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Universities Pledge To Absorb Returnee Students As Another Batch Of Evacuees Arrive Nigeria

– Nigerian Evacuees  Some universities have pledged to support Nigerian students evacuated from war-torn Sudan as another 125 have arrived at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja. The evacuees arrived yesterday at 12.49 pm on a Tarco B737-300 aircraft  from Port Sudan. The latest arrival brings the total number of evacuated Nigerians from Sudan to 2,371. Upon arrival, the returnees were processed by immigration… []

Abia Workers Jubilate As Ikpeazu Promises Payment of Salary

Dr. Okezie Ikpeazu, has ordered the immediate payment of salaries to all workers in Abia State. The governor disclosed that he is highly committed to the welfare of the workers till his last day in office as Governor. Gathered that the state government was yet to pay March and April 2023 salaries due to a court order freezing all bank accounts belonging to the state… []

Fashola Elected Chairman of Shelter Afrique At 42nd AGM

– Babatunde Raji Fashola Nigeria’s Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Raji Fashola who represented Nigeria at the company’s 42nd Annual General Meeting has emerged Chairman of Shelter Afrique (SHAF). He was announced the winner after an election held in Abuja, the nation’s capital. Shelter Afrique is the only pan-African finance institution that exclusively supports the development of the housing and real estate sector in… []

Seplat Energy Crisis: Court Suspends CEO, Chairman, Others

  There’s no indication that the crisis rocking Seplat Energy Plc may abate anytime soon. The crisis took a turn for the worse, yesterday, as a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, suspended the company’s Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Roger Brown, and Board Chairman, Mr. Basil Omiyi, pending the determination of the Motion on Notice for Interlocutory Injunction filed by some aggrieved shareholders of the… []

Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal Cautions All Parties Ahead Of Hearing Proper

– Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal  All political parties involved in the ongoing Presidential Election Petitions have been cautioned by the Tribunal ahead of the hearing proper. The tribunal said it would not accept any unnecessary technicalities or sensational comments from lawyers to petitioners in the hearing. The tribunal on Monday held its inaugural session, a legal ritual that precedes the actual hearing of petitions seeking… []

“Tinubu Presidency Will Create Right Environment For Investment” – Ooni

– Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi While hosting a delegation from Kenyan President, William Ruto at his Lagos residence recently, the Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi tasked Nigerians, irrespective of party affiliations to support the incoming administration of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu after inauguration on May 29. Oba Ogunwusi urged supporters of former vice president Atiku Abubakar and one-time Anambra governor Peter Obi… []

Airline Operators ‘Frown’ At Reports Of Max Air Tyre Burst

– Max Air aircraft Tyre that burst on Sunday  Following Max Air aircraft Tyre burst during landing at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja on Sunday, Airline Operators of Nigeria (AON) has decried what it described as ‘sensational reporting’ of the incident. While lamenting that such incidents always attract sensational reporting in a statement on Sunday, AON noted that tyre bursts occur now and then… []

Tension As Plane Crash Lands At Abuja Airport

Flights were delayed at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja on Sunday after a Max Air crash-landed on the tarmac. The tyre of the plane also burst into flames, according to the source. The incident was also confirmed by Sam Hart, a former aide to the Governor of Abia state, Okezie Ikpeazu. Hart tweeted: “Airline (name withheld) had an emergency landing at Nnamdi Azikiwe… []

Tinubu Writes Congratulatory Letter To King Charles III on His Coronation

– King Charles, Tinubu Following the coronation of King Charles III on Saturday, Nigerian President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu has congratulated him. In a letter written to King Charles yesterday, Tinubu said it was heartwarming that his accession to the throne was coming after the 70-year-reign of his iconic mother, Queen Elizabeth II, whose death last September left the entire world in grief, given her eventful… []

13th-Year Memoriam: Tinubu, Others Extol Umaru Yar’Adua

– Tinubu, Late Yar’Adua  Tributes were paid as Former President Goodluck Jonathan, former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar and President-elect, Bola Tinubu gathered to mark the 13th year of late former president, Umaru Yar’Adua. Yar’Adua was sworn in as President in 2007 but died in 2010 before completing his first term, and Jonathan took over as acting President and later became the President. Jonathan, who was Yar’Adua‘s… []

