The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Tuesday re-arraigned a former governor of Kaduna State, Muktar Ramalan Yero, before Justice M.G Umar of the Federal High Court, Kaduna, on an eight-count amended charge of money laundering. Mr Yero is being prosecuted by the EFCC alongside Nuhu Somo Wya (a former minister), Ishaq Hamsa (a…
Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, said Nigeria overcame the grim prediction of Bill Gates and other experts that it would collapse under the damaging economic effects of COVID-19. The minister spoke at the Third Annual Lecture of the Faculty of Arts, Ekiti University, Ado Ekiti. The lecture was titled, COVID-19: “The Economy and Security”. Aregbesola…
President Muhammad Buhari says Nigeria will offer the best support possible to ensure that the Republic of Cameroon remains an indivisible country. Mr Femi Adesina, the President’s spokesman in a statement, said Buhari stated this when he received Mr Felix Mbayu, a Special Envoy from President Paul Biya of Cameroon in the Presidential Villa, Abuja,…
Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo has called on the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) to review its import dues on premium motor spirit (PMS), better known as petrol. NAN reports that Osinbajo said this on Monday in Abuja at the fourth annual lecture and award presentation by ValueChain Magazine. He said the review would help to reduce pressure…
Gov. Douye Diri of Bayelsa has stressed the need for press freedom in Nigeria. This is contained in a statement issued to newsmen by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr Daniel Alabrah, in Yenagoa on Tuesday. According to the statement, Diri made the comment in Abuja on Monday during the House of Representatives Press Corps’ Annual…
By Rita Iliya Gov. Abubakar Bello of Niger has inaugurated the 2.4 kilometres broadcasting road in Minna on Monday at the cost of N1.3 billion. Bello, during the official inauguration said that the project was constructed by Messer Soject Nigeria Limited. According to him, one of the priorities of his administration is to develop critical…
By Ismaila Chafe President Muhammadu Buhari has received the Governors of Cross River and Zamfara, Ben Ayade and Bello Matawalle, respectively, who recently defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC) from the People’s Democratic Party (PDP). The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Ayade and Matawalle were accompanied to the event by the Chairman,…
By Ismaila Chafe Gov. Babagana Zulum of Borno, on Monday, briefed President Muhammadu Buhari on the planned repatriation of over 200,000 Nigerians displaced by insurgency and residing in Chad, Cameroun and Niger Republic. Speaking to State House correspondents after the closed door meeting with the president at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, Zulum disclosed that the…
By Yahaya Isah The Governor of Kogi, Alhaji Yahaya Bello, has called for the establishment of a Nigerian Air Force (NAF) Base in the state. A statement by the Director of Public Relations and Information, NAF, Air Commodore Edward Gabkwet, stated that Bello made the call when he paid a courtesy visit on the Chief…
