The Federal Operations Unit Zone ‘B’ Nigerian Customs Service, Kaduna, has impounded sacks of pangolin scales worth N3.9 billion. Addressing a press conference on Wednesday in Kaduna, Ahmadu Shuaibu, comptroller of the unit, said the pangolin scales which weighed 445.45kg were impounded in the suburbs of Zuru Town in Kebbi State on Friday, May 24…
Chairman of the Nigerian Governors’ Forum (NGF) and governor of Ekiti state, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, has announced the implementation of autonomy for state legislature and judiciary, with effect from May. The governor disclosed this while addressing State House correspondents on Monday. According to him, the decision was reached during a meeting attended by federal lawmakers,…
A coalition of 40 social cultural groups across the north, under the umbrella of “The unified Northern Nigeria Youths Forum”, have called on the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Dr. Godwin Emefiele to contest for the 2023 Presidency. Addressing a press conference on Sunday in Kaduna, after a procession in support of…
The police in Lafia, Nasarawa state have reportedly arrested 38 people during a protest against Friday’s Supreme Court judgment that affirmed the election of Abdullahi Sule as governor of the state. Some aggrieved supporters of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), mostly youths were said to have staged the protest at the PDP secretariat in Lafia…
The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), has elected Yakubu Maikyau, a senior advocate of Nigeria (SAN), as its president. Announcing the result of the election, the Electoral Committee of the Nigerian Bar Association (ECNBA), said Maikyau polled a total of 22,342 to Joe Gazama, (SAN) who polled 10,842 votes while Jonathan Taidi, scored 1,373 votes. A…
Disengaged staff members of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), who were laid off in a mass redundancy last year, have taken the apex bank to the National Industrial Court of Nigeria in Abuja. The Punch newspapers reports that the aggrieved former staff members, according , in an originating summons filed on July 4, 2024,…
