THE Senate on Tuesday said the Federal Government was preparing to clear the outstanding N81bn owed as backlog of N-Power allowances in 2022 and 2023. This development followed a meeting convened by the Deputy President of the Senate, Barau Jibrin, who brokered dialogue between the Federal Government, representatives of the aggrieved N-Power beneficiaries, and their counsel, Abba Hikima. Speaking to journalists after the closed-door meeting, Barau disclosed that the discussions were fruitful and had led to an understanding that payment arrangements were already underway. “The beneficiaries came here to the Senate to seek my intervention. I called the minister, and…
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A KANO renowned politician and Adon Garin Kasar Hausa, Hon. Nasir Bala Aminu Ja’oji, has commended President Bola Ahmed Tinubu for attending burial of former President Muhammadu Buhari. Hon, Ja’oji in a special thank you message, said the presence of President Tinubu at the burial of the late president is a great honor to the family, the people of Daura, Katsina state and the north. “President Tinubu has done a great honor to the family of the late president and the entire northern Nigeria. We really appreciate the president.” “Not only attending his burial, the president also named the famous…
THE trial of Halima Buba, Managing Director of SunTrust Bank, and the bank’s Executive Director, Innocent Mbagwu, accused of laundering $12m, began on Thursday, before Justice Emeka Nwite of the Federal High Court in Abuja. An Economic and Financial Crimes Commission witness told the court how the two top bank executives allegedly facilitated a cash-for-transfer foreign exchange swap totalling $12m for a businesswoman, Aisha Achimugu, within just 10 days without channelling the funds through the formal banking system. The EFCC had, on June 13, 2025, arraigned Buba and Mbagwu on a six-count charge bordering on money laundering in contravention of…
TIKTOK has removed more than 3.6 million videos from the platform in Nigeria between January and March 2025, a 50 percent increase in removals over the previous quarter, for violating its Community Guidelines. It stated that this is a demonstration of its ongoing commitment to user safety as it revealed these figures in TikTok’s Q1 2025 Community Guidelines Enforcement Report, underscoring the platform’s priority of creating a safe, respectful and trustworthy digital environment. The report stated that with a proactive detection rate of 98.4 percent which is content removed before it was reported to TikTok and 92.1 percent of videos…
FORMER Kano State Governor and Ex-Senator representing Kano Central, Ibrahim Shekarau, has joined the growing list of national figures mourning the death of former President Muhammadu Buhari, describing him as a man who consistently placed the interests of the Nigerian people above all else. In a personally signed condolence statement issued on Tuesday, Shekarau said he received the news of the former president’s death with profound sorrow and total submission to the will of Allah. “It is with deep grief that I received the sad news of the passing away of His Excellency, former President Muhammadu Buhari, GCFR,” Shekarau began.…
A FORMER National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, has been inaugurated as the Chairman of the Board of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN). Gbenga Saka, the Special Adviser on Digital Media to the Minister of Aviation, Festus Keyamo, posted a video of the inauguration on his X handle. In January, Tinubu appointed him as the FAAN Board Chair. The ceremony, which was held in Abuja on Wednesday, came weeks after Ganduje resigned as the National Chairman of the APC. According to the APC, Ganduje resigned owing to personal reasons. “His resignation, which…
THE National Examinations Council on Wednesday announced the release of the 2025 Basic Education Certificate Examination results. A total of 179,201 candidates registered for the examination in 12 subjects, according to a statement by Azeez Sani, the Acting Director of Public Affairs of the examination body. The examination, which commenced on May 12, 2025, was concluded on May 23, 2025. “The results of the examination were released following the successful conclusion of the 2025 BECE Award Committee Meeting held at the Council’s Headquarters in Minna. “During the meeting, the chairperson of the Award Committee, Dr. (Mrs) Folake David, Director, Basic…
MORE branches of the Academic Staff Union of Universities have announced the suspension of services following the delay in payment of salaries. Recall that the national president of ASUU, Prof Chris Piwuna, in an earlier interview with this newspaper, said the union would invoke the no-pay-no-work policy on the Federal Government should there be any form of delay in payment of June 2025 salaries. So far, academics across various tertiary institutions have not been paid. The Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics, in a statement released on Sunday night, also threatened to embark on strike should the government fail to release…
NO fewer than 21 people lost their lives in a road crash that occurred along the Zaria–Kano highway on Sunday morning. According to the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), the accident, which took place around 8:23 a.m. at Kasuwar Dogo in the Dakatsalle area, involved a DAF trailer with registration number GWL 422 ZE and a Toyota Hummer bus with registration number KMC 171 YM. According to the the Kano State Sector Command of the FRSC, preliminary investigations revealed that the driver of the Hummer bus violated traffic rules by driving against the flow of traffic, resulting in a devastating…
THE Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, has threatened a nationwide mass action over the deepening cost-of-living crisis, escalating insecurity, and coordinated attacks on workers’ rights. It warned that Nigerian workers will no longer sit idly by while the nation’s economy and democracy crumble. Rising from its Central Working Committee (CWC) meeting held over the weekend at the 12th June Cultural Centre in Abeokuta, Ogun State, the NLC stated that the hardship faced by workers and the poor has reached intolerable levels, and immediate action must be taken to avert a national breakdown. More details shortly…
