With the approval granted by President Muhammadu Buhari that the national convention of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) will hold in February 2022, the coast is getting clearer as the next item on the agenda after the convention is the party’s primaries. Of paramount importance to stakeholders in the party is the presidential primary…
The President of the Nigerian Medical Association, Prof Innocent Uja, has likened the way medical practitioners leave Nigeria to practise abroad to sitting on a time bomb. He therefore called on the Federal Government to do something urgent about the situation. This is just as the Joint Health Sector Union advised the government to improve…
Festus Keyamo, minister of state for labour and employment, says the Lagos judicial panel on police brutality was “illegal and a waste of time”. Keyamo made the comment on Sunday during an interview on Channels Television. The minister said the Lagos state government, which set up the judicial panel, lacks the power to probe the…
Two different camps within the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC were at the weekend mounting pressure on President Muhammadu Buhari to take their position on the amended Electoral Act Amendment Bill. The pressure on Buhari according to multiple sources is majorly on the contentious provision in the amended Electoral Act that provides for direct primaries…
Trust Africa news, By Ayomide Otitoju Muhammad Nami, Executive Chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) Nigeria and President of the Commonwealth Association of Tax Administrators (CATA), on Friday held his first face-to-face meeting with the CATA Secretariat at the United Kingdom’s Treasury House. The meeting had in attendance executives of the CATA Secretariat,…
Qatar Airways will start flying to Enugu, Kano and Port Harcourt airports following bouts of bilateral trade agreements between Nigeria and the Qatari government. The two governments are also considering a partnership that will lead to the development of gas in both countries. The Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Gabriel Aduda, said collaboration…
The federal government says that Nigeria Air will commence operations with three wet-leased aircraft. Wet-lease is an arrangement covering the hire of an aircraft, including the provision of a flight crew and sometimes fuel. On Wednesday, the federal executive council approved April 2022 as the take-off date of the airline. Hadi Sirika, minister of aviation,…
Nigerian man living in Italy, Vivian Olusola Omololu Wiwoloku has accused his estranged wife, Veronica Bolaji Wiwoloku of planning to kill him and take over all his properties in Italy and Nigeria. Olusola also alleged that his wife falsely wrote to the Italian government to deport him to Nigeria. Veronica had in an interview with…
Governor of Anambra State, Willie Obiano, was placed on a watchlist by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission for allegedly mismanaging over N17 billion Paris Club refund and security vote, investigations by Saturday PUNCH have revealed. Our correspondent gathered that the governor who is presently out of the country had been under investigation for carrying…
