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Osun State governor’s Deputy Chief of Staff charged over alleged $120,000 fraud
The Deputy Chief of Staff to the Governor of Osun State, Abdullahi Binuyo, has been charged over an alleged $120,000 fraud.
The four-count charge involving conspiracy, fraud, cheating and forgery was filed by the Office of…
Ikpeazu commissions ‘Half-Way Home’, restates commitment to vocational education
Governor Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia State has commissioned the Women & Youth Development Centre, (Half-Way Home) built by Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation/Total Upstream Nigeria Limited and partners, and donated to Abia…
FG announces plan to diversify energy supply sources
The Federal Government on Tuesday announced plans to diversify the country's energy supply sources to include renewable energy towards accelerating socio-economic development.
Minister of Science and Technology, Dr. Ogbonnaya…
Resettlement: No IDP shall be made to face undignified treatment, Zulum assures
By Michy Abraham in Maiduguri
Borno State Governor, Prof. Babagana Zulum has said no internally displaced persons shall be forced to relocate from the resettlement camps or made to face undignified treatment.
Speaking to Borno…
Court dismisses Mailafia’s application to stop police invitation
A High Court sitting in Jos on Tuesday dismissed an application by a former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Obadiah Mailafia, seeking to stop the Nigeria Police Force from investigating him.
Mailafia had…
P&ID: UK court orders release of $200m guarantee to Nigeria
A London court on Tuesday ordered the release of the $200m guarantee put in place as security for the stay of execution granted Nigeria for the appeal filed against the judgment for the execution of the Arbitral award of $10bn in…
School feeding programme: Minister denies diverting N2.72B
The Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Hajia Sadiya Umar Farouq, has dissociated herself from a trending report in the media titled “N2.72b for School Feeding During Lockdown Diverted To Private…
PIB: No plan to scrap NNPC says Timipre Sylva
Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Timipre Silva, has debunked reports that the new Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB), does not accommodate the existence of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC).
The Minister…
Indepence Anniversary: Federal Government declares Thursday, October 1, Public Holiday
The Federal Government has declared Thursday, October 1, as public holiday to mark the Nation’s 60th Independence Anniversary Celebration.
The Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, made the declaration on behalf of the Federal…
Former Kano Chief Judge, Atiku, laid to rest
Former Kano Chief Judge, Atiku, laid to res
The immediate past Chief Judge of Kano State High Court of Justice, Shehu Atiku, has been laid to rest in Kano.
Atiku died on Sunday.
The Public Relations Officer, Kano High Court, Baba…