The Supreme Council for Shari’ah in Nigeria has asked the Federal Government, as well as well-meaning Nigerians to prevail on the Independent National Electoral Commission to hold both the presidential and governorship elections on the same day. The council noted that the call became necessary to avoid violence at staggered polls. The presidential and National…

The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) has said lawyers belonging to its branch in Akwa Ibom State, South-south Nigeria, will not be part of its monitoring team during the 2023 general elections. The President of the NBA, Yakubu Maikyau, said in Abuja on Tuesday that the decision was a sanction against the branch for its open…

Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, has promised the people of Cross River that, if elected President, he would change the state to wonderland of tourism. He made the promise, yesterday, during the APC presidential campaign rally at the U.J. Essuene Stadium in Calabar. He also promised to create jobs for the…

A former governor of Enugu State, Chimaroke Nnamani, on Sunday said he decided to back the All Progressives Congress presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, because the Peoples Democratic Party violated its constitution by denying the south the right to produce the next President. The former governor stated that the PDP’s constitution specified that key political…

Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), has urged universities across the country and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to do the “right thing” by granting students a one-week break to participate fully in the forthcoming general elections. Speaking during a meeting with observers from the European Union, Election Observation Mission…

A former Governor of Ekiti State, Dr Kayode Fayemi, has filed a N500m suit against a former Commissioner for Information in the state, Mr Kayode Otitoju, and Arise Television for alleged defamation and malicious airing of offending broadcast against him. In the suit, HAD/10/2023, filed before an Ekiti State High Court on January 25, 2023,…

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate in Lagos, Abdulazeez ‘Jandor’ Adediran, on Tuesday, said that Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu failed to attend The Platform Nigeria debate held on Sunday because “he has nothing to show for his four years in office”. Mr Adediran said Mr Sanwoolu’s absence from the debate was planned to help him…

The Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Dr Zainab Ahmed, has said that the Federal Government will deploy Point-of-Sales agents for cash transfers during the National Social Safety Net Programme Scale Up. She said this while hosting the Executive Director, Angola, Nigeria, South Africa Constituency of the World Bank Group, Ms Ayanda Dlodlo, in…

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor, Mr Godwin Emefiele, has urged lawmakers and Nigerians to show understanding, adding that the apex bank was out to combat the incidence of insecurity in the country. Emefele made the call in Abuja on Tuesday before the House of Representatives fact-finding ad hoc committee on the scarcity and…

In this piece, TUNDE AJAJA examines the rate at which fire and other insurable risks force many micro, small and medium-sized enterprises’ owners out of business, plunging many, including their dependants, into poverty while also impacting negatively on the economy On the veranda of a nearby building overlooking what remained of her shop, completely razed…