The management of Ocean Marine Solutions Limited (OMSL) has debunked any knowledge or involvement in the physical attack of the Managing Director of Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Ms. Hadiza Bala Usman, at the National Assembly. NPA boss Ms. Hadiza Usman petitioned the President of the Senate, Dr. Ahmad Lawan alleging that she was physically attacked Read more
Some individuals believed to be members of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) have reportedly attacked Rotimi Amaechi, minister of transportation, in Madrid, Spain. The minister claimed the attack took place on Friday while he was on a “national assignment” describing his attackers as “a few misguided Nigerians”. Amaechi, in a message shared on his Read more
The managing director of the Nigerian Ports Authority, Hadiza Bala Usman, has called for the investigation and prosecution of people who allegedly harassed her at the national assembly premises. In a petition to the inspector-general of police, senate president and the director-general of the Department of State Services, Usman explained that she was at the Read more
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Wednesday arraigned Aisha Alkali Wakil also known as Mama Boko Haram and Tahiru Saidu Daura over N66million fraud. The duo was arraigned on a three-count charge of conspiracy and cheating before Justice Aisha Kumaliya of the Borno State High Court, Maiduguri. Their prosecution followed a petition filed Read more
The Senate President Ahmed Lawan has said the Senate won’t pass the proposed Hate Speech Bill. This is coming after the public outcry that greeted the anti-free speech bill. Lawan made the disclosure in response to a detailed written protest letter against the hate speech bill and anti-social media bill before the senate by the Read more
Ifeanyi Ubah, a senator representing Anambra South has been filed with charges bothering alleged false claims and a debt of N135 billion to the Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON). The charges suit against the senator was filled by the Federal Government. His arraignment, which was scheduled for Wednesday at a federal high court in Read more
Oyedele Isaac, a young Nigerian gifted artist caught the attention of the US President Donald Trump after he made a classic ballpoint drawing of him. The American president commended Isaac for making a portrait of him purely out of blue and red ballpoint pens. The young Nigerian had taken to Twitter to share the “24 x Read more
The Ogun State Governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun Monday disagreed with calls for death sentence for those who abuse the use of social media as a tool for information dissemination. Rather the Governor said that the proposed social media law before the National Assembly should not be seen as targeting or gagging the critical media or Read more
The Kano State Emirate Council Bill 2019 has scaled through first reading at the floor of the Kano State House of Assembly on Tuesday. Presenting the executive bill at the plenary, the clerk of the house, Abdullahi Alfa read the new proposed bill for the recreation of four emirate councils. The bill scaled through the Read more
Former senate president, Bukola Saraki, says the order given for the forfeiture of his property in Ilorin, Kwara state capital, is an abuse of the court process and a violation of a subsisting order of the federal high court in Abuja. A federal high court in Lagos had ordered the forfeiture of two houses of Saraki in Ilorin Read more