Ekweremadu: Lawyer Seeks King Charles’ Intervention

– Ike Ekweremadu and wife, Beatrice  Renowned constitutional lawyer, Kayode Ajulo, has written King Charles III, pleading for a prerogative of mercy for the former Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, and wife, Beatrice, over their conviction by a British court. Ajulo made the plea in a letter to King Charles III and made available to newsmen in Abuja on Saturday. Ike, his wife and doctor,… []

“Petro Union Cheque Is A Forgery,” British Crime Detective Informs Court

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has closed its case in a £2.6 billion alleged fraud charge slammed on an oil firm, Petro Union Oil and Gas Limited, a consultant to the company and three of its directors. The Consultant is Abayomi Kukoyi (Trading under the name and style of Gladstone Kukoyi & Associates), while the company’s directors on trial are Prince Kingsley Okpala,… []

“I Worry For My Stay In Nigeria” – Would Be Donor, David Begs For Stay In UK

– Ike Ekweremadu, David Nwamini  David Nwamini, the would-be kidney donor in the organ trafficking case that sent Senator Ike Ekweremadu, 60, to jail, has said he wanted to remain and work in the UK, as “they could arrest me or kill me in Nigeria”. His impact statement was read in court, at the sentencing that saw Ekweremadu, his wife, Beatrice, 56, and the doctor-middleman,… []

BREAKING: Army Rescues Two More Chibok Girls In Borno

The Nigerian Army on Thursday said it had rescued two additional girls from the Government Girls Secondary School, Chibok, nine years after their abduction by Boko Haram in 2014. According to the News Agency of Nigeria, the Theatre Commander, North-East Joint Operation Hadin Kai, Maj.-Gen. Ibrahim Ali, made this known while briefing newsmen at the Maimalari Cantonment in Maiduguri. Ali said that Hauwa Maltha and… []

I Can’t Account For N6 trillion Ground Rent, Ask SGF -Fashola tells Senate

– Babatunde Raji Fashola  Minister For Work, Babatunde Fashola has told the Senate ad hoc committee investigating the N6 trillion unpaid ground rent to seek information from Boss Mustapha, the secretary to the government of the federation. Mr Fashola said this when the Senate ad hoc committee chaired by Adamu Aliero (PDP-Kebbi) visited the ministry on Wednesday. The Senate had, on March 29, set up… []

Sudan: We Were Sexually Harassed – Evacuees Recount Ordeal As FG Gives N100,000 Each

– Evacuees Returnee Nigerian students who were airlifted back to Nigeria from Egypt, have recounted their ordeal, alleging that some females were sexually harassed and were so broke to the extent of picking things from shops and ran away. A returnee female student told journalists on arrival at the International Airport Abuja that they faced humiliation and slept in the open. “We spent all the… []

Senate Approves Buhari’s N22.7 Trillion Extra-budgetary Spending

– Nigeria Senate The Senate on Wednesday approved the request by President Muhammadu Buhari for the sum of N22.7 trillion spent by the executive arm without the initial approval of the National Assembly. The N22.7 trillion is money borrowed by the Federal Government from the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) through the “ways and means advances”. President Buhari had asked the senate to approve the… []

Tinubu Arrives Rivers Triumphantly To Inaugurate Wike’s Projects

– Tinubu on arrival to Rivers State President-elect Bola Tinubu has arrived in Port Harcourt, the capital of Rivers, to inaugurate some projects executed by Nyesom Wike, governor of the state. The president-elect was received by Wike and some government officials at the airport on Wednesday morning. Tinubu is expected to inaugurate the Rumuola-Rumuokwuta flyover and magistrate court building in Port Harcourt. Wike had declared… []

Seyi Tinubu’s Firm Linked To $10.8m London ‘Controversial’ Mansion – Bloomberg Report

– Seyi Tinubu and father, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu Aranda Overseas Corp, a company belonging to Seyi Tinubu, purchased a London mansion which the Nigerian government had tried to seize as property bought with the proceeds of crime, Bloomberg has reported. Seyi, who is the son of the President-elect, Bola Tinubu, bought the property for £9 million ($10.8 million) through the company in which he… []

Mechanics In Ogun At War Over Abiodun’s N50m Largesse

– Gov. Dapo Abiodun During Dapo Abiodun’s campaign to the National Automobile Technicians Association (NATA) headquarters in Abeokuta, Abiodun said he gave out a sum of N50million to the association as loan for its members. Members of the Ogun State branch of NATA on Tuesday, went up in arms against one another over the sum N50m donated to the association by Governor Dapo Abiodun in… []