The Federal Government has spent about N300 billion on the National Social Investment Programmes in the last three years. The Special Adviser to President Muhammadu Buhari on National Social Welfare Programme, Maryam Uwais said this on Tuesday in Abuja during a joint oversight visit by Senate and House Committees on Poverty Alleviation. The delegation was…
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), says it is working with the National Assembly to criminalise mobile phones sim card infractions. The Director, Compliance, Monitoring and Enforcement of NCC, Mr Efosa Idehen, made this known on Tuesday in Enugu during a regional sensitisation workshop with stakeholders. The workshop was organised to address the dangers of dealing…
The Elections Petition Tribunal sitting in Anambra says it has received 42 petitions challenging the outcome of various elections in the state, all filed on or before March 30. The Secretary of the Tribunal, Mrs Falilat Orire, who released the list of petitions on Tuesday, disclosed that the figure comprised eight Senatorial petitions, nine House…
The candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Anambra South Senatorial district in the February 23 National Assembly elections, Dr Chris Uba has asked the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to grant his lawyer Charles Oguejiofor, the authority to prosecute Ifeanyi Ubah and others over the last election. Ubah contested the election on the platform of…
Heavy losses in the banking stocks undermined the performance of the stock market, leading to loss of 0.31 percent in the All Share Index, ASI, last week. The losses was heavier in Fidelity Bank Plc, which released its 2018 full year financial statement on Friday, showing 3.8 percent increase in gross earnings to N188.9 billion…
The governorship candidate of All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, in Zamfara State, Alhaji Sani Shinkafi, has asked the state’s Governorship and State House of Assembly Elections Petitions Tribunal sitting in Abuja to nullify the governorship election conducted in the state on March 9 and order for a fresh election without the participation of All Progressives…
A coalition of human rights lawyers and Ohanaeze chieftains have faulted the federal government over its suspension of trial of the former governor of Abia State and senator-elect for Abia North Senatorial District,Orji Uzor-Kalu, saying the action has further ridiculed President Muhammadu Buhari’s anti-corruption agenda. Similarly, the groups at a press conference yesterday in Abuja,…
The national leadership of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has commended the peaceful and successful conduct of the just concluded general elections in Enugu State, describing it as exceptional, one of the best in the country and a demonstration of “good electoral behaviour”. The electoral umpire added that the exercise in Enugu State, unlike…
As Nigerians get set to usher in the Ninth National Assembly, especially in the House of Representatives, in June this year, the quest for who emerges as Speaker has rightly dominated discourse in the polity. The All Progressives Congress, APC, with the support of the Presidency, is set to zone the various leadership positions in…