A group of concerned citizens in Ekiti state has called on Tunji Alausa, minister of education, to take action on a committee’s report which allegedly uncovered financial inconsistencies amounting to ₦387,231,000 at the Federal University Oye-Ekiti (FUOYE). The group urged the minister not to overlook the committee’s findings, which it said pointed to irregularities under…
The specter of military action, recently raised by President Donald Trump and echoed in parts of the U.S. government, over alleged Christian genocide in Nigeria has plunged Africa’s largest democracy into the vortex of global scrutiny. Trump’s rhetoric, couched in a moral crusader tone, resonates with his evangelical base and plays into deep seated American…
There was a mild drama at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, on Tuesday, when Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan confronted officials of the Nigerian Immigration Service who seized her passport. The lawmaker, who went live on social media, revealed that she was travelling abroad after rounding off ceremony for her second year in office. Last week, the…
A High Court in Oyo State has directed the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its acting national chairman, Umar Damagum, to proceed with the party’s national convention scheduled for November 15 in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital. The order was issued on Monday by Justice A.L. Akintola, following an ex parte application filed by Folahan…
Supporters of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) National Working Committee (NWC), led by National Chairman Ambassador Iliya Damagum, have condemned the recent wave of defections by some elected officials, describing the development as destabilising and harmful to party unity. They also criticised what they termed “dubious and predictable” court judgments, saying such rulings have…
If politics were to be built up into flesh and bone, one that is fashioned into an individual who could speak, legislate, joke around, and empathise— it would be difficult not to imagine Rt. Hon. (Dr.) James Abiodun Faleke as the first thought of such personification. Different from the usual politics of personal enrichment, Faleke’s…
…Warn Agency-Creation Mongers to Allow Crystallisation of Reforms in Oil Sector Hundreds of placard-carrying activists stormed the streets of Abuja this morning as the Energy Reforms Advocates of Nigeria (ERAN) declared total war on the National Commission for the Decommissioning of Oil and Gas Installations (NC-DOGI) Bill, 2024. At a press conference, ERAN Executive Director,…
***Says FG’s Decision Will End Dumping of Fake Products, Scarcity in Nigeria A broad coalition of civil-society organisations under the umbrella of the Coalition of Civil Rights Activists has showered unreserved praise on President Bola Ahmed Tinubu for approving a 15% import duty on refined petroleum products, describing the policy as “a watershed decision in…
A Federal Capital Territory High Court in Abuja has sentenced a 19-year-old teacher, Abdullahi Abbass, to life imprisonment for raping his nine-year-old pupil. The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) hailed the conviction as a major win in its fight against sexual violence. According to NAPTIP, Abbass, who worked in a…
The National Working Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party has suspended the National Legal Adviser, Kamaldeen Ajibade (SAN); National Secretary, Senator Samuel Anyanwu; Deputy Legal Adviser, Okechukwu Osuoha; and National Organising Secretary, Umaru Bature, for one month following a court ruling that halted the party’s planned national convention. Disclosing this while addressing journalists, the PDP…
