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Nigeria is in the vortex of economic meltdown with inflation galloping into distressing heights. For the average Nigerians, times are hard, with prices of food items, electricity, gas and other household items skyrocketing in a manner never witnessed before. This development has created an atmosphere of pressure so choking that meeting the challenge of everyday…
By News Desk Of all Femi Otedola’s business interventions, there’s none that scores a greater bulls eye than his recent emergence as the biggest single shareholder of Nigeria’s oldest financial institution, First Bank of Nigeria Plc (FBN). The mercurial billionaire had been in contention with the bank’s Chairman, Tunde Hassan-Odukale, since October 2021 for the…
By News Desk The Comptroller General of Nigeria Immigration Services (NIS), Isah Jere Idris, has thrown more lights on the controversy surrounding the issuance of Nigerian passport to Mr David Ukpo Nwamina. Idris in a press statement he personally signed and made available to Newsmen in Abuja on Monday explained that the immigration service adhered…
By News Desk The Kogi West Senator, Smart Adeyemi, has said Senators would not abandon former Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu amid the controversy of organ harvesting. Adeyemi said Senators are making efforts to see how to support Ekweremadu despite the allegations of organ harvesting. Ekweremadu and his wife, Beatrice were accused of trafficking an…
By Our Reporter The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has confirmed Bashir Machina as the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) for Yobe north senatorial district. Machina, at a primary organised by the party in May, had won unopposed. However, there were speculations that he was being asked to step down for Senate President…
By our reporter Former Comptroller General of the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), Muhammad Babandede, has reacted to the arrest of ex-Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu amid controversy of alleged organ harvesting. Babandede, who appeared on Arise TV on Friday morning Show monitored by THEANALYSTNG in Lokoja, insisted that Ekweremadu’s issue is a case of trafficking…
By our reporter Unknown Gunmen have attacked the Okehi Area Command of the Nigeria Police Command in Kogi State,in the early hours of Friday and killed an inspector of police. The Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO for the Police Command in the state),SP William Ovye Aya, disclosed this in a statement he signed and made…
By News Desk The Supreme Court has thrown out the suit President Muhammadu Buhari and the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr. Abubakar Malami, SAN, filed to void section 84 (12) of the Electoral Act, 2022. The apex court, in a unanimous decision by a seven-man panel of the Justices led by…
By Musa Tanimu Nasidi Rights activist, Mr Femi Falana (SAN) has revealed that the only way the All Progressives Congress (APC) can present Senators Ahmad Lawan and Godswill Akpabio as its senatorial candidates ahead of next year’s election is if Bashir Machina and Udom Ekpoudom “voluntarily withdraw”. Falana also said that it is “brazen impunity”…
By Abdulwahid Aliyu A three-man panel of the Court of Appeal, Lagos Division, on Thursday, upheld the conviction of a former Managing Director of the defunct Bank PHB Plc, Francis Atuche, as well as the bank’s former Chief Financial Officer, Ugo Anyanwu. Mr Atuche and his co-convict, Mr Anyanwu, had approached the appellate court to…
