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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 …

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 …

  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 …

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 …

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, …

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 …

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 …

  The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), has urged Justice Nicholas Oweibo of the Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos to dismiss the application filed by Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello, seeking to vacate the interim forfeiture order in respect of 14 properties and the sum of N400 …

Stakeholders in the sector have told Nigerians to be ready to pay as much as N750 per litre of fuel at filling stations, as the federal government prepares to completely deregulate the downstream sector of the Nigerian oil and gas industry in the coming months. This was the highpoint of …

Yakubu Mahmood The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has budgeted over N3bn to defend the results of the February 25 presidential and national assembly election and the March 18 governorship and state assembly polls. This is as up to 100 candidates who lost in the elections have filed petitions at …