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Senate Investigates Delay In Issuance Of International Passport
The Senate Committee on Interior is to urgently investigate the delay in the issuance and renewal of international passports by the Nigeria Immigration Service, NIS. The committee will turn in the report in two weeks. The resolution of the upper legislative Chamber followed a motion which was sponsored by Senator Lilian Ekwunife representing Anambra Central Senatorial District at a plenary on...
Why Nigerians Oppose Removal Of Subsidy – Moghalu
A former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Kingsley Moghalu has claimed that Nigerians are opposed to subsidy removal because they fear it would be stolen by corrupt government officials. He gave the assertion on Wednesday in a post via his verified Twitter handle. Recall that controversies are trailing the federal government’s planned removal of subsidy by June...
Presidential Election Tribunal Begins Hearing May 8
Next week Monday, the Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal will begin hearing the petitions challenging the declaration of Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress, APC, as Nigeria’s President-elect. This means the legal battle by candidates disputing the announced results of the 2023 presidential poll will commence on May 8. The date was confirmed by the National Legal Adviser of the All...
Buhari To Attend King Charles III’ Coronation In London
President Muhammadu Buhari will join other world leaders invited to attend the coronation of Charles III and his wife, Camilla, as His Majesty The King and Her Majesty The Queen Consort of the United Kingdom respectively. The coronation will take place on Saturday, May 6 while the President was expected to depart Abuja on Wednesday. According to a statement issued by...
Zamfara Governor-Elect Inaugurates Transition Committee
Zamfara State Governor-elect, Dauda Lawal Dare has inaugurated his 60-man transition committee which is headed by a former Inspector General of Police, IGP, Mohammed Dahiru Abubakar. Inaugurating the committee, the Governor-elect said that the members of the committee were carefully selected considering their track records, saying that he has confidence in the committee as it will carefully study the real...
We’ve Successfully Given Nigerians Change We Promised — Buhari
President Muhammadu Buhari said his administration has fulfilled the promise of change to Nigerians. Buhari stated this on Tuesday in when he presented keys to some new homeowners at the Federal Housing Authority (FHA) Zuba, in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). The President in his speech at the inauguration of the estate, which covers a total of 18.5 hectares of land,...
Barr. Neya Kalu Named Among 25 Most Powerful Women In Journalism
Barr. Neya Kalu, the Publisher/Chairman, The Sun Publishing Limited, publishers of Daily Sun, Saturday Sun, Sunday Sun, and Sporting Sun, has been named as one of the most powerful women in journalism. In a list released by Women in Journalism Africa (WiJAfrica), Kalu was named 20th of the “25 Most Powerful Women Journalists in Nigeria.” Barr. Kalu took over as Publisher/Chairman...
Indomie Noodles Produced In Nigeria Safe, Says NAFDAC
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has assured that Indomie Instant Noodles produced in Nigeria are safe. A statement by the Director-General, Prof Mrs Mojisola Adeyeye reacted to circulating information about a purported ban. The agency is probing the reported discovery of a harmful substance in the product after probes by the authorities in two Asian...
Adamawa REC, Hudu Yunusa Ari Arrested
Suspended Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) in Adamawa State, Hudu Yunusa Ari has been taken into custody. A police source on Tuesday confirmed to Channels Television via telephone conversation that the embattled REC is in police custody. The development comes hours after Ari said in a BBC Hausa interview that he would surrender himself to the police two weeks after he went...
We Will Retrieve Our Stolen Mandate At Tribunal – Bauchi APC Guber Candidate Baba Saddique
The Bauchi State gubernatorial candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the March 18 governorship election, Air Marshal Abubakar Baba Saddique (retd), on Monday, vowed to retrieve what he termed the mandate freely given to him by the people of the state at the tribunal, even as he urged his party supporters not to lose hope over the...
