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The Governorship Election Petitions Tribunal sitting in Umuahia, Abia State, Friday upheld the election of Governor Okezie Ikpeazu for a second term in office. In reaching the verdict, the three-man panel dismissed the petition filed by the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Alex Otti.   The tribunal, in the verdict read […]

  President Muhammadu Buhari’s recent replacement of the Economic Management Team (EMT) headed by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo with an Economic Advisory Council (EAC) headed by Prof. Doyin Salami has led to speculations on the import of this move, including for the continued relevance of Osinbajo, (seen, at least during the government’s first term in […]

United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc, on Thursday, announced that the services of its Chatbot, Leo is now available for customers on Apple Business Chat, where its users can communicate directly with businesses using the Messages app on iPhone and iPad.   “As a brand focused on providing excellent customer experience, we are always looking […]

President Muhammadu Buhari will leave Abuja on Sunday for New York, the United States, to participate in the 74th Session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA74) which took off on Tuesday. Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina, in a statement issued yesterday, said the president’s participation at this […]

A Niger Delta militia group, the Reformed Niger Delta Avengers (RNDA), has reiterated its warning to renew hostilities in the region by attacking oil facilities, if a cabal in the presidency succeeds in removing Professor Charles Dokubo as Coordinator of the Presidential Amnesty Program (PAP).   The coalition of nine militia groups warned of its […]

The Nigerian government and the World Bank and Nigeria are in talks for as much as $2.5 billion in a new tranche of concessionary lending to Nigeria, Vice President for Africa Hafez Ghanem said. Last year Nigeria received $2.4 billion from the World Bank, Ghanem said in an interview in Abuja. “We’re talking about a […]

President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday in Abuja challenged security chiefs on the need to bring an end cases to crude oil theft in the country. The Inspector-General of Police, Muhammed Adamu, said the president gave the directive when he met behind closed doors with security chiefs at State House Abuja.   Adamu said the president […]

United Kingdom’s Home Secretary, Ms. Priti Patel is facing an integrity question over her support for the attempt by a British Virgin Islands-registered company, Process and Industrial Developments (P&ID) Limited, to squeeze $9.6 billion out of Nigeria for a gas-to-power project that was never built. A London magazine, Private Eye, questioned the motive of the […]

The House of Representatives has set up an interim panel to probe the Gas Supply and Processing Agreement (GSPA) Nigeria signed with a British Virgin Islands-registered company, Process and Industrial Developments (P&ID) Ltd, whose alleged breach triggered arbitration that resulted in the award of $6.6 billion, which with interest has now ballooned to $9.6 billion […]

The federal government has said that following the profiling of the second batch of Nigerians that willingly returned from South Africa Imo state topped the list with 157 out of 314 returnees.   A statement issued Thursday by Gabriel Odu of the Media Unit of Nigerians in Diaspora Commission, (NIDCOM), revealed that government had profiled […]

A bigwig of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Bayelsa State, Senator Nimi Amange, has dumped the party for the All Progressives Congress (APC). Amange, who represented Bayelsa East in the Senate, said he joined APC because Governor Seriake Dickson arrogated PDP to himself.   Amange said in a letter he sent to the Chairman […]

  Nigeria’s premier and leading financial services provider, First Bank of Nigeria Limited, has announced its educational solution – FirstEdu – specifically designed to enhance the educational facilities in schools. The FirstEdu product includes FirstEdu loan and FirstEdu portal.    FirstEdu loan is targeted at private Nursery & Primary and Secondary schools to assist the […]