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Coalition Takes ‘Emefile Must Go’ Protest To Presidential Villa

NewsDeskNgDec 22, 2022December 22, 20220

The Coalition Against Corrupt Leaders in Nigeria (CACLN), on Thursday, held a peaceful protest to the Presidential Villa demanding for Godwin Emefiele’s dismissal as Central Bank of Nigeria Governor. The protesters lamented Emefiele’s policy summersaults and inconsistencies that have hurt the country’s economy in unimaginable ways and made it a...

Experts give Nigerian Army pass mark in fight against insurgency

NewsDeskNgDec 21, 2022December 21, 20220

A cross-section of security experts from across the country has scored the Nigerian Army high on its efforts in combating insurgency, especially in the last one year. The security experts who spoke at the presentation of the Annual Report On The Federal Government’s War Against Insecurity/Insurgency In Nigeria by the...

: Court convicts Peter Obi campaign DG, Doyin Okupe for money laundering

NewsDeskNgDec 19, 2022December 19, 20220

A federal high court in Abuja has convicted the director-general of Peter Obi presidential campaign, Doyin Okupe, for money laundering, Vanguard reports. Recall that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, had arraigned Okupe in 2019 on a 59-count charge bordering on alleged money laundering and diversion of funds to...

Inflation rate hits 21.47% in November – NBS

NewsDeskNgDec 16, 2022December 16, 20220

Headline inflation rate increased to 21.47 per cent on a year-on-year basis in November, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), has said. It made the declaration in its Consumer Price Index (CPI) and Inflation Report for November 2022 released in Abuja on Thursday. According to the report, the increase is...

3,167 inmates on death row – NCoS

NewsDeskNgDec 16, 2022December 16, 20220

There are 3,167 inmates on death row, spokesman of the Nigeria Correctional Service, Assistant Controller of Corrections, Mr Umar Abubakar said in Abuja on Thursday. They comprise 3,105 males and 62 females, he told newsmen. He added that the correctional centres currently have 19,140 male and 339 female convicts. “As...

Train Crushes Driver, Car In Abuja

NewsDeskNgDec 15, 2022December 15, 20220

A train crushed a woman and her car as she tried to drive across the train tracks in the Kubwa area of Abuja on Thursday. Multiple Twitter users claim the incident happened on Thursday morning. Meanwhile, an eyewitness, Olisa Ogbechie, alleged the police used force to chase people, who wanted...

I’ve Enough To Survive Another Eight Years Of Bad Leadership, Aisha Yesufu Boasts

NewsDeskNgDec 9, 2022December 9, 20220

Nigerian activist, Aisha Yesufu, has boasted that she has enough passive income to survive another eight years of bad leadership in Nigeria. She said this via her Twitter handle on Thursday. Yesufu, who supports Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, was responding to critics who said the presidential candidate of...

EFCC launches manhunt for Kano APC senatorial candidate over ‘$1.3m fraud’

NewsDeskNgDec 6, 2022December 6, 20220

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) says it is making efforts to arrest Abdulsalam Zaura, the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate for Kano central senatorial district, over alleged fraud. Ahmad Rogha, counsel to EFCC, said this on Monday while speaking with journalists at the federal high court in Kano....

JUST IN: Dogara dumps APC for PDP

NewsDeskNgDec 5, 2022December 5, 20220

A few days after endorsing the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, a former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, has returned to the main opposition party. The former lawmaker was received into the party on Monday during the presidential campaign rally in Lagos State....

Peter Obi Condemns Killing Of LP Women Leader In Kaduna

NewsDeskNgNov 30, 2022November 30, 20220

The presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, on Tuesday, condemned the killing of the party’s women leader in Kaura, Kaduna State, Victoria Chintex. Chintex was killed at her residence in Kaura on Monday with her husband injured. Condemning the killing, Obi, in a statement shared on his Twitter...