President Bola Tinubu has signed the Judicial Office Holders Salaries and Allowances Bill into law. The Special Adviser to the President on Senate Matters, Senator Basheer Lado, disclosed this in a statement in Abuja on Tuesday. The National Assembly had in June approved a bill that grants a 300 per cent salary increase for judicial…
The Northern Ethnic Youths Group Assembly (NEYGA) has issued a scathing statement, calling on Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello, to address the press and disclose his location to clear his name amidst allegations of funding protests against the Nigerian government. In a statement issued by its spokesperson, Ibrahim Dan-Musa, the group accused Bello of involvement…
Vice President Kashim Shettima has traced youth restiveness in the north that manifested itself in the just concluded End Bad Governance protest to destitute of leadership in the region. The nationwide protest against hardship was marred by violence, vandalisation and looting particularly in the region. The incidents that made worrying viewing were put down to…
Former governor of Oyo state, Senator Rashidi Adewolu Ladoja, has officially received the Ibadan beaded crown after seven years of resistance. Ladoja was presented the crown on Monday by Bayo Lawal, acting governor of the state, during a ceremony held at the palace of Owolabi Olakulehin, the Olubadan of Ibadanland. Ladoja, the Otun Olubadan, is…
Former Managing Director of Bank of Industry (BoI) Kayode Pitan has taken over from Pastor Charles Kpandei as the head pastor of the City of David Parish, Lagos of the Redeemed Christian Church of God. Pitan’s appointment is coming months after the suspension of Pastor Idowu Iluyomade over the church’s finances. Kpandei was temporarily assigned…
Otunba Gbenga Daniel, former Governor of Ogun State, has revealed how much of a naturalist Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka has been while recounting how Soyinka turned down his offer to tar the road leading to his residence because he preferred the road untarred. He also noted that the Nobel Laureate said he preferred getting…
Prince Bayo Osiyemi, an ex-Chief Press Secretary to Lagos State’s first civilian governor, Alhaji Lateef Jakande, has disclosed how Chief Mike Adenuga, CEO of Globacom Limited, was secretly transported into exile during the Major Gideon Orkar-led military coup against the Gen. Ibrahim Babangida administration on April 22, 1990. Osiyemi in his memoir due for launch…
Chidi Odinkalu, a Professor of Practice in International Human Rights Law at the Fletcher School at Tufts University, has revealed that Justice Sylvanus Oriji of the Federal Capital Territory High Court, Abuja, who gave the order restricting protesters of the just concluded End Bad Governance demonstration to MKO Abiola Stadium, Abuja, hails from Obi Akpor…
The Presidency has cleared the air on the controversy over the N573 billion received by states. It said the fund is a World Bank loan, which the Federal Government guaranteed, and not a grant. It explained that the issue of whether it was a grant or a loan should not be at the centre of…
The general overseer of the Redeemed Christian church of God, RCCG Pastor Enoch Adejare Adeboye, has reiterated that corruption is at its peak because majority of Christians who are supposed to be peculiar people and make a difference have compromised. Calling on Christians to shun a lifestyle of double standards, at the day six of…
