Indication emerged yesterday that the Presidency will not allow the impeachment of Senate President Senator Godswill Akpabio in spite of grumblings among lawmakers. A Presidency source told LEADERSHIP in confidence yesterday that the president was more inclined to saving Akpabio ...
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Umahi Laments Bad Federal Roads, N14trn Debt
Minister of Works, Dave Umahi, has expressed deep concern over the state of road projects in the country and the staggering N14 trillion debt inherited by the federal government. Umahi disclosed this to State House correspondents after meeting with President ...
Read More »Strike: Federal Govt, Labour Meeting Deadlocked As Talks Continue
The meeting between the federal government and the leadership of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC ) as part of move to avert the impending indefinite strike action by workers ended without reaching any resolution on Monday. However, both parties have ...
Read More »UNGA 78: Kwara Gov To Address Summit On Migration, Others
Kwara State governor, AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq, has been slated to deliver speeches during the 78th United Nations General Assembly, (UNGA) in New York, United States. The governor’s chief press secretary, Rafiu Ajakaye, in a statement on Monday said Abdulrazaq, who doubles ...
Read More »23 States Grow Foreign Loans By 64 Per Cent
TWENTY-Three Nigerian states grew bilateral loans by 64.26 per cent in six months to $462.81m as of the end of June. Most of the loans were taken from China, India, France and other countries. This was despite the persistent fall ...
Read More »Three Nabbed For alleged Murder, Organ Harvesting In Rivers
The Rivers State Police Command said its men arrested three suspects in connection with the alleged killing and organ harvesting of a man identified as Progress in Ogbaraye community, Abua/Odual Local Government Area of the state. This came barely two ...
Read More »Telecoms Investments In Nigeria Grow to $77bn From $38bn – NCC Boss, Danbatta
The Executive Vice-Chairman, Nigerian Communications Commission, Prof. Umar Danbatta has said that telecoms investment inflow grew from $38 billion to $77 billion by the second quarter of 2023 Danbatta, who made the disclosure at a media chat with stakeholders in ...
Read More »Akpabio Planted Impeachment Story To Spite Tinubu Against Northerners, Senator Alleges
The lawmaker representing Adamawa North Senatorial District, Senator Ishaku Abbo, has asserted that the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, along with his associates, were the ones who disseminated the story about his rumored intention to impeach him. Abbo further added that ...
Read More »Bawa’s Detention: EFCC’s Battle To Sustain Anti-Corruption War
Since the arrest of the embattled Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Abdulrasheed Bawa, there seems to be an unusual quiet from the anti-graft agency, especially with the unactualised threat to arrest some of the immediate past governors ...
Read More »UNDP, Others Train Police Officers On International Best Practices
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), German government and CLEEN Foundation have trained Nigeria Police Force personnel on attitude change and international best practices for police officers. Speaking at the event, UNDP ‘s senior police training advisor, Adewale Ajadi, said: ...
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