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In furtherance of its commitment to improve the nation’s transportation infrastructure, restore its road network as a means to create employment and boost the economy, while responding to the aftermath of the recent flooding in the Niger Delta, the Federal Executive Council (FEC) has approved the sum of N260.5B as …

VP Yemi Osinbajo Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has inaugurated the Virginia Tech. Nigerian Bowen Equatorial Aeronomy Radar (VT-NigerBEAR) at Bowen University, Iwo, Osun State. Performing the inauguration on Friday at the institution’s premises, Osinbajo said it was the first and currently the only deployment of an equatorial-low-latitude SuperDARN in the …

Abia Governor, Okezie Ikpeazu The Nigeria Labour Congress, has accused the Abia State governor, Dr. Okezie Ikpeazu, of owing the state government workers 117 months of salary arrears in different agencies and institutions and 30 months of pension benefits to pensioners in the state. According to the NLC, the state …

Dana Air has announced that it will resume flight operations from November 9, 2022. The airline disclosed this in a statement on Friday. The development comes four months after the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) suspended Dana Air for multiple regulatory infractions. The authority said it suspended the operating licences …

Senator Ike Ekweremadu Woes of former Deputy Senate President Ike Ekweremadu who is currently battling charges related to organ trafficking in the United Kingdom deepened on Friday as a court in Abuja ordered an interim forfeiture of 40 landed property allegedly belonging to him. Justice Inyang Ekwo of Federal High …

Members of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) on Friday protested against the continuous detention of their leader Mazi Nnamdi Kanu in Aba, Abia State by Federal Government after an Appeal court in Abuja acquitted him of all charges. The Court of Appeal had on October 13 ordered the IPOB …

Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Kogi State, has said Yahaya Bello, the state governor, shares the blame for the horrendous attack on Owo Catholic Church in Ondo State, and Kuje Prison break. Natasha who was responding to an allegation of sponsoring …

ASUU The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has reportedly called for an emergency meeting of its National Executive Council (NEC) following the decision of the Federal Government to pay the lecturers half salaries for the month of October, 2022. While no date has been fixed yet, Punch gathered that …

Siminalaye Fubara A Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, has dismissed a suit seeking to disqualify Siminalaye Fubara as governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2023 elections. Fubara, the anointed candidate of Nyesom Wike, the incumbent governor of the state, had resigned as …

Mahmood Yakubu, INEC Chairman Professor Mahmood Yakubu, chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), said the commission was determined to ensure that elections are never postponed due to problems with logistics. Yakubu stated this on Friday during the inauguration of the Electoral Logistics Committee (EloC) held at the INEC …