Britain’s head of state King Charles III officially appointed Labour leader Keir Starmer as Prime Minister on Friday during an audience at Buckingham Palace. A photograph released by the palace showed the monarch shaking hands with Starmer, whose party won a landslide election victory. The king earlier accepted the resignation of Conservative leader Rishi Sunak….
An international rights organisation, Global Rights has joined its counterparts to call on the management of the University of Ibadan to have a rethink over the purported plan to expel protesting students. PUNCH reports that the management of UI, in June, invited three students namely Aduwo Ayodele; Olamide Gbadegesin; and Nice Linus, for questioning over…
President Bola Tinubu has approved the injection of N2 trillion into the economy to stimulate it. The Finance Minister and Coordinating Minister of the Economy Wale Edun said Tinubu gave the approval on Thursday while unveiling an accelerated stabilisation and advancement plan. He presented the plan while inaugurating the Presidential Economic Coordination Council (PECC) at…
The Federal Government, on Thursday, said no fewer than 10 states and the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, had either experienced various degrees of flooding or recorded casualties as rains intensified. The Minister of Water Resources and Sanitation, Prof Joseph Utsev, who dropped the red alert during a press briefing in Abuja, warned that 21 more…
The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Ltd (NNPCL) has said that Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) is 40 per cent cheaper than Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) in Nigeria. Managing Director, NNPC Retail Limited, Huub Stokman, revealed this on Thursday while commissioning 12 Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) stations in Lagos and Abuja to reduce the cost of transportation…
The 2018 Water and Sanitation Hygiene national outcome revealed that approximately 47 million Nigerians, constituting 23 per cent of the population, engaged in open defecation. Vice President, Kashim Shettima when he inaugurated the Steering Committee for the “Clean Nigeria: Use the Toilet” Campaign, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja on Thursday Wary of the rapid spread…
The Court of Appeal, Abuja division, on Thursday, dismissed the ex parte order issued on May 10, 2024, by the Rivers State High Court, Port Harcourt, which barred Martin Amaewhule from parading himself as the Speaker of the Rivers State House of Assembly. The court also dismissed the decision of the state high court stopping…
Labour has won the UK general election and is heading for a landslide, with results from more than 500 of the 650 parliamentary seats declared. Party leader, Keir Starmer will be the next prime minister, promising cheering supporters at a victory rally in central London that “change begins now.” Britain’s Prime Minister Rishi Sunak conceded…
Governor Ademola Adeleke has approved the appointment of a new Chairman for the Amotekun Corps in the person of retired Assistant Inspector General of Police, Wale Abbas. Mr Abbas replaced General Bashir Adewinbi (Rtd) who was inherited from the last administration and whose tenure of office lapsed last month. In the same vein, a new…
Osun State government has declared Monday July 8, 2024 as public holiday to celebrate Hijirah calendar 1446AH. The was contained in a statement by R. K. Aderibigbe, the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Home Affairs on Thursday. The statement reads, “This is to inform the general public that His Excellency the Governor of Osun State Senator…
