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Members of the National Assembly who were scheduled to resume next Tuesday, September 15 after a two-month annual vacation, will now resume on Tuesday, September 29, according to a notice issued late Friday afternoon.   The laconic notice entitled: “Special Announcement” by the acting clerk to the National Assembly, Ojo Amos Olatunde, gave no specific […]

The Comptroller General, Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), Mr. Muhammad Babandede, has given travel advisory for China, Europe and North America bound passengers due to COVID-19. Babandede gave the advisory in a statement through the Service Public Relations Officer (SPRO) Mr Sunday James on Friday in Abuja.   He said that the directives were necessary to […]

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo says Nigeria is slowly becoming a failed state and a basket case that urgently needs to be pulled from the brink of collapse, Punch reported on Saturday.   He said this in Abuja on Thursday while delivering a speech titled, ‘Moving Nigeria Away from Tipping Over’ at a consultative dialogue attended […]

For the third time since about the middle of August, the Department of State Security has invited Dr. Obadiah Mailafia to appear before it on Monday, September 14.   This is a continuation of his grilling by the spy Police over his disclosure on a radio programme that he and some leaders were informed by […]

  There is some disquiet in Nigeria’s economic policy circles over a dispute between the central bank and a think-tank that has for years proffered guidance to those on the corridors of power on how to run the economy.   A series of concerns raised by The Nigerian Economic Summit Group on some monetary policies […]

  Ishaq Abubakar, who was scheduled to fly to Dubai had his flight aborted and was handed over to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission after he was arrest with 2,886 Automated Teller Machine cards and four Subscriber Identification Module cards concealed inside cartons of noodles.   The intending passenger, with passport number A08333717 was […]

    The Nigeria Immigration Service on Friday issued fresh travel protocols for passengers travelling from Nigeria to China, Europe and North America, and warned intending passengers to strictly comply with the guidelines to avoid being denied departure or being repatriation, the agency said in a statement.   The statement by NCS spokesman, Sunday James, […]

  Prominent leaders from the North-Central geopolitical zone have announced their exit from the Arewa Consultative Forum, citing the worsening insecurity in northern Nigeria, the Punch reported Thursday.   The leaders announced the formation of the North Central Peoples Forum as a platform to fight insecurity and marginalisation.   Addressing journalists in Abuja on Wednesday, […]

The Nigerian government on Monday stamped a note of finality on the removal of subsidy on petrol, the Nation newspaper reported Tuesday.   It said the adjustment of tariff on electricity is driven by the need to guarantee efficiency in power supply.   The price of petrol went up from N138.63 to between N162 and […]

Abubakar Malami, Nigeria’s Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, has declared he would be glad to testify before the Justice Ayo Salami-led Presidential panel, if he is summoned. The Presidential Panel has since July been probing allegations of wrong doing leveled against the former Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Ibrahim Magu, who […]

  President Donald Trump of the United States has been nominated for the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize, for the second time.  Norwegian politician, Christian Tybring-Gjedde, made the nomination, and related to the ‘historic peace agreement’ between Israel and the United Arab Emirates. ‘As it is expected other Middle Eastern countries will follow in the footsteps […]

Despite repeated denials of culpability in the corruption and financial recklessness and mismanagement in the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), a new trove of documentary evidence obtained exclusively by Huhuonline.com paints a disgusting picture of the Chairman, Senate Committee on Niger Delta Affairs, Peter Nwaoboshi (PDP Delta-North), neck-deep in the unfolding scandal in the wake […]