During a heated Senate session on Wednesday, Senate President Godswill Akpabio made a striking statement, declaring, “Cows are not citizens of Nigeria,” while addressing a senator’s controversial remarks regarding the ongoing farmer-herder clashes in the country. The remark came amid discussions surrounding the proposed National Animal Husbandry and Ranches Commission bill, which aims to control…
The Olowu of Kuta, His Imperial Majesty, Oba Adekunle Oyelude Makama (CON) has described former President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo as a timeless statesman whose presence will be felt many years after his generation. Oba Makama, who congratulated Chief Obasanjo for enjoying a healthily long life, asserted that God purposely…
The Soun of Ogbomoso, Oba Ghandi Olaoye, has said that Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi, has a lot to teach monarchs across the country. Oba Olaoye stated this when he visited Oba Ogunwusi in his palace on Wednesday. The Ooni of Ife described Oba Olaoye’s ascension to the throne of his forebears as divinely…
The Federal Government may have set in motion a plan to suspend the payment of import duties on staple food items, drugs, and other essential items for an initial period of six months as a measure to curb inflation. This was contained in an Executive Order expected to be issued by the President titled, “Inflation…
A Federal High Court in Lagos has granted an order for the interim forfeiture of property valued at N11.14 billion allegedly linked to former Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, governor, Mr. Godwin Emefiele. Trial judge, Justice Chukwujekwu Aneke, granted the order following an-ex parte application filed and argued by Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC,…
The People’s Democratic Party, PDP, has said that it is not in merger talks with any political party ahead of the 2027 elections. It will be recalled that former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar and Peter Obi, presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in the 2023 elections, had a private meeting in Abuja on May 13,…
The Senate has on Wednesday, approved a bill that grants a 300 per cent salary increase for judicial officers at the federal and state levels. The Red Chamber approved the report presented by the Senate Committee on Judiciary, Human Rights, and Legal Matters, chaired by Senator Mohammed Tahir Monguno (APC- Borno North), to the lawmakers….
The Nigerian Army authorities have finally issued a warrant to commit a former Group Managing Director and Executive Vice Chairman of the Nigerian Army Properties Limited, Maj. Gen. Umaru Muazu Mohammed, to prison. Mohammed’s warrant of committal to prison came a week after he was illegally put in Kuje Prison. A top military source on Tuesday…
Osun State chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has disowned a former governor of the state, Rauf Aregbesola.Chairman of the party, Mr. Tajudeen Lawal disclosed this in a communiqué after a stakeholders’ meeting at the state secretariat in Osogbo on Tuesday. According to the chairman, the former minister of interior had committed various anti-party…
President Bola Tinubu has approved the naming of the full-scope Arterial road N20 from Northern Parkway to the Outer Northern Expressway (otherwise called the Murtala Mohammed Expressway) as the Wole Soyinka Way. The President stated this during his address at the inauguration of the road in Abuja on Tuesday, where he described the 89-year-old playwright…
