A local government chairman in Nigeria has called on President Bola Tinubu’s administration to officially designate armed herders as terrorists, warning that the continued attacks on rural communities are fuelling food insecurity and deepening national instability. Dr Eric Odo, who heads the Igbo-Etiti Local Government Area in Enugu State, issued the call during a stakeholders’…
The Nigerian Exchange Group (NGX), on Tuesday, said policy inconsistency, currency woes must be tackled to achieve the Federal Government’s proposed $1 trillion economy. Dr Umaru Kwairanga made the call while speaking with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos. He said these were challenges that must be surmounted if that economic milestone must…
An Ikeja Special Offences Court on Tuesday sentenced Mamman Ali and Christian Taylor to 14 years’ imprisonment each over a N2.2 billion oil subsidy fraud. Ali, son of a former National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Ahmadu Ali, and Taylor were charged by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). The EFCC charged…
The Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, has called on African youths to take the centre stage in promoting peaceful and credible elections across the continent. Yakubu made the call while delivering a lecture at the Civil Service University in Banjul, Republic of The Gambia, where he was a guest…
Chairman of Labour Party in Oyo State, Sadiq Atayese, has said that the leadership crisis at the national level of the party will not create factions among its members in the state. Atayese told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Tuesday in Ibadan that stakeholders in the state had agreed to work together to…
President Bola Tinubu has appointed Dr Ibrahim Oloriegbe as Chairman of the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA), effective March 11. The appointment of the former Kwara central senator would be for an initial term of four years, Mr Bayo Onanuga, the President’s spokesman, said in a statement on Sunday. Oloriegbe represented Kwara central senatorial district…
