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After four years of consistent construction work by Julius Berger, the multi million naira 2nd Niger Bridge connecting the western and eastern parts of the country was finally opened to traffic on Thursday, with the people residing around Onitsha and Ogbaru areas of Anambra State expressing joy at the development. The Federal Government ordered the opening of the bridge for …

Kindly share this story: Osun State Governor, Ademola Adeleke, has disclosed that his predecessor, Gboyega Oyetola, took N18 billion loan after he lost the July 16th, 2022 Osun governorship election. This is as he also revealed that the state is indebted to the tune of N407.32 billion as of November 30th, 2022. Adeleke disclosed this on Thursday during a meeting …

Embattled former Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, on Thursday told Justice Inyang Ekwo of a Federal High Court in Abuja that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission was responsible for his travails at the London Court where he had been in detention over alleged organ harvest. The Senator who has been in custody in London over an alleged organ harvest …

An Upper Shari’a Court sitting in Kano on Thursday has sentenced a renowned Islamic cleric, Abduljabbar Nasiru Kabara, to death by hanging for blasphemy. The Presiding judge, Ibrahim Sarki Yola, delivered the sentence in a court session which lasted over three hours amidst tight security. The defendant was arraigned on July 16, 2021 by Kano State Government on four counts …

… fixes hearing of substantive matter Jan. 10 … orders applicant to put CBN, other parties on notice An Abuja High Court sitting in Maitama has refused to grant a motion seeking to stop the new cash withdrawal policy of the Central Bank of Nigeria. The application was brought before the Court by 10-named applicants for themselves and on behalf …

• Cautions supporters against ‘baseless conspiracy theories’• Insists polls will be one genuine voter-one vote, no PVC-no voting• Rigging will be impossible in 2023 general elections, says AIG• Committee on election security assures of credible polls in Kano Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), yesterday, declared affirmatively that disappointment awaits politicians “still going about purchasing Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs)” for use …

Politicians are struggling to re-strategise after Bassey Albert, a frontline candidate for next year’s governorship election, was sentenced to 42 years in prison for receiving bribes. Supporters of Bassey Albert, the Akwa Ibom State senator and governorship candidate of the Young Progressive Party jailed two weeks ago for corruption by the Federal High Court in Uyo, do not believe he was justly …

The Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, NEITI, yesterday backed the decision of the Federal Government to set up Special Investigative Panel on Oil Theft and Losses, claiming that the country has lost 619.7 million barrels of crude oil valued at $46.16 billion or N16.25 trillion in twelve years from (2009 to 2020). NEITI in a statement by the Head, Communications …

Nigeria’s quest to fill the poor road infrastructure gap got a boost with the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL), earmarking N1.6 trillion for the rehabilitation under the Federal Government’s tax  credit scheme. Africa’s largest economy boasts of the largest road network in Africa, with only about 60,000km out of an estimated 195,000km road network paved. Some of the roads are …

The Presidential candidates of both the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and the opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Atiku Abubakar were absent as the Labour Party and the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP) candidates, Peter Obi and Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso joined others contesting for the position in 2023 to sign an agreement with Civil Society Organisations …