Senate President Godswill Akpabio has arrived at the upper chamber and plenary has commenced. He arrived at exactly 12:10pm. The Senate also, entered an executive session. Akpabio is expected to read the ministerial list of President Bola Tinubu today (Thursday) during plenary session. There are indications that the list is now in the National Assembly….
Big Brother Naija All Stars housemate, Cynthia Nwadiora, aka CeeC, has said the ongoing show is “boring.” She said she is always bored. The Enugu-born lawyer stated this during her first diary session on Wednesday. “This house is boring. This season is boring. Big brother, I am bored,” CeeC lamented. It could be recalled that…
Big Brother Naija All Stars housemate, Venita Akpofure, has described her colleague Ilebaye as “a toddler in a China shop.” She used the analogy while advising Ilebaye on how to conduct herself in the Big Brother house on Thursday morning. She said all the housemates are not “equal”, urging Ilebaye to “use a ruler and…
A Federal High Court in Abuja has dismissed a request by the Department of State Services (DSS) to detain suspended Central Bank Governor Godwin Emefiele for 14 more days. POLITICS NIGERIA reports that the DSS had filed the application on Wednesday, claiming that it had discovered new evidence against Emefiele. The court, however, dismissed the…
Governor Ademola Adeleke of Osun State, has assigned the portfolios and ranks of newly appointed Special Advisers. This was unveiled at the State’s Secretariat on Wednesday in Osogbo, where former executive Vice Chairman Orolu local government, Hon. Moshood Yakub Adejare makes a list of 10 Ranks Cabinet members. Speaking during the inauguration of the state…
President Tinubu’s government has warned the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) they cannot embark on any strike as they are barred by court. The federal government was reacting to the seven-day ultimatum issued by the NLC to embark on industrial action over the hike in the price of petrol and the high cost of living in…
The Vice-Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the North-West, Salihu Lukman, has resigned as a member of the party’s National Working Committee (NWC). In a letter dated July 26, 2023 and addressed to the acting APC National Chairman, Abubakar Kyari, Lukman said he chose to resign from the leadership of the party than…
The family of a lady, Miss Chinyere Awuda, who was allegedly beaten to death and her corpse dumped by a swimming pool at the Cosmila Hotel, Awka, Anambra State, on July 16, has cried foul play over an alleged conspiracy by the police and the hotel management to cover up the incident. The deceased was…
The immediate former Governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai, his Rivers State counterpart Nyesom Wike and legal luminary Lateef Fagbemi (SAN) are some of the names on the list of ministerial nominees forwarded to the Senate by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, The Nation reports. Also included are eminent medical scholar, Ali Pate, an economist Olawale…
The federal government appealed to the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, yesterday to shelve its planned strike scheduled to start next Wednesday, saying it was doing everything possible to address issues raised by the labour movement, on the removal of fuel subsidy. The appeal came against the backdrop of the Wednesday strike notice served by the…
