Earmarks N29.871bn for 2021 By Tordue Salem – Abuja The acting chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mr Mohammed Abba Umar has urged the federal government to establish special anti-corruption courts for accelerated trial of graft cases. Mr Umar, made the demand while defending the 2021 budget estimate and presenting the performance of …

By Luminous Jannamike A Chief Magistrates’ Court in Wuse zone 2, Abuja, on Wednesday granted bail to five #EndSARS protesters bail after they were arrested by security forces at the National Assembly as they were rounding off their protest demanding widespread governmental reforms. Also granted bail was one female journalist, Oluwatosin Adeniji, who was covering …

…as Osuagwu declares interest By Chinonso Alozie, Owerri The struggle to clasp the plum position of the president of the Apex Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide, has continued to cause ripples, just as on Wednesday in Owerri, the former Chairman of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Imo state chapter, Professor Chidi Osuagwu, had declared his interest to run for the position. …

Canvasses for single-digit loan by CBN By Gabriel Ewepu – Abuja Following negative impacts caused by the novel Coronavirus, COVID-19 pandemic on businesses, ActionAid Nigeria, Wednesday, called on the Federal Government to reduce import tariffs on media consumables and grant tax holiday to media houses in order to cushion the effects. This was part of …

Governor Rotimi Akeredolu …Optimistic that same court will unfreeze the accounts By Dayo Johnson Akure The Chairman of the South West Governors’ Forum,  Rotimi Akeredolu has asked supporters of the EndSARS protest whose bank accounts were frozen by the government through the Central Bank (CBN) to challenge the matter in court if they feel their accounts …

On the heels of Christmas, the founder of Johnbosco Onunkwo Foundation, Engr. Johnbosco Onunkwo, will inaugurate a monumental site for the formal opening of the $50 million Johnbosco Onunkwo (Agribusiness Development) Farm Project in the state. The farm project is one out of the many initiatives by Johnbosco Onunkwo Foundation, a non-profit, humanitarian organization. It was …

ECOWAS The ECOWAS Court on Wednesday ordered the immediate release of 12 former members of the National Committee for the Recovery of Democracy and the Restoration of the State (CNRDRE) of Mali. The court also ordered the payment of 20 million CFA francs to each of them as compensation for the violation of their fundamental human …

By Lawani Mikairu Air Peace airline has said it will operate a special chartered flight to Delhi, India on the 27th of November and return to Nigeria the following day. According to the Spokesman of the airline , Mr Stanley Olisa, the special flight is open to commercial passengers who want to go to India. A …

Balarabe Musa By Johnbosco Agbakwuru – Abuja President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed sadness over the passage of the former civilian governor of Kaduna State, Alhaji Balarabe Musa. President Buhari in a statement issued by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu in Abuja, Wednesday, said he joined the government and people of …

A Customary Court in Mapo, Ibadan on Wednesday dissolved a 15-year-old marriage between a trader, Basirat Rahmon, and her estranged husband, a “spiritual consultant”, Olaide, over complaints bordering on theft and abandonment. In her petition, Rahmon, who lives in Olodo area in Ibadan said that Olaide, accused her husband of stealing N650,000. Delivering judgment, the …

The late Mallam Balarabe Musa, elder statesman and former Governor of Kaduna state,  By Peter Duru, Makurdi The Middle Belt Forum, MBF says Nigeria would miss the wise counsel of former Governor of Kaduna state, Mallam Balarabe Musa who died Wednesday. The forum lamented that Nigeria had lost a great man whose demise had created a …

By Ikechukwu Nnochiri, Abuja The Inspector-General of Police, on Wednesday, arraigned former Governor of Imo State, Chief Ikedi Ohakim, before an Abuja High Court sitting at Maitama, for allegedly giving false information against one Chinyere Amuchienwa. In the charge marked CR/993/2020, Police, alleged that Ohakim who was governor of Imo state from 2007 to 2011, lied …

*Also orders dissolution of university’s governing council Says school’s governing council failed to give Ogundipe fair hearing before removal *As he approvals report of visitation panel By Joseph Erunke PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari has ordered immediate reinstatement of Professor Oluwatoyin Ogindipe as Vice Chancellor of the University of Lagos. On the other hand,the president ordered immediate dissolution …

The Oyo State Controller of Works, Federal Ministry of Works and Housing, Mr Kayode Ibrahim, says completion of the 52-kilometre Oyo-Ogbomosho highway project is on course. Ibrahim stated this on Wednesday in Ibadan while speaking on the Federal Government road projects in the state. The Federal Executive Council (FEC) on November 4 approved the augmentation …

Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje of Kano State. Alhaji Abubakar Zakari, the Executive Secretary, Kano State Scholarship Board, has said that 60,000 students would benefit from the 2020 scholarship in the state. He said on Tuesday in Kano that over 50,000 students have applied so far. According to him, the board had initially provided over 40,000 …

Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa, who served as Bahrain’s prime minister since 1971, is dead at the age 84, the royal court announced on Wednesday. King Hamad bin Isa bin Salman mourned the late premier, who died at the Mayo Clinic hospital in the U.S state of Minnesota, the court said, according to the official …

Jigawa Police Command in Dutse, says its operatives are searching for a man, simply identified as Umaru, for allegedly stabbing to death a 45-year-old man over suspicion of dating his ex-wife. The command’s spokesman, SP Abdu Jinjiri, confirmed the incident, which occurred on Monday, at Dakaiyawa in Kaugama Local Government Area (LGA), of the state, …

Balarabe Musa A former Kaduna State Governor, Balarabe Musa, died on Wednesday morning in Kaduna at the age of 84. One of his sons, Kallamu Balarabe-Musa, confirmed the death of the former National Chairman of the Peoples Redemption Party (PRP) to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) at his residence in Kaduna. He said that …

The Pacific Island nation of Vanuatu on Wednesday confirmed its first case of COVID-19 since the start of the pandemic. The remote island country of around 300,000 people had been one of the remaining few COVID-19-free countries in the world. Prime Minister Bob Loughman announced the case in an address to the nation, assuring citizens …

By Johnbosco Agbakwuru PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari is currently presiding over the 23rd virtual Federal Executive Council, meeting at the Council Chambers, Presidential Villa, Abuja. The meeting, which started about 10am has the Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF, Boss Mustapha and Chief of Staff to the President, Prof. …