MINISTER of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, and the six area council chairmen will meet with the joint unions labour leaders of the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT), Nigeria Union of Local Government Employees (NULGE), and National Association of Nurses And Health Workers (NANAW) in Abuja, on Thursday, over lingering strike due to the non-payment of their members arrears and other entitlement. A member of the executive of union, who preferred anonymity, confirmed the meeting while speaking with our reporter through telephone on Tuesday. He said a letter from the minister’s office was conveyed to each of the…
KWARA State Governor, AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq, has sued a politician and businessman, Moshood Mustapha; and his brother, Bolakale Mustapha, over alleged disturbance of public peace, false declaration, and uploading of an online video that could incite the public against the governor. The two men were arraigned before Justice Muhammed Abdulgafar at the State High Court on Monday. They, however, pleaded not guilty to the five counts levelled against them in the video the governor said could caused public incitement against him and the government. They were granted bail in the sum of five million naira, while the case was…
THE Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has announced Saturday, 28th June 2025, as the date for the conduct of the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination mop-up examination. In a statement released by JAMB’s Public Communications Adviser, Dr Fabian Benjamin, on Sunday, “the Board disclosed that a total of 96,838 candidates would be participating in the mop-up exercise. “These include 5,096 spill-over candidates, those who experienced biometric verification failures during the main UTME, and 91,742 candidates who were absent during the main and resit examinations.” The Board encouraged the printing of notification slips from Monday, 23rd June 2025, to prepare for…
THE Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has rejected the notice submitted by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for its upcoming 100th National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting, citing a violation of procedural guidelines. In a letter dated 13 June 2025 and addressed to the party’s national chairman, the Commission noted that the notification did not comply with the provisions of the 2022 Regulations and Guidelines for Political Parties. INEC specifically referenced Part 2(12)3, which mandates that “the National Chairman and National Secretary of the Party shall jointly sign the notice of convention, congress, conference or meeting and submit same to the…
A NIGERIAN-AUSTRALIAN woman, Binta Abubakar, has been arrested by the Australian Federal Police for allegedly trafficking students from Papua New Guinea and forcing them into unpaid labour on farms across Queensland under the guise of educational scholarships. Abubakar, 56, was arrested on Wednesday at the Brisbane Airport upon arrival from Papua New Guinea, where she was primarily based. Her arrest follows a two-year investigation by the AFP’s Northern Command Human Trafficking Team, which launched a probe into her activities in July 2022 after receiving a tip-off from Queensland Police. According to the AFP, “A group of PNG nationals who had…
THE Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) has notified electricity Distribution Companies (DisCos) serving the six states in the North East that there will be blackout in the region while some places will witness significant drop in the supply of electricity. A letter sent to one of the DisCos and signed by TCN’s Regional Operations Manager, Bauchi Region, Engr J.O Joseph, said the reduction in supply is due to the erection of 330kV Turn-In and Turn-Out towers at the new Bauchi 330kV Substation transmission lines. The notice said the outage which will start on June 10 and end on June 14…
THE Federal Government has launched an investigation into a viral video showing alleged neglect of accident victims at the Emergency Unit of the Federal Medical Centre (FMC), Jabi, Abuja. The video, which circulated widely on social media, showed victims of a road accident reportedly left unattended by hospital staff members after being brought in by a good Samaritan. The good Samaritan, who recorded the footage, claimed he found the victims on the road and transported them to the hospital for urgent care. He alleged that hospital staff refused to provide immediate assistance, with one citing a lack of gloves. However,…
THE Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NiMet) has predicted thunderstorms and rains from Sunday to Tuesday across the country. NiMet’s weather outlook released on Saturday in Abuja envisaged morning thunderstorms on Sunday with moderate rains over parts of Taraba and Adamawa in the northern region. “In the afternoon/evening hours, there are prospects of thunderstorms with rains over parts of Taraba, Adamawa, Katsina, Kano, Zamfara, Kaduna, Jigawa, Borno, Gombe and Bauchi. “In the North-Central region, cloudy morning is expected over the region. “Later in the day, thunderstorms with rains are anticipated over parts of the Federal Capital Territory, Niger, Nasarawa, Kwara, Kogi, Benue…
THE Northern States Governors’ Forum (NSGF) has expressed deep grief over the death of renowned scholar, elder statesman, and diplomat, Professor Jibril Aminu, who died on Thursday at the age of 85. A statement issued by Ismaila Uba Misilli, Spokesman to Chairman of the forum and Governor of Gombe State, Muhammadu Inuwa Yahaya, described the late Professor as an iconic figure whose remarkable legacy in public service, diplomacy, and academia will be remembered for generations. “Professor Aminu was a man of uncommon intellect, integrity, and service. His contributions to Nigeria spanned decades of diligent and patriotic service. From his tenure…
THE Judiciary Staff Union of Nigeria (JUSUN) on Tuesday suspended its strike, which started on Monday. JUSUN announced the suspension in a communiqué issued after it met with the representatives of the Chief Judge of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Kudirat Kekere-Ekun. The communique signed by all shareholders present, said this was after long deliberations on issues that led to the declaration of the industrial action by the union. According to the communique, the following agreement was reached; that the JUSUN oblige the intervention of CJN, Minister of Labour and Employment, Muhammad Dingyadi, NLC and other Stakeholders one month for negotiations. ”Engage…