Lagos, Thursday, November 24, 2022: Media Rights Agenda (MRA) today called on the Federal Government to demonstrate a commitment to transparent and accountable governance by ensuring that all Federal Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) are provided with resources in the 2023 National Budget for the effective implementation of the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act. In…
From Kayode Lawal, Abuja. A Federal High Court in Abuja on Thursday fixed December 1 for judgment in the fierce legal battle on the governorship ticket of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Ogun State. Justice Inyang Edem Ekwo fixed the date after taking arguments from parties embroiled in the legal battle on the disputed…
The Editor-in-Chief of PREMIUM TIMES, Musikilu Mojeed, will, on 1 December, 2022, release his debut book to the Nigerian public. The book, The Letterman: Inside the ‘Secret’ Letters of former Nigerian President, Olusegun Obasanjo, published by PREMIUM TIMES Books, will be unveiled at a ceremony in Abuja, after which it will be available in bookshops….
Following the recent announcement by the Central bank of Nigeria (CBN) on the redesigning of the country’s currency, there have been various reactions from experts on the policy. While some experts agree with the Central Bank’s strategic objectives for the exercise, others differ. The President of Abuja Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ACCI), Dr Al-Mujtaba…
Nigeria’s former vice president and presidential flag bearer of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), AtikuAbubakar has disclosed that he will concession ports, railways highways and other capital projects to private firms to unburden the federal government of elected as president of the country. Atiku said this on Wednesday during a meeting with the Nigerian Guild…
Chukwuma Charles Soludo, CFR My attention has been drawn to some of the tirades on social media following my frank response during an interview on Channels TV regarding the “investments” Mr. Peter Obi claimed to have made with Anambra state revenues. Sadly, several of the comments left the issue of the interview to probe or…
From Njad Vara Musa, Maiduguri National Assembly member and Senator representing Southern Borno, Sen Mohammed Ndume has asked the Federal Government to resolve the prolonged labour dispute with Academic Staff Union of University (ASUU) to prevent collapse of the university system. Ndume spoke in Maiduguri, Borno capital in an interview with journalists on Friday “The…
Lagos, October 30, 2022 – THE Management of Realnews Magazine and Publications Limited, publishers of Realnews Magazine Online, has announced that His Excellency, Brigadier General Buba Marwa, chairman of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, will deliver the Realnews 10th Anniversary Lecture. Brig Gen. Marwa’s acceptance to deliver the lecture was communicated to Realnews in a…
BY AMOS OKIOMA, YENAGOA. Scores of ex-militant generals in the Niger Delta region have passed a vote of confidence in the Interim Administrator (IA) of the Presidential Amnesty Program, PAP, Major General B. T. Ndiomu (Retd) for his decision to provide palliatives for the victims of floods in the region. The decision of the new…
Osun State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has strongly rebuked a group accusing the party and its Governor-elect, Senator Ademola Adeleke of raising a killer squad ahead of November inauguration, describing such allegation as “a worst case than pot calling kettle black” In a statement issued on Monday by the party’s Caretaker Chairman,…
