The Abia state House of Assembly has passed into law a bill to repeal the Abia state governors and deputy governors’ pensions Law No 4 of 2001 that legalised the payment of pension and gratuity to former governors and their deputies. The […]

The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has championed an Authorised Economic Operators (AEO) programme to enhance the efficiency and predictability of trade facilitation efforts in the country. The Comptroller-General of Customs (CGC) Adewale Adeniyi, during a stakeholder in Abuja, said the programme would […]

The Federal High Court in Abuja has dismissed a suit filed by Mr Ugochukwu Uchenwa, a member of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, seeking to stop the conduct of elections and examinations on Saturdays. Delivering judgment in the suit on Wednesday, Justice […]

The Governorship candidate of the Labour Party in Bayelsa State, Engr. Udengs Eradiri, has appealed to the military to identify, arrest and deal decisively with only persons directly and remotely connected to the gruesome killings of military officers in Okuama community, Delta […]

The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) on Wednesday stormed the secretariat of the Labour Party to protest the party’s national convention planned for end of this month.  The Congress also demanded sack of the National Chairman of the party, Julius Abure.  […]

Activities at the University of Lagos (UNILAG) were on Wednesday paralysed as members of non-academic staff unions complied with the directive to embark on seven-day warning strike. The Nation reports Joint Action Committee of SSANU and NASU had directed its members […]

Veteran filmmaker and actor, Patrick Doyle, has berated the popular slogan that  Christian chant. The ex-husband of actress, Ireti Doyle, who remarried last year, via his Facebook page, stated that people are too obstinate to admit their folly. He noted how […]

Zenith Bank Plc on Tuesday appointed Dame Adaora Umeoji as the Group Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer (GMD/CEO) from June 2024. She is the first female to lead the bank. Her appointment is, however, subject to the approval of the Central Bank […]

The House of Representatives Committee on Anti-Malaria, HIV/AIDS and Tuberculosis yesterday gave the Minister of Health and Social Welfare, Prof. Mohammed Ali Pate, and the Permanent Secretary in the ministry, Daju Kachollom, 72 hours to appear before it. They are to […]

Detained leader of the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra  (IPOB) Nnamdi Kanu yesterday said that violence in the Southeast would end if he regains freedom. Kanu spoke shortly after Justice Binta Nyako of the  Federal High Court in Abuja denied him bail. An […]