The Federal High Court in Abuja on Tuesday struck out the charges brought against a total of 119 #EndBadGovernance protesters. All 119 protesters were arraigned on Friday, November 1 on charges bordering on Treason felony, inciting to mutiny, among others. The defendants were arraigned in two batches at the previous proceeding. The first batch comprised…
An engineer at a Russian tank manufacturer has been sentenced to 16 years in prison for high treason, after being found guilty of giving military information to Ukraine, a court said on Tuesday. The regional court in Sverdlovsk said Daniel Mukhametov, 32, was working as an engineer at Uralvagonzavod in Nizhny Tagil in Russia’s Urals…
The National Association of Nigerian Students, NANS, has asked the new Minister of Education, Dr Tunji Alausa to resolve all outstanding issues before the resumption of full academy activities at the Federal College of Education, Technical, Lagos, which re-opened on Monday after a two-month closure. Specifically, the Lagos Joint Campus of NANS said it could…
The Adaatan of Asa in Olaoluwa local government area of Osun state, Oba (Dr.) Adeolu Akinmoyero, has thrown his weight behind the reelection bid of Governor Ademola Adeleke. The monarch stated this during the official inspection by the Osun Primary Healthcare Renovation Project Committee to the newly rehabilitated and upgraded Asa MDG Primary Healthcare centre,…
The Office of the Accountant General of the Federation (OAGF) has clarified that no directive has been issued to workers to change the financial institutions registered on the Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System(IPPIS) platform as their salary accounts. In a statement in Abuja, the Office of the Accountant General of the Federation said the…
Donald Trump’s faithful are descending on US swing state Michigan, buzzing with excitement for a final chance to see their champion deliver his greatest hits at his traditional last stop before Election Day — and utterly convinced of his inevitable victory. “If you look at the numbers of people, you look at the rallies, it’s…
President Bola Tinubu on Monday directed the immediate release of all minors who were arrested over their alleged participation in August’s #EndBadGovernance protests. The Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris, announced this to State House correspondents during an emergency briefing at the Aso Rock Villa, Abuja. Idris said, “The President has ordered the…
Jones’s publicist Arnold Robinson revealed that he died last night surrounded by his family at his home in the Bel Air area of Los Angeles. The family said in a statement: ‘Tonight, with full but broken hearts, we must share the news of our father and brother Quincy Jones’ passing. ‘And although this is an…
President Bola Tinubu has officially sworn in the seven newly appointed ministers in a ceremony that held at the council chamber of Aso Rock Villa on Monday, November 4 The New ministers were appointed two week ago after President Tinubu dismissed five of his ministers from his cabinet. The newly appointed Ministers were then screened…
The Court of Appeal in Abuja has discharged and acquitted a former Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Walter Samuel Nkanu Onnoghen from his conviction of false assets declaration charges by the Code of Conduct Tribunal. Former President Muhammadu Buhari had in 2019 removed Onnoghen as the Chief Justice of Nigeria during the pendency of…
