A lecturer at the Tai Solarin University of Education (TASUED) in Ogun State, is facing charges at the Ijebu-Ode High Court, in Ogun State. He is accused of demanding sexual and monetary gratification from a female student of the institution. The suspect was brought before Hon. Justice Osinuga by the …
Read More »APC Governors Vow To Protect Tinubu’s Mandate, Urge DSS To Arrest Promoters Of Interim Government
Governors under the platform of the ruling All Progressives Congress APC, the Progressive Governors Forum, PGF, have vowed to protect the mandate of Bola Tinubu, the president-elect and called on the Department of State Security, DSS, to hunt down the movers of Interim National Government, ING, and punish them. The …
Read More »ASUU declares indefinite strike in Taraba
ASUU declares indefinite strike in Taraba The Taraba State University chapter of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), has declared a total, comprehensive and indefinite strike action. The decision follows a permission by the ASUU national to the state branch to embark on the strike action to press home …
Read More »Nigeria’s public debt exceeds N46trn
Zainab Ahmed, Finance Minister Latest figures from the Debt Management Office (DMO) show that Nigeria’s public debt profile stood at N46. 25 trillion, as at December 2022. The DMO, which released the figure on Thursday noted that it e accounted for the total debt owed by the federal and state …
Read More »Force CID probes national assembly staff leaders for alleged N500m fraud
Top officials of the National Assembly branch of the Parliamentary Staff Association of Nigeria were interrogated by operatives of the Force Criminal Investigation Department on Wednesday over allegations of financial misappropriation involving about N500m. PUNCH reports that three top officials of PASAN in the National Assembly were invited by the …
Read More »I never collected money to support Umo Eno – A’Ibom guber aspirant
An aspirant for the 2023 gubernatorial race in Akwa Ibom State on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Barr Onofiok Luke has said that he never collected money from anybody ahead of the campaigns in order to support Pastor Umo Eno, for the number one position. Luke …
Read More »CCB opens investigation into Atiku’s SPV saga, invites Keyamo
The Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB) is set to commence investigations into a petition against former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar for allegedly using the Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) to divert fund between 1999 and 2007. Recall that the Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Festus Keyamo submitted the petition …
Read More »Supreme court dismisses Nwanjiuba’s suit against Tinubu, Atiku
The Supreme Court The Supreme Court has dismissed an appeal filed by Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba, a former Minister of State for Education, seeking to disqualify Sen. Bola Tinubu and Atiku Abubakar as presidential candidates of their respective political parties. The Supreme Court dismissed the case on Thursday because it was statute-barred, …
Read More »Atikugate: Code Of Conduct Orders Keyamo To Produce Achimugu Over Petition Against Atiku
L-R: Atiku Abubakar and Michael Achimugu The Code of Conduct Bureau, CCB, has requested that Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Festus Keyamo, appear before it to substantiate his petition against former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar. A letter seen on Thursday by our Correspondent despatched to Keyamo also ordered …
Read More »Student Death: Chrisland School Principal, Other Staff, Face Life In Prison As Trial Set To Begin
The Lagos State Government has arraigned the principal of Chrisland School, Opebi, along with its Vice Principal and two other members of staff over the death of 12-year-old student Whitney Adeniran. The defendants were arraigned on Thursday before Justice Oyindamola Ogala of the Lagos State High Court in Ikeja, on …
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