The Senate, on Tuesday, suspended Senator Abdul Ningi for three months over budget padding allegations.His suspension followed a motion moved at plenary on Tuesday by Jimoh Ibrahim.Jimoh Ibrahim had moved the motion for Ningi’s suspension for 12 months over allegations of criminal misinformation and breach of peace in the National
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Gunmen attacked the University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital (UNTH), Ituku Ozalla, in Enugu State, Nigeria’s southeast, on Tuesday.Reports gathered indicate that the attackers, suspected to be kidnappers, abducted a female director and a security officer in the facility.Some staff members of the hospital who spoke to journalists said the director
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by Uchechukwu Okoroafor,AbujaNorthern senators, under the aegis of the Northern Senators Forum (NSF), recently confronted the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, over the alleged padding of the 2024 budget with about N3 trillion worth of projects.Representatives of the 58-member Forum, led by its chairman, Abdul Ningi (PDP, Bauchi), confronted Akpabio at
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Following the recent terrorist attacks in Kaduna and Sokoto, a renowned Kaduna-based Islamic cleric, Sheikh Ahmad Abubakar Gumi, has expressed readiness to lead a holistic dialogue between the federal government and terrorists for the release of all kidnapped Nigerians.Gumi, in an interview with Leadership Newspaper last night in Kaduna, described
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President Bola Tinubu’s administration has directed the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) to withdraw licenses of non-performing electricity distribution companies (DISCOs).This is as power generation dropped year-on-year (YoY) by 21 percent to 3,475 MW in March 2024, from 4,404 MW in the corresponding period of 2023, due to many problems,
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Former Vice President of Nigeria, Atiku Abubakar, has rubbished reports claiming he is set to dump the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) ahead of the 2027 elections.UNITY TIMES earlier reported that Atiku and some other politicians were planning to form a new party to challenge the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC)
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Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, ex-Zamfara State governor, Abdullaziz Yari, and Senator Abdul Ningi have initiated the move to form a mega party ahead of the 2027 general election.Recall that Atiku, who was the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2023 elections, lost to President Bola
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Nigerian Army troops say they have uncovered and neutralized a major firearms and drone manufacturing factory allegedly operated by the Eastern Security Network (ESN).According to Army spokesman, Major General Onyema Nwachukwu, the factory was located at Onicha Ulona in Aniocha South Local Government Area of Delta State.He said the troops
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Senate President Godswill Akpabio on Monday inaugurated an ad hoc committee to investigate the N30 trillion Ways and Means Advances released by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to fund projects under former President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration.The fund, which passed through the National Assembly, was without details, despite the commitment
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