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  …hires Falana to sue govt. if it fails to take action in 14 days   Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has sent an open letter to President Muhammadu Buhari requesting him to “urgently rescind your assent to the Companies and Allied Matters Act, 2020, [CAMA 2020].   The NGO asked the President to […]

Nigeria’s economy declined in the second quarter of this year, with the gross domestic product falling by 6.10 percent.   In a report covering the second quarter released Monday, the National Bureau of Statistics, attributed the decline mainly to considerably lower levels of both domestic and international economic activity, resulting from nationwide shutdown efforts aimed […]

Prof. Akin Abayomi, Commissioner for Health in Lagos State, has tested positive for coronavirus.   Commissioner for Information and Strategy in the state, Gbenga Omotoso, disclosed this in a press statement on Monday.   The statement was titled, ‘Press release on the positive COVID-19 status of Lagos Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi’.   The […]

The Nigerian Bar Association has finally listened to public opinion and remove Kaduna State governor, Nasir El-Rufai as one of the speakers at its annual General conference scheduled to hold next week.   “The National Executive Committee of the Nigerian Bar Association at its ongoing meeting resolves that the invitation to the Kaduna State Governor, […]

West African leaders arrived in Mali on Saturday to try to push for a speedy return to civilian rule after a military coup in the troubled nation.   The delegation, headed by former Nigerian president Goodluck Jonathan, planning to meet members of the new junta as well as ousted president Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, AFP reported. […]

Eventually, President Muhammadu Buhari has waded into the crisis rocking the University of Lagos, and ordered the leading combatants, the pro-chancellor, Wale Babalakin, and the vice-chancellor, Prof Oluwatoyim Ogundipe, to step aside, while a special panel has been constituted to investigate the crisis rocking the university.   The special visitation panel set up will submit […]

State governor, Aminu Tambuwal on Saturday held a closed-door meeting with former  President Olusegun Obasanjo in Abeokuta.   The duo met at the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library Pent House for about one hour from 2.30 pm.   The subject matter of the parley was disclosed, but Obasanjo’s Special Assistant on Media, Kehinde Akinyemi, in a […]

  The Nigerian government has said it will apply the principle of reciprocity as the resumption of international flights in the country approaches.   Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika, said this on Thursday in Abuja at the daily briefing of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19.   The government explained that this means that only […]

  President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday appointed former Super Eagles striker, Daniel Amokachi, as a Special Assistant on Sports.   The Ministry of Youth and Sports Development announced this in a statement.   The statement. titled, ‘PMB appoints Amokachi Special Assistant, Sports’, was signed by John Akanji, Special Adviser on media to the Minister of […]

A group of lawyers under the aegis of the Open Bar Initiative have petitioned the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) to withdraw its invitation to Kaduna State Governor, Malam Nasir El-Rufai, to speak at the association’s annual general conference, saying it would amount to rewarding bad behavior.   “As Governor, Mallam el-Rufai has shown no regard […]

Fayemi Kayode, the EKITI State governor, is not aware of the 2023 presidential campaign posters purporting to be his, and currently circulating on the social media, according to his Chief Press Secretary, Yinka Oyebode.   “The attention of Governor Kayode Fayemi has been drawn to news reports of a campaign poster being purportedly circulated on […]

Nigeria’s Senate Joint Committee on Finance and National Planning on Wednesday threatened to sanction heads of some revenue-generating agencies of the Federal Government if they fail to appear before it on Thursday (today).   Senator Solomon Adeola, chairman of the Senate Committee on Finance, gave the warning at the opening session of a five-day public […]