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Chairman of Orile Agege Council, Johnson Babatunde The Orile-Agege Local Council Development Area (LCDA) of Lagos State says the second batch of its exercise to distribute subsidised food items to the less-privileged will commence on Jan. 10. Mr Johnson Babatunde, the Executive Chairman of the council, told the News Agency …

Kano state governor, Abba Yusuf The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has further declined an application seeking to bar Kano State Governor, Abba Yusuf, from disbursing or spending funds and allocations belonging to the 44 Local Government Areas of the state. The court had on Friday refused to stop …

The former minister was invited last week by the anti-graft agency following a probe that was launched into her activities in the ministry when she held sway in the last six years. Aformer Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development under former President Muhammadu Buhari, Sadiya Umar-Farouq, will …

 The Nigerian Senate The Nigerian Senate has uncovered a massive fraud in the Nigerian Postal Service, NIPOST. This followed the discovery of irregularities in the agency’s subsidiaries – NIPOST Properties and Development Company and NIPOST Transport and Logistics Services Limited. In its resolution of December 30, 2023, the Red Chamber said …

MC Oluomo is one of Tinubu’s allies and loyalists, whose association with the President has been questioned by members of the public. Alhaji Musiliu Akinsanya, popularly known as MC Oluomo, has stepped down as the Chairman of the Lagos State chapter of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW). …

 CBN Building The Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, has ordered banks to stop cash payment to crypto bank account operators. Withdrawals from these accounts will only be possible by transfer or through a manager’s cheque, the apex bank explained. It revealed this in a new ‘Guidelines on Operations of Bank Accounts for …

Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, the Minister of Interior, on Monday, confirmed that the passport application automation process will begin operation on January 8, 2024.   Recall that the minister announced in December that the Federal Government was working to ensure a full automation system of passport application in the country. At the …

Senate President Godswill Akpabio has said that there are “verifiable justifications” by the national assembly for increasing the 2024 budget by over N1 trillion.   On Saturday, the national assembly passed the budget after increasing its size from N27.5 trillion proposed by President Bola Tinubu to N28.7 trillion. The budget …

The Home Office of the United Kingdom on Monday announced that it had commenced the implementation of its policy banning Nigerian students and other overseas students from bringing in dependants via the study visa route.   In a post on X (formerly Twitter), the Home Office reiterated that only those …

The Middle Belt Forum, MBF has countered the Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Taoreed Lagbaja, that Nigerians should not be allowed to carry arms in view of the killings in the country saying the directive would not be in the overall interest of the people. But, the National President of the …