Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged World Bank President Ajay Banga to suspend the giving of loans and other facilities to Nigeria’s 36 state governors.Besides asking the global lender to suspend further loans to unsatisfactory states, the group, in a letter signed by deputy director Kolawole Oluwadare at
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Following the unexplained diversion of an Abuja-bound United Nigeria Airlines (UNA) aircraft to Asaba International Airport on Sunday, the Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) has suspended all the wet-leased aircraft under the airline.This was announced on Monday by the civil aviation regulatory authority in a letter addressed to the Chief
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The Chief of Staff to the President, Honourable Femi Gbajabiamila, has said that efforts are underway to ensure the take-off of the Federal Government’s student loan scheme in January 2024 to ensure that Nigerian students can access the loans “to fund their educational aspirations.”He spoke in Lagos on Friday while
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Uchechukwu Okoroafor, AbujaIn a region where political transitions are often marred by disputes, legal battles, and a reluctance to concede defeat, Liberia's President George Weah has set a commendable precedent by gracefully conceding the election to opposition leader Joseph Boakai.This act of statesmanship does not only marks the end of
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President Bola Tinubu has assented to the Defence Industries Corporation of Nigeria (DICON) Bill (2023).The DICON Act (2023) empowers the corporation to operate, maintain, and control subsidiaries and ordnance factories to manufacture, store, and dispose of ordnance and ancillary stores and materials.It allows DICON to establish the Defence Industry Technology,
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The New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) yesterday asked the National Judicial Council (NJC) to investigate the verdict.The party insisted that the Certified True Copy (CTC) of the judgment delivered on its appeal showed their gubernatorial candidate won the election.Speaking at a press conference in Abuja, the national chairman of the
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The Senate, on Thursday, sought the inclusion of Nigeria in the $147bn global bitumen market with the passage for a second reading, a bill seeking the establishment of a Bitumen Development Commission.Senator Jimoh Ibrahim (APC, Ondo South), who sponsored the bill, said Nigeria has 38bn bitumen reserves.According to Ibrahim, Ondo
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The Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja yesterday affirmed the judgement of the Gombe State governorship election tribunal, which upheld the victory of Governor Muhammad Inuwa Yahaya in the last governorship election held in the state.The tribunal had dismissed the petition filed by the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) challenging the
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Google has empowered 15 Small and Medium Businesses, SMBs, under its Hustle Academy with the sum of N75 million.The country director, Google West Africa, Olumide Balogun, said this at the Google Hustle Academy graduation on Thursday in Abuja.Mr Balogun said the event was also to celebrate not only 5,300 graduands
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The embattled Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Hudu Yunusa Ari, has fled Nigeria to the Niger Republic, his counsel informed the Adamawa State High Court on Wednesday.The controversial REC had declared Aishatu Binani, the candidate of All Progressives Congress, as governor-elect of Adamawa State,
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