Less than 48 Hours after his Inauguration, the administration of President Bola Tinubu has announced that Adepoju Carol Wura-Ola, Deputy Comptroller General of Immigration, has been named interim Comptroller General of Immigration. The Civil Defense, Correctional, Fire and Immigration Services Board made the appointment. Akede Oyo had earlier reported that the president yesterday in his…
President Muhammadu Buhari, in a last-minute decision, approved the renaming of 15 airports after some prominent Nigerians. In a statement made available to the media, the spokesperson of the ministry of Aviation, Odutayo Oluseyi, said the airports include Akure International Airport named after Olumuyiwa Bernard Aliu; and Benin International Airport now known as Oba Akenzua…
The Enugu State Government has directed all former political appointees and office holders under the immediate past administration to comply with the earlier directive of the former Secretary to the State Government, Professor Simeon Otuanya, instructing them to hand over on or before May 26, 2023 ahead of the expiration of the second tenure of…
THE NIGERIAN IDEAL My Fellow Citizens, I stand before you honoured to assume the sacred mandate you have given me. My love for this nation is abiding. My confidence in its people, unwavering. And my faith in God Almighty, absolute. I know that His hand shall provide the needed moral strength and clarity of purpose…
By ADF On May 23, 2023 Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, left, and General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo pose for a photo during their meeting in Khartoum, Sudan in 2023. RUSSIAN FOREIGN MINISTRY PRESS SERVICE via APShare ADF STAFF. While Sudan’s rival generals fight to become the country’s chief military power, Russia and its proxy, the…
A Civil Society Organisation, CSO, Competent Governance for Accountability and Trust, has called on the Federal Government (FG) to put the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) in order or disband it if has outlived its usefulness to avoid what the group described as an embarrassment, which it said, the agency was causing Nigerians. It said…
By Rudolf Ogoo Okonkwo Several weeks ago, in the heat of the 2023 campaign, I commissioned two social scientists conversant with Nigeria to help me map out the DNA of an Obidient. They went to work. Periodically, they sent me their findings. After stating that deep down, the Obidient movement is not about Peter Obi…
May 19, 2023 Accuses Agency of contempt of court, conspiracy, deceit, wilful misrepresentation of facts. The PDP, Enugu State, has faulted the claim by the Director-General of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Brig Gen Yusha’u Dogara Ahmed, that he told the Governor-elect of Enugu State, Dr. Peter Mbah, that his discharge certificate was not…
“But, even on the merit, the Kano case is dead on arrival. You cannot shave anybody’s head in his absence. Alex Otti’s name was not mentioned in that judgement even though I think he is the target.” A former Attorney General of Abia State and Commissioner for Justice, Chief Umeh Kalu (SAN), has dismissed a…
14th May 2023 Senator Abdullahi Adamu is the National Chairman of APC and has every power to speak on behalf of APC. Sometime last year, at the heat of negotiations and trade offs for the emergence of APC presidential candidate, Adamu rose up and proclaimed Senator Ahmad Lawan as the consensus presidential candidate of APC….
