu road within the Asaba Magisterial District […]

The House of Representatives adhoc Committee investigating alleged loss of over $2.4 billion in revenue from illegal sale of 48 million barrels of crude oil in 2015 has lamented that the Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami and the Minister of Finance, Zainab Ahmed are not cooperating with the committee. This is as the […]

The presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in the February 25 election, Peter Obi has said he does not have dual citizenship. This is coming on the heels of controversies trailing Bola Tinubu, who allegedly acquired citizenship of another country other than Nigerian. David Hundeyin, over the weekend, had sent Nigerian internet users into […]

Rates Spike as Nigeria Raises N369bn from Bonds Sales The Federal Government of Nigeria (FGN) raised N369 billion from the local debt capital market from fresh bond auction sales. The detail showed that auctioned bonds attracted mixed spot rates, though investors show a preference for longer-dated securities. MarketForces Africa reported that Debt Management Office (DMO) […]

Naira: Nigeria’s Foreign Exchange Rates Gap Collapses The gap between the Nigerian naira exchange rates at the investors, exporters’ window and parallel market printed lower at N278 per United States (US) dollar. Creating speculative opportunity, the FX spread had printed above N300 on each US dollar earlier in the year when the parallel market rate […]

The Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos has vacated its bench warrant directing the Commissioner of Police to arrest the Nigerian Airspace Management Authority, (NAMA) Managing Director, Matthew Pwajok. Justice Babs Kuewumi issued the bench warrant for Pwajok’s arrest in November 2022, for failing to make available some documents in the ongoing N2.8 billion […]

…IG Tasks Officers On Professionalism, Respect For Fundamental Rights A policeman, Adejoh Siaka, has been demoted from the rank of Inspector to Sergeant, following complaints and findings from video evidence widely circulated on Sunday, April 9, 2023, on social media. He was sanctioned for assault, discreditable conduct, and incivility to members of the public at […]

The Special Fraud Unit of the Nigeria Police Force, Milverton Ikoyi, Lagos, has arraigned two property developers, Msheilia Julius Silas and Sabo Mohamed Jimeta, who allegedly swindled a Nigerian businessman, Abubakar Baba Zango to the tune of N800 million before a Federal High Court in Lagos. Also arraigned alongside the two defendants was a limited […]

Seven States did not benefit from the Federal Government’s N45.3 billion Nigeria COVID-19 Action Recovery and Economic Stimulus Programme (NG-Cares). The N45.3 billion COVID-19 Stimulus package was released to State Governments to mitigate their expenses at the height of the pandemic. However, Benue, Ebonyi, Kogi, Taraba, Enugu, Ogun and Imo States did not get reimbursement […]

The All Progressives Congress, APC, Governorship candidate in Adamawa, Senator Aishatu Dahiru (Binani) has denied allegations that she gave a sum of N2 billion as a bribe to some staff of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to declare her as Governor-elect. Recall that the electoral umpire had on Sunday suspended collation for the Saturday […]

*Gives Commission 21-Day Ultimatum To Furnish Document An Effurun based legal firm J.L OGHENEVWAERHE OJUKOKO & ASSOCIATES has written a letter to the INEC Chairman, Prof Mahmood Yakubu requesting for the Certified True Copies of certain Public documents within his Custody as INEC Chairman on assumption of office in 2015 to date. The law firm brought […]