BudgIt BudgIT, a civic-tech organisation, has insisted on the accuracy of its survey alleging non-payment of workers’ salaries in 12 states. Edo, Ebonyi, Imo, Nasarawa and Plateau among 12 states on the list of states owing workers at least one month’s salary as of July 28, 2022, have publicly denied. But …

Inibehe Effiong Inibehe Effiong, a human rights lawyer, has sued the Akwa Ibom State Chief Judge , Justice Ekaette Obot , seeking for enforcement of his fundamental rights to liberty and fair hearing. The Lagos based lawyer has been in the Correctional facility in the past 21 days following order …

Wike, Odili Nyesom Wike, governor of Rivers State has gifted a mansion to Peter Odili, a former governor of the state on the occasion of his 74th birthday. Mr. Kelvin Ebiri, media aide to the governor who disclosed this in a statement, said the residence was built and donated to …

Court Tawakalitu Sanusi, a businesswoman, has asked a Mapo Grade A Customary Court in Ibadan to dissolve her 15 year-old marriage to estranged husband, Olaide whom she described as ‘’too lazy.’’ Sanusi said she is further frustrated by her husband’s alleged ineptitude when he barred her from having access to …

Sheikh Ibrahim Khalil, the governorship candidate of African Democratic Congress (ADC) in Kano (left) receiving a document on the Kano Citizens’ Charter of Demands, from the Partnership to Engage, Reform and Learn (PERL), a Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO). Sheikh Ibrahim Khalil, the Kano State governorship candidate of the African Democratic Congress …

Bank of Industry The Bank of Industry (BoI) has announced the successful completion of a landmark EURO 1 billion Guaranteed Senior Loan Facility. This is to further enhance its capacity to deliver on its mandate, in line with President Muhammadu  Buhari’s economic diversification agenda. According to the bank, the initially …

Managing Direction of Benin Electricity Distribution Company (BEDC) Plc, Mrs. Funke Oshibodu, The embattled Managing Direction of Benin Electricity Distribution Company (BEDC) Plc, Mrs. Funke Osibodu, has raised the alarm over alleged threat to her life, following her arrest by police operatives, over alleged trespass of the company’s premises. Osibodu …

Managing Director, TCN, Dr Sule Abdulaziz The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) has appealed to the electricity workers to suspend their proposed strike billed to begin on Aug. 17. The Managing Director, TCN, Dr Sule Abdulaziz, made the appeal in a letter to the workers on Tuesday following the threat …

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Tuesday released a statement that it had recovered an additional sum of one billion, four hundred million naira (N1.4 billion) for the National Health Insurance Scheme, NHIS. According to the statement, the money which was released to the NHIS on August 5, …

Shareholders of Jaiz Bank Plc on Tuesday gave approval to the Board of Directors of the bank to raise the sum of N150bn through issuance of Sukuk or Equity from the Nigerian capital market. The approval was unanimously given at the Bank’s 10th Annual General Meeting held in Abuja. Through …