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The commencement of the automated passport application process is scheduled to begin on Monday, January 8, 2024, as announced by the Minister of Interior, Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo. The Minister revealed this update while conducting an inspection of the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) facilities in Abuja, accompanied by the Comptroller General of the Service, Wura-Ola Adepoju, on Monday. In a statement made …

Minister of Interior, Dr Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo has frowned at the many man-made encumbrances regarding change of passport data by Nigerians, especially married women, saying it is a “stupid practice” to subject such women to the rigours of travelling to the Nigeria Immigration Service NIS headquarters in Abuja just to effect a data change. Speaking at a recent dinner with members …

The ruling “will not discourage us,” Levin said without indicating whether the government would try to revive his plan in the short term. “As the campaigns are continuing on different fronts, we will continue to act with restraint and responsibility,” he said. In Monday’s decision, the court narrowly voted to overturn a law passed in July that prevents judges from striking down …

President Bola Tinubu has directed all MDA to provide a monthly budget performance report to the ministry of budget and economic planning, which in turn shall ensure the veracity of such.  The directive came after Tinubu signed the 2024 Appropriation Bill into law at the State House on Monday, shortly after returning to Abuja from Lagos. Speaking at the signing …

The Social Democratic Party (SDP) has called on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to be bold in implementing provisions of the Electoral Laws and the Constitution in the conduct of future elections. The SDP National Chairman, Malam Shehu Gabam, said this when he spoke with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja on Tuesday. Gabam said that Nigerians …

• Experts seek deliberate actions to tackle FX crisis, insecurity, corporate failure• Workers demand timely closure of new minimum wage negotiation• Safety, infrastructure development, vessel building top maritime agenda• Telcos to reap from rising content consumption• Controversial USSD debt carried into 2024 Against the backdrop of tougher projections for the New Year, economists and allied professionals have said Nigerians could be …

The leadership of the Labour Party has labelled the reported ‘mechanical completion’ and the ‘flare start-off’ of the country’s biggest crude refinery in Port Harcourt, Rivers State capital, as a sham. This was even as the ruling All Progressives Congress cautioned the Labour Party against misleading the public, stressing that it is not every issue that should be politicised. The …

President Bola Tinubu, on Monday, signed the 2024 Appropriation Bill into law in keeping with his avowed commitment to maintaining a timeous, predictable, and efficient budget cycle. President Tinubu assented to the bill in his office at the Presidential Villa State House, on Monday, shortly after returning to Abuja from Lagos. Speaking at the signing of the bill, the President …

Nigeria’s President, Bola Tinubu has assured Nigerians that his administration will remove all the obstacles confronting the nation’s economy and businesses, saying he is not insensitive to the plight of the citizens. Tinubu stated this in his New Year national broadcast on Monday, according to the Vanguard. “I am well aware that for some time now the conversations and debates …

Many politically conscious Nigerians knew that the criminally incompetent rulers in Nigeria, were indirectly indicted when Victor Osimhen was crowned the African Footballer for the year 2023. Why? The answer is not far-fetched. At that grand ceremony at the Palais Des Congress in Marrakech, Morrocco, which was organized by the Confederation of African Football (CAF) on December 11, 2023, Victor …