President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, has appointed Major General Olufemi Olatubosun Oluyede as the acting Chief of Army Staff (COAS). This was disclosed in a statement signed by Special Adviser on Information and Strategy to the President , Bayo Onanuga. According to the statement, “Oluyede will act in the position pending the…
A non-governmental organization, Coalition For Good Governance(C4GG) has clarified the truth about the Technical College land project. In a statement signed by C4GG Executive Director, Adetayo Adegbemle on Wednesday, stated that the government of Osun State, within its full legal authority and commitment to the welfare of its people, ceded a portion of land adjoining…
Borno State Governor, Babagana Umara Zulum, has extended warm birthday greetings to his colleague, the governor of Adamawa State, Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri, as he celebrates his 57th birthday. Zulum’s statement was released on Thursday by his spokesperson, Dauda Iliya, on Monday, 28 October 2024. Governor Zulum praised Fintiri’s dedication to public service and his commitment to the…
Osun State Government has assured people of Osogbo Land that the dispute over the land belonging to Osogbo Technical College will be resolved in favour of the capital city even as it clarified that the dispute was inherited from the previous administration. In a statement issued by the Commissioner for Information and Public Enlightenment, Oluomo…
● Oyetola Gov’t got N3.5b; Spent Almost N2b Governor Ademola Adeleke did not receive any Eight Billion Naira as LAUTEC refund from the Oyo State government. Rather, the former Governor Oyetola government actually received Three Billion, Five Hundred Million and spent almost Two Billion Naira from the fund before leaving office. Contrary to the fake…
The Metropolitan Police Service of the United Kingdom has dismissed a Nigerian-British officer, Shola Balogun of Bromley Police Station, for biting a colleague (name withheld) at a birthday party in Bexleyheath, Kent. This was disclosed in a hearing that was held from October 21-23, 2024, and chaired by a high-ranking officer, Christopher McKay, with IPM…
Justice Joyce Abdulmalik of the Federal High Court in Abuja on Wednesday stopped the Central Bank of Nigeria from further releasing monthly financial allocations to Rivers State Government. The presiding judge held that the presentation of the 2024 budget by Governor Siminalayi Fubara before a four -member Rivers House of Assembly was an affront to…
Barely three weeks after raising the price of Premium Motor Spirit, popularly known as petrol, Nigerians were outraged when the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited on Tuesday adjusted the pump prices of the commodity, as oil marketers foresee further price hikes in the short term. The national oil firm raised the retail price of petrol…
The 36 states and the FCT collectively generated N2.43 trillion in Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) in 2023, according to the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) IGR report for 2023. The latest NBS report released on Monday stated the IGR recorded in 2023, is higher by 26.5 per cent to the ₦1.92tn IGR recorded in 2022….
Stephen Angbulu, Adebayo, Folorunsho-Francis, Godwin Isenyo, Chima Azubuike, Tukur Muntari, Samuel Ese and Ikenna ObianeriKindly share this story: The governors of the 19 northern states on Monday called for the diversification of energy following persistent blackouts in 17 states of the region recently. Apart from Niger and Kwara, 17 states in the North are without…
