President Bola Tinubu has approved the appointment of Engr. Chukwuemeka Woke as the Director-General/Chief Executive Officer of the National Oil Spill Detection and Response Agency (NOSDRA). Ajuri Ngelale, Special Adviser to the President (Media & Publicity) disclosed this in a statement on Wednesday. Furthermore, Ngelale said that the President had approved the appointment of Dr….
Justice Ambrose Lewis-Allagoa of a Federal High Court in Lagos has ordered all warring factions of the Lagos Country Club to maintain status quo, pending the hearing of a suit filed by its Registered Trustees to halt the conduct of the Annual General Meeting (AGM). The judge made the order on Wednesday following an application…
The youngest Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential aspirant in the lead up to the 2023 general elections, Dr. Ugochukwu Williams, has dumped the PDP. The aspirant who threw his hat in the ring for the PDP ticket at age 38 disclosed this in a resignation letter he addressed to the Chairman of Chokoneze/Akpodim/Ife Ward of…
● As state assembly dethrones Emir Bayero, others Sanusi Lamido Sanusi II has been reinstated as the Emir of Kano, according ti a report by LEADERSHIP newspaper. This decision followed the Kano State House of Assembly’s resolution to dethrone the current Emir and also dismantle the four new Emirates in the State established under a…
The Kano State House of Assembly has passed Kano Emirates Council law (repeal bill) 2024 after scaling 3rd reading. The law has abrogated establishment of 5 new Emirates in the state. All offices established under the repealed law have been set aside by the new bill. Also all district heads elevated or appointed under the…
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…
Complaints Commission and chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Parry, PDP, in Edo State, Otunba Oladele Bankole-Balogun, has resigned from the party. His resignation letter dated 23rd May 2024 was addressed to the chairman OF PDP Ward 1 in Ugbogo, Igarra. Read the ketter that is reproduced hereunder in extenso: I am writing to formally resign…
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…
