The Supreme Court on Friday ended the 19-year legal dispute over the right location of the headquarters of Ilejemeje Local Government Area of Ekiti State. Resting the case in its judgment, a five-man bench of the apex court unanimously ordered the Ekiti State Government to immediately restore the headquarters of the local government to Eda-Oniyo […]

Assistant Commissioner of Police in charge of Human Trafficking, Ms Chioma Ajunwa on Friday gave a shocking statistics of 3.4 million Africans that have been trafficked across the world for forced Labour. Ajunwa, a retired Nigerian sprinter made the disclosure on Friday at the official unveiling of the logo of Kick Against Human Trafficking and […]

Retirees, under the aegis of Nigeria Union of Pensioners, Contributory Pension Scheme Sector (NUPCPS), have written to President Muhammadu Buhari, applauding his administration as the best they have seen in 14 years of the pension scheme.’ This was revealed in a release issued by Femi Adesina, Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity. […]

Nigeria’s inflation rate rose slightly in November over that of 2017, with price increases across a broad range of products. Announcing this on Friday, the National Bureau of Statistics, NBS, said November’s consumer inflation was up 11.28 percent from a year ago, versus 11.26 percent in October. Food inflation was at 13.30 percent over the […]

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Thursday failed in another desperate bid to get the courts to sanction its expulsion of Senator Buruji Kashamu and his associates from the party. Justice Valentine Ashi of the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory in Apo, affirmed its earlier decision nullifying the expulsion of the senator and associates. […]

President Muhammadu Buhari has appointed Suleiman Hassan as the new Minister of Environment. The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr Garba Shehu, disclosed this on Thursday in Abuja. Prior to the appointment, Hassan was the Minister of State for Power, Works and Housing. According to Shehu, the President made the […]

A bill to amend the 1999 Constitution of Nigeria to reintroduce a parliamentary system of government has passed first reading in the House of Representatives. Nigeria practiced the British-styled “Westminster” parliamentary system until the collapse of the First Republic on January 15, 1966 when the military took power. The 1979 Constitution introduced the country to […]

The Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ibrahim Magu Thursday told Justice Doris T. Okuwobi of the State High Court, Ikeja, Lagos that he had never been investigated by the Department of State Security, DSS. Magu stated this while giving evidence in a N100m suit he filed against the publisher of […]