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Ifeanyi Okowa and Sheriff Oborevwori Delta State House of Assembly led by Hon. Sheriff Oborevwori, has approved N150 billion ‘bridging finance facility’ requested by the state governor, Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa, THE WITNESS reports. The assembly gave its approval for the facility at plenary on Tuesday, barely 11 months to the …

Usman Hadiza Bala Usman, former managing director of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), has insisted that she never stopped campaigning for the rescue of Chibok school girls abducted by Boko Haram in 2014 during her time in office. Bala Usman, a co-founder of the #BringBackOurGirls movement which emerged following the …

Billionaire drug baron behind the N3billion Tramadol deal involving the embattled suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police, Abba Kyari-led Intelligence Response Team, IRT, Chief Afam Mallinson Emmanuel Ukatu has been arrested by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA. After months of surveillance and evading arrest, Ukatu who is …

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has filed a suit against President Muhammadu Buhari at a Federal High Court, Lagos over the failure to unblock the phone lines of over 72 million telecommunications subscribers barred from making calls on their SIMs. The suit filed last Friday, followed the recent directive …

  The people are the bedrock of democracy. The supremacy of the people and the democratic institutions over and above individuals, no matter how well placed or wealthy, is at the core of democratic principles. Behind this democratic collectivism lies the individual’s inalienable rights and privileges that assume equality of …

Attacked tricycle driver Last Friday was a day to remember for operators and owners of tricycles known in local parlance as Marwa and who are also supporters of Alhaji Abiola Istijabah, chairman Tricycles Owners and Operators Association of Nigerians, Lagos State chapter. It was the day alleged loyalists of Alhaji …

– As outrage continues over decision Buhari, Nyame, Dariye Angered by the failure of the President Muhammadu Buhari-led government to disclose the identities of 159 convicts it pardoned more than a week after, Nigerians have begun to allege possible cover-up in the entire affair. This is as a number of …

President Muhammadu Buhari President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered the immediate reopening of four additional land borders. President Buhari had in December 2020 opened the Seme, Mfun borders in the Southwest, Ilela and Maigatari borders in the Northwest. it was reported that the additional border posts which have been reopened are …

Chrisland School On Saturday, the Lagos State Government ordered the reopening of all Chrisland Schools shut down over the controversies surrounding a sex tape involving minor pupils of the school. The state’s Commissioner of Education, Folasade Adefisayo, said the directive followed a review of the ongoing administrative investigation into the incident. Adefisayo …

Sympathisers have continued to throng the palace of the Alaafin of Oyo since the news of the death of Oba Lamidi Adeyemi filtered into the town. Adeyemi died at the Afe Babalola University Teaching Hospital, Ado Ekiti. Adeyemi ruled for 52 years before his demise, making him the longest-reigning Alaafin. He was …