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President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered the immediate reinstatement of Professor Oluwatoyin Ogindipe as the Vice Chancellor of the University of Lagos.      He also ordered the immediate dissolution of the Governing Council of the tvarsity, headed by Dr Wale Babalakin.     The orders followed Buhari’s  acceptance of the report of the Special Visitation Panel […]

Nigerian billionaire Benedict Peters has made plans to develop a platinum mine in Zimbabwe with at least a billion dollars, according to Bloomberg News.   The Platinium mine is located in Selous, the south of Harare, Zimbabwe’s capital. It is also close to present platinum mines, and comprises a 3,000 hectare (7,413-acre) concession.   The […]

Contrary to reports by Bloomberg that Dangote Cement was granted sole approval to export cement through the land borders, information has emerged that other companies also got approval to export through the land borders.   Nigerian Customs Service has reportedly revealed that BUA Group and a gas company have also received presidential approval to move […]

  …accuses account owners of terrorism   The Central Bank of Nigeria was able to secure authority to freeze the accounts of #EndSARS campaigners by accusing them of engaging in acts of terrorism.   With that, the Federal Government was able to freeze the accounts of 20 #EndSARS campaigners after it told a Federal High […]

  The Lagos State Governor, Bababjide Sanwo-Olu, on Tuesday proposed a budget estimate of N1,155,022,413,005.82 for 2021, christened ‘budget of rekindled hope’.   The governor made the presentation at the Lagos State House of Assembly Chambers, Alausa Ikeja.   Sanwo-Olu said his administration negotiated and was able to save about N12 billion from the restructuring […]

An activist, Kenechukwu Okeke, who lost property during the recent protests in the country, has filed a criminal complaint before a Chief Magistrate’s court in Abuja against 50 persons for the part they allegedly played in the #EndSARS protests.    Okeke alleged that during the riot, his properties were destroyed and the defendants who promoted […]

A younger brother to the Deputy Governor of Edo state has been kidnapped by gunmen. The younger brother, identified as Frederick Shaibu, was kidnapped as he went to drop his children in their school near Benin City, the capital of the state. The kidnap took place on Monday, according to a family source. He was […]

Babajide Sanwo-Olu, governor of Lagos State, in a brave move on Tuesday announced his intention to repeal the Public Office Holder (Payment of Pension Law 2007), which provides for payment of pension and other entitlements to former Governors and their Deputies.   He made this known while presenting the 2021 budget to the Lagos State […]

The founder of Stanbic IBTC Bank Plc, Mr. Atedo Peterside, has faulted the Federal Government’s decision to allow only Dangote Industries Limited to move goods across the country’s land borders, which have been closed for over a year.   Nigeria shut its land borders with its West African neighbours in August 2019, in the government’s […]

Nigeria may face scarcity of petrol as oil industry workers’ union calls for a strike.   The Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria, which groups the white-collar workers in the oil and gas industry, on Monday, ordered its members to suspend operations.   The order was issued in a letter, dated, and […]

Six Nigerians have been convicted by an Abu Dhabi Federal Court of Appeal in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) for allegedly funding Boko Haram.   They were convicted of wiring $782,000.00 to the fundamentalists, who have been fighting to overthrow the government and install an Islamist form of government, Daily Post reported Monday.    The […]

President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday ordered the disposal of all assets forfeited to the Federal government within the next six months.   This was announced by the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr. Abubakar Malami, SAN, on at the  inauguration of a 22-member Inter-Ministerial Committee, charged with the responsibility of disposing of […]