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Abuja

March 13, 2024

Tinubu asks Senate to confirm Onwudiwe as CBN board member

Mr Tinubu’s request was in a letter addressed to Senate President Godswill Akpiabio and read at the plenary on Wednesday in Abuja.

President Bola Tinubu (Credit: Presidency)
March 13, 2024

Lawyer arraigned for assaulting commercial sex worker

Mr Okeke told the court that the defendant had sex with the complainant.

March 12, 2024

Mob burns vehicles, shops in Wuse after correctional officers kill convict on way to prison

“Two armed corrections personnel who were in the vehicle went after him and, in the process, shot him.”

Mob
March 12, 2024

Embattled Senator Ningi resigns as Northern Senators Forum chair

Senator Abdul Ahmed Ningi, representing the Bauchi Central senatorial district, has resigned as the chair of the Northern Senators Forum.

Senator Abdul Ningi
March 12, 2024

NYSC director-general inaugurates president’s award committee

NYSC director-general Yusha’u Ahmed has inaugurated a 13-member committee for the President’s NYSC Honours Award National Selection.

Brig.-Gen. Yusha’u Ahmed
March 12, 2024

FCT Abductions: Wike says Abuja safe for foreigners to conduct business

Mr Wike stated this when Poland’s ambassador to Nigeria, Joanna Tarnawska, visited him in Abuja on Tuesday.

Polish Ambassador Joanna Tarnawska and FCT minister Nyesom Wike (Credit: NAN)
March 12, 2024

No-case Submission: Court grants disgraced UNICAL professor’s plea to appeal ruling

On March 6, the judge dismissed Messrs Ndifon and Anyanwu’s no-case submission.

Cyril Ndifon and UNICAL
March 12, 2024

Lawmaker begs government to protect Ikere-Ekiti against marauding herdsmen

“The Fulani herders have carried out a series of terrible destruction on our farmlands,” said the legislator.

Ekiti governor, Biodun Oyebanji
March 12, 2024

FCTA says N4.4 billion disbursed to area councils, pension, teachers

FCT Minister of State Mariya Mahmoud disclosed this while presiding over the 186th Joint Account Allocation Committee meeting in Abuja on Tuesday.

FCT Minister of State Mariya Mahmoud
March 12, 2024

Rivers Assembly Fire: Governor Fubara loyalists’ arson trial stalled

The five defendants, who are loyalists of Governor Siminalayi Fubara, were on January 25 arraigned on seven counts bordering on terrorism and murder.

Siminalayi Fubara and Rivers State House of Assembly