The Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja has given the All Progressives Congress candidate for the Bayelsa state governorship election, Timipre Sylva, the nod to contest in the November 11 poll. An Abuja Federal High Court had on October 9 disqualified Sylva from the contest following a suit by a member of the APC in…
The Central Bank of Nigeria has said that it has no plan to redenominate or restructure the naira notes in 2024. The apex bank said this on Tuesday in a statement signed by its Director, Corporate Communications, Isa AbdulMumin, and shared on its X handle. The CBN urged Nigerians to disregard the wide circulation of…
The 2023 Supplementary Appropriation Bill on Tuesday scaled second reading in the House of Representatives as lawmakers said it is for the benefit of the country. President Bola Tinubu had written the House seeking the approval of the sum of N2,176,791,286,033 as 2023 supplementary budget to address labour wage adjustments, security and more. The President…
The FBI has declared that it will not make any private records or information about President Bola Tinubu available to the general public. In response to a lawsuit that American activist Aaron Greenspan brought in the United States District Court of the District of Columbia, the government agency of the United States made this known…
The trial of the former Minister of Petroleum Resources Diezani Alison-Madueke has been postponed to November 2025 by the Westminster Magistrates Court in London. On Monday, October 30, the court made a decision stating that the former Nigerian minister’s bribery trial will proceed on the scheduled day. According to report, a former minister is on…
The Eze Igbo of Rivers and Bayelsa States, His Imperial Majesty, Engr. Sam Nwokolo, Eze Igbo, Eze-jiofor Ndigbo, has appealed to the former governor of Rivers state and now the minister of the Federal capital Territory Nyesom Wike to allow his successor Siminalayi Fubara, to focus on the task of governing the state. Eze Nwokolo…
The Governor of Rivers State, Siminalayi Fubara; and the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, are about now meeting at the Presidential Villa in Abuja. The two were seen shaking hands upon meeting. The incident followed the impeachment proceedings launched against Fubara by the Rivers State House of Assembly on Monday. There…
The People’s Democratic Party Governors Forum (PDP-GF) has summoned an emergency meeting over the ongoing crisis in Rivers State. The political impasse in Rivers State started on Sunday night when the state’s assembly was set ablaze after a move by some members said to be loyal to Minister of FCT, Nyesom Wike to remove the…
President Bola Tinubu has written the House of Representatives seeking the approval of the sum of N2, 176, 791,286,033 as 2023 supplementary budget to address labour wage adjustments, security and more. The President also sent the 2024-2026 Medium Term Expenditure Framework & Fiscal Strategy Paper to the House of Representatives. On Monday, the Federal Executive…
Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, has denied reports in the media that he had sacked the State Chief Judge, Justice Simeon Amadi; his Chief of Staff, Hon. Chidi Amadi; and suspended the Chairmen of the 23 Local Government Areas. Speculations were also rife that the governor sacked his Chief Security Officer in the wake of…
