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A major crisis is brewing in the Kogi State chapter of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP), as concerned members are mobilizing to protest the moves by ex-governor, Alhaji Ibrahim Idris, to impose his son, Abubakar, as the party’s candidate in the state’s governorship election slated for November. Abubakar Idris, declared …

As part of its Corporate Social Responsibility, (CSR), the Management of Eko Electricity Distribution Company (EKEDC) on Thursday 30th May visited the Ikoyi prisons of the Nigerian Prisons Service, Ikoyi, Lagos with relief items. In a statement signed by the General Manager, Corporate Communications of EKEDC, Godwin Idemudia, the gesture …

The Industrial Court has ordered the reinstatement of Mounir Gwarzo, suspended director general of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The court also ordered that the federal government pay him all entitlements. In his judgement, Sanusi Kado, justice of the industrial court, held that the minister of finance, named as …

The President, Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria, Francis Johnson, has died, The PUNCH is reporting. The newspaper is reporting that Johnson died in the wee hours of Friday. The General Secretary of PENGASSAN, Okugbawa Lumumba, has confirmed the development to The PUNCH. Lumumba said members of …

The Senate yesterday passed the N243.374 billion 2019 budget bill of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) as well as eight other bills. The upper chamber of the National Assembly had at plenary authorised the issuance from the Federal Capital Territory Administration Consolidated Revenue Fund of the Federal Capital Territory Administration …

One of the houses marked for demolition located on the Lagos Island collapsed yesterday, killed a three-year-old boy. The deceased, according to neighbours, is a twin who had gone to bed Monday night only to be trapped under the collapsed structure at the popular Oju-Ina area of Agarawu, Lagos Island. …

The plaintiff in the suit filed against the eligibility of Femi Gbajabiamila, to contest for the position of the Speaker of the House of Representatives in the 9th National Assembly has withdrawn the suit. The plaintiff, Philip Undie, in a letter titled, “Authorization To File My Withdrawal From Suit Number: …

The Supreme Court on Friday nullified the elections of all the candidates of the All Progressives Congress in Zamfara State in the 2019 general elections. Delivering a unanimous judgment of the five-man panel led by the Acting Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Tanko Muhammad, the apex court declared the first …

NPA MD, Hadiza Bala-Usman These are not the best of times for the Managing Director of the Nigerian Ports Authority, Hadiza Bala-Usman, as an audit report conducted by the Auditor-General’s office has allegedly indicted the her for various questionable transactions. Part of the recommendations include that the Bala-Usman-led NPA should …