The UK Government says it will ban anyone found guilty of electoral offences and will also not hesitate to seize assets belonging to such offenders abroad. The British High Commission in Nigeia in a statement in Abuja on Tuesday said it maintains a strong stand against election related violence and […]
Day: September 15, 2020
Oil workers protest non functioning of 4 refineries, demand sack of Kyari
Oil workers on Tuesday ,outside the Port Harcourt Refinery complex, demanded the immediate sack of the Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation NNPC,Mele Kyari, over alleged incompetence. The workers under the unions,Petroleum Tanker Drivers,PTD arm of the National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers NUPENG, the […]
US visa ban: Oshiomhole, Ganduje,Bello ,affected
Top Nigerian politicians are affected by the recent United States visa restrictions. Top among them are former National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress APC Adams Oshiomhole,Kano State governor, Abdullahi Ganduje and Kogi State governor Yahaya Bello. Governor Nasir El-Rufai who was banned earlier,had his own ban extended. The politicians […]
VP Osinbajo jets off to Accra for ECOWAS summit
Nigeria’s Vice President,Yemi Osinbajo, has travelled to Accra, the Ghanaian capital to attend an Extra ordinary Summit of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). A statement by the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Office of the Vice President,Laolu Akande, said the meeting which […]
Police fault report on attack of Kaduna bound train
The Kaduna State Police Command has described as false reports that gunmen on Monday evening ,attacked a train which left Abuja for Kaduna The Command spokesman,Mohammed Jalige, told newsmen that some miscreants had thrown non aggressive objects at the moving train around Rijana village close to Kaduna thus putting at […]
Lawyers set to strip Malami of SAN title
The Attorney General of the Federation Abubakar Malami, may lose his Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN )title any time if the petition by lawyers against him holds sway. Malami had a few days after a splinter group of the Nigerian Bar Association energed, amended the rules of professional conduct for […]