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*calls for collective efforts to end menace  *charges Igbo traders outside region  to live in peace with host communities *makes case for reviving of Igbo apprenticeship system  Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Benjamin Kalu, Friday, said that about N4 trillion has been lost to the stay-at-home problem...

Barely 24 hours after a Federal Capital Teritorry High Court sitting in Abuja ordered the release of the suspended Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele, from detention, another court has nullified his arrest, detention and interrogation by the Department of State Services (DSS), DailyTrust reports. In...

Chairman, North Central Governor’s Forum and Governor of Nasarawa State, Engineer Abdullahi Sule, said it’s time for the zone to assert its relevance politically and economically in the country. Engineer Sule stated this while playing host to officials of the North Central People’s Forum, led by its Chairman Board of...

Simon Ekpa, a self-acclaimed disciple of Nnamdi Kanu, detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), has responded to a statement made by Peter Obi on the sit-at-home directive in the south-east. The proscribed separatist group introduced sit-at-home to demand the release of Kanu who is being detained by...

The Special Assistant on Public Communications to Atiku Abubakar, Mr. Phrank Shaibu, has described President Bola Tinubu’s plan to hand out N8,000 to 12 million households for six months as a brazen attempt to divert public funds. Shaibu said in a statement that Tinubu’s plan to spend $800m on palliatives...

The Federal High Court in Abuja, on Thursday ordered security agencies in the country to provide maximum security to the candidate of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), in the November governorship election in Kogi State, Murtala Ajaka. Justice Inyang Edem Ekwo issued the order while delivering ruling in an ex-parte...

The people of Asaba, Delta State country home of the suspended Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Godwin Emefiele went into wild jubilation following news of an order granted by a Federal Capital Territory, FCT High Court for his release from detention. The High Court sitting in Abuja on...

A Federal High Court, Abuja on Thursday, dismissed a fundamental rights enforcement suit filed by Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra against the Department of State Services. Justice James Omotosho, in a judgment, held that Kanu’s suit lacked merit and ought to be dismissed. Kanu, in...

The Senate, on Thursday, confirmed the nomination of service chiefs and heads of security agencies newly appointed by President Bola Tinubu. This followed the screening of the top brass by the upper chamber. Senate President Godswill Akpabio said during the closed-door session, the service chiefs answered questions on defence-related matters...

The House of Representatives has approved the request of President Bola Tinubu for an amendment to the 2022 appropriation act. The approval followed Tinubu’s request for N500 billion for palliatives to Nigerians in order to reduce the hardship caused by subsidy removal. The amendment passed the first, second, and third...