The Court of Appeal sitting in Yola, Adamawa state, has set aside the ruling of high courts nullifying the primary elections that produced Emmanuel Bwacha of Taraba state and Aishatu Binani of Adamawa state as governorship candidates of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the two states. The court on Thursday ordered that their names…
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has declared a two-week warning strike over dissatisfaction with the federal government’s response to its demands. Addressing a press conference on Sunday in Abuja, ASUU president, Chris Piwuna said the strike would begin on October 13 and would be observed across all branches of the union nationwide. He…
The Commandant of the Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA), Kaduna, Maj.-Gen Ibrahim Yusuf, has briefed the House of Representatives Committee on Defence on the recent attack by bandits on the institution. On August 24, bandits invaded the school at about 2am killed two officers, abducted one and injured one. The abducted officer is yet to be…
Gunmen on Monday night stormed Bishop Matthew Kukah’s Anchuna village in Ikulu Chiefdom, Zangon Kataf Local Government Area of Kaduna state, abducting the Catholic priest in the community. Sources said the bandits came to the community at about 8pm and whisked away Rev. Fr. Luka Yakusak who is in charge of St. Matthew’s Catholic Church,…
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Governors’ Forum, has frowned at the nation’s rising and seemingly uncontrollable debt profile. The governors also expressed concern about the operations of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), maintaining that the apex bank “is operating as an independent government within a government, which is a pervasion of the autonomy of…
President Muhamadu Buhari has approved the withdrawal of $150m from the Sovereign Wealth Fund (SWF) for distribution to the three tiers of government.Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Mrs. Zainab Ahmed, disclosed this at a media briefing on Monday, in Abuja.The briefing was centred on the fiscal policy measures being adopted by the federal…
