Mmesoma Ejikeme Innoson Group has announced the withdrawal of the scholarship the firm awarded to Ejikeme Mmesoma after the committee set up by Chukwuma Soludo, Anambra State governor revealed that she faked her Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) result. Cornel Osigwe, head of corporate communications and affairs at Innoson Group …
Read More »Senate to probe FG’s multi-million dollar gas deal with Accugas Ltd
The Senate, on Thursday, said it will investigate a gas processing deal involving the Ministry of Finance, the Niger Delta Power Holding Company, Calabar Generation Company Limited and Accugas Limited. According to the sponsor of the motion, Senator Aniekan Bassey (from PDP, Akwa Ibom), the gas supply agreement is disadvantageous …
Read More »Sanwo-Olu Replies SAN On Lagos Cabinet
Lagos State governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has replied a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa, who in a statement titled ‘Lagos Without a Cabinet’ on Friday, had accused him of running a one-man show. Adegboruwa had said that the state fund was being spent daily without commissioners and without an …
Read More »Mmesoma admitted forging her JAMB result – Anambra panel
Mmesoma sitting before the panel Joy Mmesoma Ejikeme, Anambra JAMB candidate, has finally owned up to forging her 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination result. This was the major highlight of the report of a panel set up by Governor Chukwuma Soludo to probe the raging issue. Professor Soludo set up …
Read More »Mr President You Are Suffocating The Poor By Izuchukwu Ahuchaogu
It is now longer naysaying that no one is safe from bad government policies, including its cheerleaders. The effects of a wrong-headed approach to governance is evident in every home, on every plate of food (if any), the quality of living; even on Abuja’s now near empty streets, …
Read More »Court retains Abba Kyari in prison custody despite granting him bail
Abba Kyari The Federal High Court in Abuja has retained Abba Kyari, the suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police, in the custody of the Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS) despite being granted N50 million bail. Recall that Kyari was granted the N50 million bail by the presiding judge, Justice James Omotosho of …
Read More »NPC requests for additional N256 billion for 2023 census
Kwarra, Tinubu Nasir Kwarra, the Chairman of the National Population Census (NPC) has requested the release of the allocated N31 billion capital allocation, in the 2023 budget, for preparatory activities ahead of the exercise. Kwarra, on Thursday, also requested President Bola Tinubu’s approval for an additional N225.2 billion to cover …
Read More »Meet Taiwo Oyedele, Chairman of President Tinubu’s team for tax reforms
Taiwo Oyedele President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has appointed Taiwo Oyedele as the Chairman of the Presidential Committee on Fiscal Policy and Tax Reforms. Prior to today’s appointment, Oyedele is the Africa Tax Leader at PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PwC). Mr. Oyedele is a highly accomplished professional with extensive expertise in fiscal policy, taxation, …
Read More »Gangs Of Lagos: Amazon Defends Self In N10 Billion Lawsuit By ‘Eko Descendants’
Amazon Web Services Nigeria, a subsidiary of Amazon Inc. and founder of Prime Video Nigeria, has claimed that its film, “Gangs of Lagos”, is not injurious to anyone. The company is a defendant in suit No LD/6903GCM/2023 before a Lagos High Court. The suit was instituted by the Isale Eko …
Read More »Uncertainties In Enugu As Governorship Tribunal Fails To Resume Proceedings
Proceedings at the governorship election petition tribunal sitting in Enugu scheduled to begin today are yet to start as the entrance into the court remains locked. Hitherto, proceedings of the tribunal began at 9am. Friday’s own is yet to start despite a huge turnout of citizens, mainly officials and supporters …
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