There are strong indications that the House of Representatives may resume from its Easter and Sallah break at the main chambers. Since the renovation works started in 2022, members have been using a makeshift chamber. The Senate chamber and other parts of the National Assembly building are also undergoing renovation. A memo to the members…
The Benue State Independent Electoral Commission has fixed local government elections in the state for July 6, 2024. The commission’s chairman, John Chen, stated this on Friday when he met with stakeholders where he unveiled the election timetable in Makurdi, the state capital. He assured all that the commission would conduct free, fair, and credible elections….
The Chairman, Kano State Public Complaints and Anti-Corruption Commission, Muhuyi Magaji, has appealed against the ruling of the Code of Conduct Tribunal which order his suspension from office. The Code of Conduct Bureau had on November 16, 2023, arraigned Magaji before the CCT on 10 counts bordering on alleged conflict of interest and false declaration…
Long queues built up in filling stations across Lagos State on Friday, creating fears of impending fuel scarcity. Our correspondent, who went around the city, gathered that the queues in some of the filling stations affected the free flow of traffic. At the AP filling station in Alapere, commuters were held in traffic on Friday…
The Federal High Court in Lagos on Friday convicted controversial cross-dresser, Idris Okuneye, popularly known as Bobrisky for abusing the Naira. Justice Abimbola Awogboro convicted him after the review of the facts of the case. In his allocutus, Bobrisky told the court that he was not aware of the law on abusing the naira. He…
The Governor of Ondo State, Mr Lucky Aiyedatiwa, will today (Thursday) submit his Nomination and Expression of Interest forms as a governorship aspirant on the platform of the All Progressives Congress. The Independent National Electoral Commission has fixed November 16 for the Ondo State governorship election. The governor’s Chief Press Secretary, Ebenezer Adeniyan, told The PUNCH on …
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said Wednesday the response of his Israeli counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu to an air strike that killed seven aid workers was “insufficient” and “unacceptable”. “We are waiting for a much more detailed clarification of what the causes have been, bearing in mind that the Israeli government knew about the actions and…
Several residents of Oke-Egan Community in the Eleko area of Ajah, Lagos State, on Wednesday, stormed the state House of Assembly complex in Ikeja, demanding compensation for the demolition of their houses. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that residents of the affected community, wielding large banners with boldly written messages, as well as placards…
The Lagos State Task Force, on Wednesday, clamped down on commercial motorcycles and squatters who erected shanties along the rail tracks in the Fagba area of the state. The agency said 359 bikes were impounded and several shanties demolished in the follow-up exercise after the launch of the Red Line Rail project. The spokesperson for…
Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, on Wednesday, explained that the intervention of President Bola Tinubu in the crisis between him and his estranged political godfather, Nyesom Wike, was political and not constitutional. He said he was committed to implementing the eight-point resolution reached at the mediation meeting with Tinubu in Abuja last year October out…
The Bishop of Sokoto Catholic Diocese, Matthew Kukah, will on Friday, April 12, 2024, deliver the memorial lecture of the late founder of the ClEEN Foundation, Innocent Chukwuma, in Abuja. This was disclosed in a statement issued by the Executive Director of ClEEN Foundation, Gad Peter, on Wednesday. The lecture with the theme ‘The Power…
The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps has dismantled an illegal bunkering site in the Ukwa East Local Government, Abia State. A statement signed by the NSCDC spokesperson, Babawale Afolabi, on Wednesday, said the operatives impounded 9,000 litres of Automotive Gas Oil from oil thieves in the state. Afolabi said the operations were conducted by…