Former Minister of Aviation Hadi Sirika, his brother, Ahmad Sirika, and a firm, Enginos Nigeria Limited, have been arraigned on a fresh 10-count charge of contract fraud. The embattled ex-minister was arraigned before Justice Suleman Belgore of the FCT High Court sitting in Garki, Abuja, on Thursday. In the new charge, the Economic and Financial…
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Parliament has elected the first female speaker in the annals of the regional legislative arm. The New Speaker of the Community Parliament, Memounatou Ibrahima, from Togo, was elected at the 2024 Second Extraordinary Session of the Sixth Legislature of the Community Parliament in Kano. She emerged speaker…
A former Vice-president, Atiku Abubakar, says he will keep contesting for the Nigerian presidency as long as he is hale and hearty. He said this during an interview on the Hausa service of the Voice of America in Abuja. Atiku, 77, who was the flagbearer of PDP in the 2023 election, will be 81 by…
InsertRetry The world number one downed Germany’s Yannick Hanfmann 6-3, 6-3 in the second round at the Parc des Eaux-Vives grounds. Djokovic becomes only the third man after Jimmy Connors and Roger Federer to reach the 1,100-win landmark. Djokovic took a wild card to play in Geneva in a bid to rescue an alarming dip…
Former model Crystal McKinney said Tuesday that Combs had forced her to perform oral sex on him at a party in 2003. The assault occurred after she was “pressured to imbibe” alcohol and marijuana, including a joint she believed to be laced with another narcotic, the lawsuit said. Combs is the target of several civil…
The security agents were a combined team of men of the Nigeria Police Force and operatives of the Department of State Services. Ayambem was impeached over alleged gross misconduct and administrative high handedness. Findings revealed that the plot to remove Anyambem had been on for months as members have been expressing misgivings at his conduct…
Trump’s latest incendiary claim was in response to a court filing outlining plans for the FBI search at the Mar-a-Lago club, where he kept classified national security documents after leaving the White House. The filing included standard FBI wording stating that agents are allowed to use deadly force if someone is in imminent danger. But…
The Organised Labour rejected the government’s fresh offer, the third proposal in about a week when negotiation talks resumed on Wednesday. Both the NLC and the TUC, however, shifted ground from their initial ₦615,000 to ₦497,000. A prominent member of the Tripartite Committee for the negotiation of a new minimum wage for Nigerian workers told…
A Federal High Court in Abuja has granted the former commander of the Force Intelligence Response Team, DCP Abba Kyari, two weeks’ bail after 27 months in detention. Kyari is expected to conclude his mother, Yachilla Kyari’s burial rites. The court subsequently set Friday, May 31, for the determination of his bail application in the…
