The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) has disclosed that it has commenced payment of the N30,000 new national minimum wage to civil servants of the FCT. Director, FCT Treasury Department, Ismaila Ishiaku, made this known at a media briefing in ...
Read More »Don’t be afraid, do the right thing, Buhari tells auditors, public servants
President Muhammadu Buhari has charged public servants and government officials not to be afraid of audit if they have done the right thing and encouraged them to see audit as a means of improving their performance and not as a ...
Read More »Oba of Benin urges Ganduje to reverse creation of new emirates
The Oba of Benin, Omo N’Edo, Uku Akpolokpolo, Ewuare II has pleaded with Kano State Governor Abdullahi Ganduje to reconsider reversing the creation of new emirates in the state. The first-class monarch and paramount ruler of Benin Kingdom made the ...
Read More »Bichi, Rano challenge Tofa, others over new emirates
Bichi and Rano emirates in Kano State has raised fresh application challenging the interlocutory injunction filed by Kano Concerned Elders against the new emirate council laws. In their separate applications before Kano Chief Judge, Justice Nura Sagir, the communities sought ...
Read More »Anambra community falls out with PG, seeks governor’s intervention
The Eziowelle Community in Idemili North Council Area of Anambra State has fallen out with its leader, a development that is causing disaffection in the town. A crowd comprising men, women and youths from the community, carried placards and stormed ...
Read More »Shehu Sani kicks as court grants him bail, says his travail politically motivated
Civil rights activist, Senator Shehu Sani, has said that it is time to prove that his trial by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) over allegation of extortion is politically motivated. He was, however, granted N10 million bail and ...
Read More »Buhari charged to expose Boko Haram sponsors as N’East as IDPs get N98b aid from European Union
Director-General of Centre for Justice on Religion and Ethnicity in Nigeria, Kallamu Dikwa, has charged President Muhammadu Buhari to expose the financiers of Boko Haram in the country before the terrorist group plunges the nation into a religious war. According ...
Read More »Igbo group mobilises protesters against EEDC in South East
The Pro-Unity social service group, Ndigbo Unity Forum (NUF) has mobilised electricity consumers in the South East to protest “unwholesome activities” of the Enugu Electricity Distribution Company (EEDC). In Awka, Anambra State capital, where the group carried out its mobilisation ...
Read More »Benue recovers N800m from fraudulent deals in SUBEB as Ortom vows to prosecute culprits
Benue State Governor Samuel Ortom has announced the recovery of over N800 million from fraudulent deals at the State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB). He vowed to bring all contractors who failed to renovate or build primary schools, after collecting ...
Read More »DPR seals 24 gas outlets, rejects 20 applications for licences in Rivers
The Department for Petroleum Resources (DPR) in Rivers State has sealed 24 illegal gas outlets and rejected over 20 applications for license by gas dealers over failure to meet standard operational requirements. Its Zonal Controller, Bassey Nkanga, disclosed this in ...
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