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  The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has appealed the judgment which sacked Ademola Adeleke as governor of Osun state. Reports had reported how the Osun governorship election petition tribunal ruled in favour of Gboyega Oyetola, former governor of the ...

Jide Omokore, chairman of Atlantic Energy Drilling Concepts Nigeria Limited and a supporter of former petroleum minister Mrs. Diezani Allison-Madueke, has been cleared of fraud by the Federal High Court in Abuja. However, the court found Victor Briggs and Abiye ...

  Ekiti Government has paid N130 million in gratuities to retirees of local government workers and teachers in the state. Ekiti Governor, Mr Biodun Oyebanji, presented the cheques to  69 beneficiaries on Tuesday at the Lady Jibowu Hall, Government House, ...

  Shamsudeen Bala, the son of Bauchi Governor Bala Mohammed, was cleared of the N1.1 billion fraud charge by the Federal High Court in Abuja on Tuesday. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) had filed a 20-count charge against ...

Mele Kyari, the Group Chief Executive Officer, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation Limited, has claimed the logistics challenge has been responsible for the protracted fuel scarcity across the country. Kyari gave the explanation during an interview with Channels Television on Tuesday ...

  Mr Ayuba Wabba, the outgoing President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), has stated that the organised labour is seeking an end to the country’s fuel importation policy because it will result in lower fuel prices. At the 13th ...

  The Supreme Court has barred the Nigerian government from continuing with the full implementation of the Naira swap policy. Kaduna, Kogi and Zamfara states had, in a motion ex-parte filed on February 3, prayed the apex court to halt ...

  Former President of Nigeria, Olusegun Obasanjo, has said that nothing would stop this year’s elections from holding. Obasanjo said this while hosting the members of the Board of Trustees of the African Democratic Congress at his penthouse residence located ...

  The Governor of Lagos state, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, today announced relief packages to cushion the effect of CBN’s currency swap and fuel shortage. In a press conference in Marina on Wednesday, the governor announced 50 percent reduction on all Lagos ...

  Sen. Rochas Okorocha, the former governor of Imo, was absolved of the N2.9 billion fraud charge brought against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Monday by a Federal High Court in Abuja (EFCC). The EFCC’s lawsuit ...

  Franklin Felix, Isaac Moses, and Amos Emmanuel, three security guards, were charged by the police on Monday with negligence before a Dei-Dei Grade I Area Court in Abuja. The defendants, Felix, 32; Moses, 25; and Emmanuel, 32, all natives ...

  Silifatu Lawal, a saleswoman, filed a petition to dissolve her 20-year marriage to Oladimeji Lawal on Monday in a Mapo Grade A Customary Court in Ibadan due to frequent physical abuse and lack of affection. Silifatu, a resident of ...

  An Abuja High Court has ordered the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to continue with the full implementation of the naira redesign policy. This ruling was delivered on Monday in a suit marked FCT/HC/CV/2234/2023. The court restrained the CBN ...

  The All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship candidate in Abia, Chief Ikechi Emenike, unveiled his platform on Sunday with the goal of “Rescue and Develop Abia State”. He delivered the document to journalists, party leaders, and supporters at his Umukabia, ...

  The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has alleged there is a plan to assassinate the Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (IPOB). IPOB made this claim in a statement signed by its spokesman, Emma Powerful. ...

  Prof. Lilian Salami, vice chancellor of the University of Benin, has urged students to always embrace dialogue as a means of resolving conflicts rather than resorting to protests at the slightest provocation. After an altercation on Thursday between some students ...

  Friday, a middle-aged man (name withheld) was killed by a “Hit and Run” vehicle on the Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway close to the Owode-Ijako bus stop. The incident was confirmed to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Friday in Ota, ...

  President Muhammadu Buhari has pleaded with the populace to give him seven days to address the cash shortage that has spread throughout the nation as a result of the Central Bank of Nigeria’s decision to replace high-value Naira notes ...

  The Nigeria Security And Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Sokoto State Command, appointed Mr. Bello Argungu as commandant on Friday. The command’s spokesperson, Hamza Illela, made a statement about this in Sokoto. Illela claimed that Argungu’s return to duty came ...

  President Muhammadu Buhari has vowed to sort out the crisis caused by the scarcity of new naira notes in the next seven days. Buhari, on Friday, said he has seen reports about cash shortages and the effect on local ...

  Residents of Ibadan, the capital of Oyo state have put up roadblocks and set up bonfires to air their displeasure over the lingering fuel and currency scarcity in the country. Kemi Filani News gathered that the protesters started a ...

  The Central Bank of Nigeria’s (CBN) naira redesign, according to the All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Campaign Council (PCC), is untimely. In a statement released on Friday in Abuja, Mr. Bayo Onanuga, Director, Media and Publicity APC PCC, stated ...

  The Ministry of Finance Incorporated (MOFI) has been given a mandate by President Muhammadu Buhari to increase its Assets Under Management from its current level of N18 trillion to at least N100 trillion over the course of the next ...

  Insp. Sunday Akagu, the sixth witness for the prosecution, testified before the Lagos High Court in the trial of Darambi Vandi, the alleged murder suspect of a Lagos-based lawyer who was fatally shot on Christmas Day. In his testimony ...

  The Nigeria Customs Service, Seme Area Command, seized $6 million in counterfeit US dollars as well as other prohibited items. During a press conference on Thursday in Seme, Lagos, the command’s Area Controller, Comptroller Dera Nnadi, informed the media ...