Reactions have continued to trail the arrest of the self-acclaimed Prime Minister of Biafra, Simon Ekpa, with some South-East indigenes calling for his sentencing in Finland.
On Thursday last week, the Finnish authorities arrested Ekpa alongside four others and they were subsequently detained by the Päijät-Häme district court for “spreading terrorist propaganda on social media.”
The Finnish National Bureau of Investigation,...
The House of Representatives has approved Olufemi Oluyede as the Chief of Army Staff, COAS.
The confirmation came after a report was presented by Babajimi Benson, the chairman of the Committee on Defense.
Charmingpro reports that the Joint Committee on Army and Defense had screened Oluyede on Wednesday.
Recall that Oluyede was nominated by President Bola Tinubu as the Acting COAS due...
The Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics, ASUP has announced plans to embark on a two weeks warning strike, commencing from December 2nd, 2024.
The decision was arrived at the National Executive Council meeting of the Union in Abuja, on Thursday, where ASUP criticised government of reneging in implementing a number of demands tabled before them.
President of ASUP, Comrade Kpanja Shammah...
The House of Representatives has announced that it would hold a special session on Tuesday to deliberate on the tax bills.
The Deputy Speaker, Ben Kalu announced this on Thursday after a long closed-door session.
The House held a long closed-door session that lasted over one hour before resuming plenary session.
At the resumption of plenary, Mr Kalu announced that the special...
In faraway Paris, President Bola Tinubu has re-affirmed his administration’s commitment to prioritizing education for Nigerian children.
Tinubu made the pledge on Thursday while interacting with French President Emmanuel Macron at the Palais des Élysée in Paris.
He outlined plans to significantly reduce the number of out-of-school children through innovative return-to-class initiatives and skills development programs.
The President highlighted the government’s ongoing...
Akwa Ibom State government has declared Friday, November 29, 2024, a work-free day in honour of the late first lady, Mrs Patience Umo Eno.
This was contained in a statement by the Secretary to the State Government, SSA, Prince Enobong Uwah in Uyo, on Wednesday.
The SSG said the decision was to enable Akwa Ibom people and other well-wishers pay their...
A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Bode George has said President Bola Tinubu’s Special Adviser on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga would pay for insulting former President Olusegun Obasanjo.
Obasanjo had described Nigeria under Tinubu as a failing state while highlighting the pervasive corruption and leadership failure under Tinubu’s administration.
Condemning Obasanjo’s remark, Onanuga said the former president was
not...
Former Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello, who was billed to be arraigned at the FCT High Court on Wednesday, took over crowd control in the courtroom when Justice Maryann Anenih left out of anger.
Justice Anenih, who was supposed to take the plea of the former governor and two others, abruptly rose and announced she would not return until there...
The immediate past governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello, and two others, on Wednesday, pleaded not guilty to the 16-count charges brought against them by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).
Bello, who is the 1st defendant, vehemently denied the allegations before Justice Maryann Anenih as they were read out by the court registrar.
After taking their plea, the defendant’s...
Wednesday’s plenary at the Senate snowballed into anger and shouting match as the controversial Tax Reform Bill surfaced for debate despite not being captured on the Order Paper.
Trouble started when the Senate Leader, Michael Bamidele Opeyemi invoked Order 12(1) suspending the Senate Rules to allow the Chairman of Federal Inland Revenue Service to give clarification on Tax Reform Bill.
The...
