Edo State governor, Godwin Obaseki, has said Nigeria will collapse if the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC) wins the 2023 presidential election. Speaking on Monday in Benin city, during the swearing-in of members of the Edo state Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) campaign council management committee, the governor said, the APC has done so much damage…
The Securities and Exchange Commission has said it is working with the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) for better understanding and regulation of cryptocurrencies. The Director General, Lamido Yuguda, stated this at the 2021 first post-Capital Market Committee (CMC) virtual news conference. Yuguda said the SEC was in discussion with the CBN to understand better…
The Secretary General of the Rev. Yakubu Pam faction of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) in the 19 Northern states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Elder Sunday Oibe, has said that the purported election of Rev. Joseph Hayab, as the chairman of the association, is illegal, null and void. Oibe stated this at…
A mother, Khadija Ali has been arrested by the police in Abuja for allegedly abandoning her newborn baby. Ali was reported to have dumped the baby along a bush path near Crush Rock, behind the uncompleted Red Bricks Market in Mpape, Abuja. The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) police command, in a statement on Sunday by…
Uba Sani, governor of Kaduna state, has observed that despite several alleviation programmes, the nation’s poverty index has been on the increase. Sani made the observation on Saturday when Nentawe Yilwatda, minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, paid him a courtesy visit at the Government House, Kaduna. He said the fact that…
A former Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN) Mohammed Uwais has died at the age of 88. The former CJN died in the early hours of Friday, according to the Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice of Ondo State, Dr Kayode Ajulo. Born in Zaria, Kaduna state, Uwais served as Chief Justice of Nigeria from 1995…
