Month: July 2022

Governor Aminu Waziri Tambuwal of Sokoto State has declared Thursday and Friday, July 28 and 29, 2022, as work free days. This is in order to allow members of the public and public servants in the the state to fully […]

Former Senate Minority Leader, Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe, on Wednesday defended calls for President Muhammadu Buhari’s impeachment, saying the Federal Government has not taken decisive measures to stem the tide of insecurity. Abaribe, an All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) lawmaker representing […]

The wind of insecurity blowing across the country, especially in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, gathered pace yesterday, sending panic through the whole of Abuja and its environs. This led to the shutting down of Veritas University, as the terrorists, […]

Senators, mainly of the minority extraction on Tuesday staged a walkout after demanding the impeachment of President Muhammadu Buhari over the worsening insecurity in the country. According to reports, the senators chanted a solidarity song, ”All we are saying is […]

The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, has placed all its state commands on alert, following intelligence reports that Boko Haram terrorists, as well as those of Islamic State West Africa Province, ISWAP, have heightened plots to attack the […]

The Chief Judge of Akwa Ibom State, Ekaette Obot, has sentenced a human rights lawyer, Inibehe Effiong, to one-month in prison. Effiong who is handling a case for his client before Justice Obot’s court in Uyo disclosed this in a […]

A High Court of the Federal Capital Territory sitting at Maitama, on Wednesday, deferred its ruling on application seeking the release of former Accountant-General of the Federation, AGF, Ahmed Idris, on bail, till Thursday. Idris, who was remanded in prison […]

The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, yesterday began a two-day nationwide protest against failure of the Federal Government to resolve the strike embarked upon by unions in the nation’s university system, warning the government not to toy with another people’s uprising […]

President of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Olumide Akpata, was conspicuously absent at a meeting of the Body of Benchers (BOB) in Abuja, yesterday. The meeting, held at the Body of Benchers Complex in Jabi, Abuja, was well attended by […]