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A Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court in Jabi on Wednesday ordered the suspension of the National Chairman of the All Progressive Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole, pending the determination of a substantive suit. The judge, Danlami Senchi, gave the order following an application of interlocutory injunction asking the court...

By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Muhammadu Buhari has sent warm greetings to former President Olusegun Obasanjo on his 83rd birthday, which comes up on March 5, 2020. Special Adviser to the President (Media & Publicity), Femi Adesina, who made this known in a statement on Wednesday, said the...

Minister of the  Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Malam Muhammad Musa Bello, has called on publishers of online media to be objective and fair in their reportage. Malam Bello made the call when he received a delegation of the Abuja-based members of the Guild of Corporate Online Publishers (GOCOP), led...

By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri In recent times, more of the Boko Haram/ISWAP terrorists have begun to surrender as troops of Operation Lafiya Dole intensify clearance operations to further decimate more unrepentant terrorists and rescue more captives. This is according to the Nigerian Army in a statement on Tuesday by...

*As Agba assures of FG’s commitment to fighting infectious diseases EHIME ALEX, Lagos  The federal  government has signed an $18.2 million grant agreement with the Japanese government to strengthen the capacity of Network laboratories of the Nigeria Centre of Disease Control for accurate medical and laboratory investigations. Minister of...

JOHN ONAH, Abuja Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) has frowned at the numbers of abandoned projects in the higher institutions across the nation after reasonable funds had been allocated to contractors handing such projects. Executive Secretary of the Fund, Professor Sulieman Bogoro, noted the ugly situation when the House...

JOHN ONAH, Abuja National Universities Commission (NUC) has begun the process of head count of academic, non-academic staff, programmes and courses in the nation’s higher institution with a view to streamlining data for effective management of the system. The data collation would also involve lecturers, professors and courses of...

Chief Executive Officer, First Bank of Nigeria Limited, Dr Adesola Adeduntan has recently participated as a keynote speaker in the Annual FinTech & InsureTech Summit held at Sofia Event Center, Bulgaria on 27 February 2020. According to a statement on Tuesday, the Dr Adeduntan delivered a keynote speech on...

Members of The Nigerian Stock Exchange on Tuesday passed requisite resolutions for the demutualisation of The Exchange at a Court Ordered Meeting (COM) and an Extraordinary General Meeting (EGM). The meetings were held at The Grand Banquet Hall, Civic Centre, Ozumba Mbadiwe Avenue, Victoria Island, Lagos. At the COM,...

The Senate on Tuesday, threatened to sanction Dakuku Peterside, Director-General, Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) over his failure to appear before its committee on Local Contents. Chairman of the Committee, Sen. Teslim Folarin said this during an investigative hearing of the National Joint Committee on Local Content,...

EHIME ALEX, Lagos  The President, Alumni Association of the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies (AANI), IGP MD Abubakar (Rtd) has lauded the Corps Marshal, Federal Road Safety Corps, Dr Boboye Oyeyemi, for repositioning the Corps through robust deployment of information technology. According to the Corps Public Education...

Following the substantial completion of the Southern Parkway in the FCT and opening same for use by motorists, the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA), has said it would begin enforcement activities on the road by Monday next week to ensure that motorists adhere to its proper usage. The Executive...

In a move to enhance its attractiveness for tourists and investors, and also foster its connections with the Canary Islands, the Saharan city of Dakhla, dubbed “the Pearl of Southern Morocco” will soon have its own leisure port. Consultancy firms have been invited by l’Agence Nationale des Ports (ANP),...

By TOM CHIAHEMEN, Abuja – Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Malam Muhammad Musa Bello has pledged the support of the FCT Administration to the Judiciary especially in the quest by judicial officers to own their own homes upon retirement. The Minister made the pledge when he received...

By JACOB KUBEKA, Abuja – The Supreme Court has dismissed the application by Emeka Ihedioha and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) asking the apex court for a review of its judgement which sacked him as Imo governor. Ihedioha was earlier declared the winner of the 2019 governorship election by...

OLA MODUPE, Lagos – Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has sent an open to the Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu urging him to use his leadership position to “instruct the Commissioner for Health, Professor Akin Abayomi to immediately, fully and effectively en0force the judgment stopping all Lagos hospitals and...

By abiodun KOMOLAFE Rumours are rumours! But, if, indeed, there is any substance or element of truth in the rumoured presidential ambition of Bola Ahmed Tinubu, then, he will have to take some serious steps for it to become a reality. Charity, they say, begins at home! For him...

By PHILIP IKPONKO, Abuja – As Coronavirus  continues to spread across the globe, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and The World Bank have intervened with assurances of their readiness to help countries deal with the financial and health effects of the epidemic, also known as COVID-19. This assurance coincides...

EHIME ALEX, Lagos  Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has hinted that a clear cut set of strategies to curb and curtail the proliferation of small and light weapons would be developed soon.   The vice president gave the hint at a meeting he held on Monday with top security chiefs...

EHIME ALEX, Lagos  All Progressives Congress National Leader, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has felicitated with the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor Enoch Adejare Adeboye, on his 78th birthday. The former Lagos state governor described Pastor Adeboye as a strong and committed leader of nations who has...