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The Arewa Professional Group (APG), comprising various professionals from all walks of life as well as elder statesmen and women of substance of Northern extraction have called on the leadership of the House of Representatives, the Senate of the Federal Republic and President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to put an end...

A British court has ordered an ex-lawyer of former Delta State Governor, James Ibori to pay £28 million for helping to hide funds gained illegally. Bhadresh Gohil, an Indian lawyer, was convicted in 2010 of 13 counts of money laundering and other offences linked to his role in helping Ibori...

The Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors on Tuesday night declared an indefinite strike. The President of NARD, Dr Emeka Orji, who disclosed this to our correspondent said the strike will begin Wednesday, July 26, 2023, at 12am. Orji said, the decision was made during its July National Executive Council meeting...

The National Industrial Court in Abuja has dismissed the suit filed by the Academic staff union of Nigeria (ASUU) challenging the registration of Congress of Nigerian University Academics, CONUA and Nigeria Association of Medical and Dental Academics, NAMDA, as trade unions by the federal government. The President of the court,...

The Osun State Governor, Senator Ademola Adeleke, has suspended the Rector of the Osun State Polytechnic, Dr Tajudeen Odetayo, in the light of corruption allegations levelled against him. According to a July 11, 2023 memo by the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Education, Muritala Jimoh, addressed to the Acting Registrar of...

The Vice Chancellor of the University of Abuja, Prof. Abdul Rasheed Na’Allah, says it has become compulsory for every student of the institution to register a company as a pre-requisite for graduation. Addressing journalists on some of his administration’s achievements in the last four years, Na’Allah said his team had...

There’s growing outrage following the violent clash between the officials of the Nigeria Correctional Service, NCoS and operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS), over the custody of suspended Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Godwin Emefiele, at the premises of the Federal High Court in Ikoyi,...

The Federal High Court in Lagos has granted bail to the suspended Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele, in the sum of N20 million, with one surety providing a similar amount. Justice Nicholas Oweibo granted bail to Emefiele after considering the arguments presented by Emefiele’s counsel,...

Former Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Timi Frank, has called on the Inspector General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun, to urgently reopen probe into circumstances leading to the extrajudicial murder of a young man by police in Bayelsa State during the tenure of Chief Timipre...

The Enugu State Government on Monday sealed shops in major markets across the state that refused to do business in observance of the sit-at-home order of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB). This comes after last week’s warning by Governor Peter Mbah that businesses in the state should open for...