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The Federal High Court Abuja has fixed September 7, for the hearing of a legal suit seeking the disqualification of Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the presidential candidate of All Progressives Congress (APC), from contesting the 2023 elections for allegedly presenting the forged certificate. Justice Ahmed Mohammed fixed the hearing, just as it granted an ex-parte order for substituted service on Tinubu ...

The National Executive Council of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), has announced a four-week extension of the ongoing strike in public universities. The union disclosed this after a meeting on Monday. It partly read, “Following extensive deliberations and taking cognisance of Government’s past failures to abide by its own timelines in addressing issues raised in the 2020 FGN/ ASUU ...

Hundreds of villagers in Damari town under Kazage Ward in the eastern part of Birnin-Gwari Local Government Area of Kaduna State are fleeing their homes en masse after bandits dislodged members of the Ansaru terrorist group last week after a fierce fight. Daily Trust reports that a local union said at least 50 persons have been abducted by the bandits ...

Femi Gbajabiamila, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, on Wednesday apologized to Nigerians over his recent post, insisting that it was not his intention to cause disaffection amid the ongoing strike action by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) and other unions. Recalls Gbajabiamila recently posted a picture of himself attending a leadership course at Harvard University in ...

The Muhammadu Buhari-led federal government has concluded plans to impose another five per cent Excise Duty on all telecommunications services, including calls, SMS, and data services. Zainab Ahmed, minister of finance and national planning disclosed this at a stakeholders’ forum organised by the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC in Abuja on Thursday.   Ahmed said the decision was motivated by the ...

Nasir El-Rufai, Kaduna State governor has said President Muhammadu Buhari was not aware of bandits’ threat to capture him until he informed him.   Terrorists had on Sunday July 24, 2022, after flogging abducted Abuja-Kaduna train victims in the forest, vowed in a trending video to capture Buhari and El-rufai.   However, Governor El-rufai, while speaking on a Radio Programme, ...

Gunmen suspected to be bandits on Wednesday night, attacked Owo town in Ondo State, injuring unspecified number of people. The latest attack comes less than two months after terrorists killed about 40 worshippers at St Francis Catholic Church, Owo. Reports said many people were injured in the attack which took place Wednesday evening, at Folahami Junction, where a construction company ...

The Nigerian Police Force and other security agencies are deploying their operatives to man critical infrastructure and facilities as the nationwide protest organised by the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) in solidarity with the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) takes place today, Tuesday. This is the force warned those it called hoodlums to stay off the streets or face the ...

Beatrice, wife of Senator Ike Ekweremadu, the embattled former Nigerian deputy senate president, was on Monday granted bail by a London court, over allegations of human trafficking and organ harvesting.   Beatrice was arrested alongside her husband, Ike on June 23 by the London police, claiming they tried to traffic a minor to illegally harvest his organ. The claim that ...

Barely 24 hours after terrorists threatened to abduct President Muhammadu Buhari and Kaduna Governor Nasir el’Rufai in a viral video, troops of the Guards Brigade have been ambushed by armed bandits in Abuja.   The battalion is a unit under the Guards Brigade, which is responsible for protecting the president.   Three soldiers were wounded during the attack, which has ...