A Federal High Court in Abuja has ordered that a former Minister of Power, Saleh Mamman, be remanded in Kuje prison, Abuja, pending the consideration of his bail application. The presiding judge, James Omotosho, issued the order on Thursday after the court resumed Mamman’s arraignment on money laundering charge, which was earlier stepped down by…
President Muhammadu Buhari, has declared that he will not allowed any presidential aspirant who raise an army of thugs to force himself on the people. Buhari stated this in an address on Thursday at the place of Alhaji Muhammadu Isa II, the emir of Jama’a, Kaduna state. Buhari was in Kafanchan, headquarters of Jama’a Local Government…
The Labour Party (LP) has reportedly won the Bogoro Councillorship Election in Lusa B Ward, Bauchi State, without fielding a candidate. Local government elections in the state, held on Saturday, with the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), sweeping all the Chairmanship positions amid allegations of manipulation by the opposition All Progressives Congress (APC). According to…
The Plateau State Council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) has urged security agencies to fish out perpetrators of Thursday’s ambush on Senator Nora Dadu’ut and her entourage in Namu, Qu’anpan Local Government Area of the state. Dadu’ut who represents Plateau South Senatorial District, was said to have been attacked by a mob shortly…
The federal government has set up a committee to carry out major changes to the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC). Inaugurating the committee on Tuesday in Abuja, the Minister of Youth Development, Ayodele Olawande, noted that the NYSC has played an important role in building national unity and helping young people since it was east…
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has rejected the offer of salary increase by the federal government. In a statement issued on Thursday signed by its president, Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke, ASUU accused the government repudiating a salary package arrived at through a collective bargaining during negotiation. The university lecturers had been on strike for about…
