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The Federal Government, on Thursday, said no fewer than 10 states and the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, had either experienced various degrees of flooding or recorded casualties as rains intensified. The Minister of Water Resources and Sanitation, Prof Joseph Utsev, who dropped the red alert during a press briefing in Abuja, warned that 21 more […]
International credit rating agency, Fitch Ratings, has projected that the Nigerian currency, the naira, will end the year at 1,450 to the United States of American dollar. This was disclosed by the Director, Sovereigns, at Fitch Ratings, Gaimin Nonyane, during a post-sovereign rating webinar on Tuesday focused on Nigeria and Egypt. Earlier in May, Fitch […]
No fewer than five shops were on Tuesday gutted by fire at the timber market in Kenyatta Street, Uwani, Enugu, the News Agency of Nigeria reports. NAN reports that prompt response by the state Fire Service quenched the fire from spreading to other parts of the plywood market. A firefighter, who preferred anonymity, said the […]
The ruling All Progressives Congress said the electronic registration of its members nationwide will start on Wednesday and the exercise will be inaugurated by its National Chairman, Dr Abdullahi Ganduje. This was disclosed in a statement issued in Abuja on Tuesday by the party’s National Publicity Secretary, Felix Morka. Morka noted that Ganduje will be […]
The Association of Legislative Drafting and Advocacy Practitioners, a civil society organisation composed of legal practitioners, has declared its intention to file a lawsuit at the Federal High Court to contest the recently enacted National Anthem Act, 2024. The legislation, which was signed into law on Wednesday, reinstated the former national anthem, ‘Nigeria we hail […]
Nigeria, we hail thee, Our own dear native land, Though tribe and tongue may differ, In brotherhood, we stand, Nigerians all, and proud to serve Our sovereign Motherland. Our flag shall be a symbol That truth and justice reign, In peace or battle honour’d, And this we count as gain, To hand on to […]
President Bola Tinubu today, Wednesday signed the National Anthem Bill 2024 into law. The bill seeked to reinstate the old anthem, “Nigeria, We Hail Thee.” This was disclosed by the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, during the joint plenary that Tinubu attended, who later confirmed ‘Nigeria, we hail thee’ as the “latest national anthem”. […]
President Bola Tinubu has attributed his victory in the 2023 election to his stint in parliament in the botched Third Republic. Tinubu was elected into the Senate to represent Lagos Central District on the platform of the Social Democratic Party. He was a Senator from December 5, 1992, till November 17, 1993, when the Third […]
It is official as Muhammadu Sanusi II, deposed as the Emir of Kano four years ago, has been reinstated to the throne by Kano State Governor, Abba Yusuf. Yusuf announced the decision on Thursday after signing the Kano State Emirate Council (Repeal) Bill 2024 into law. “With the full support of the kingmakers, I […]
Kanu Assembly has desolved the four new Emirates created by former governor of the state, Abdullahi Umar Ganduje. Sanusi Lamido Sanusi II may be reinstated as the Emir of Kano. 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 […]
