Former Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley has said she plans to vote for Donald Trump, her former opponent and boss, in the 2024 US presidential election. Ms Haley, who once served as Mr Trump’s United Nations ambassador, was the last of his major rivals to drop out of the party primary contest, in early March….
President Bola Tinubu has approved the appointment of Engr. Chukwuemeka Woke as the Director-General/Chief Executive Officer of the National Oil Spill Detection and Response Agency (NOSDRA). Ajuri Ngelale, Special Adviser to the President (Media & Publicity) disclosed this in a statement on Wednesday. Furthermore, Ngelale said that the President had approved the appointment of Dr….
Justice Ambrose Lewis-Allagoa of a Federal High Court in Lagos has ordered all warring factions of the Lagos Country Club to maintain status quo, pending the hearing of a suit filed by its Registered Trustees to halt the conduct of the Annual General Meeting (AGM). The judge made the order on Wednesday following an application…
● As state assembly dethrones Emir Bayero, others Sanusi Lamido Sanusi II has been reinstated as the Emir of Kano, according ti a report by LEADERSHIP newspaper. This decision followed the Kano State House of Assembly’s resolution to dethrone the current Emir and also dismantle the four new Emirates in the State established under a…
The Kano State House of Assembly has passed Kano Emirates Council law (repeal bill) 2024 after scaling 3rd reading. The law has abrogated establishment of 5 new Emirates in the state. All offices established under the repealed law have been set aside by the new bill. Also all district heads elevated or appointed under the…
Former Minister of Aviation Hadi Sirika, his brother, Ahmad Sirika, and a firm, Enginos Nigeria Limited, have been arraigned on a fresh 10-count charge of contract fraud. The embattled ex-minister was arraigned before Justice Suleman Belgore of the FCT High Court sitting in Garki, Abuja, on Thursday. In the new charge, the Economic and Financial…
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Parliament has elected the first female speaker in the annals of the regional legislative arm. The New Speaker of the Community Parliament, Memounatou Ibrahima, from Togo, was elected at the 2024 Second Extraordinary Session of the Sixth Legislature of the Community Parliament in Kano. She emerged speaker…
A former Vice-president, Atiku Abubakar, says he will keep contesting for the Nigerian presidency as long as he is hale and hearty. He said this during an interview on the Hausa service of the Voice of America in Abuja. Atiku, 77, who was the flagbearer of PDP in the 2023 election, will be 81 by…
InsertRetry The world number one downed Germany’s Yannick Hanfmann 6-3, 6-3 in the second round at the Parc des Eaux-Vives grounds. Djokovic becomes only the third man after Jimmy Connors and Roger Federer to reach the 1,100-win landmark. Djokovic took a wild card to play in Geneva in a bid to rescue an alarming dip…
