The United Bank for Africa, UBA, has debunked reports that it was involved in the recent botched coup in Turkey. Reacting to the reports on Tuesday in Lagos through a statement signed by its Head of Communications, Charles Aigbe, the Bank stressed that, “We remain focused and firmly committed to delivering on our strategy to…
A member of the House of Representatives, Nicholas Ossai, has stressed that there is no way an external body can launch an investigation into their activities because the House has its own mechanism of dealing with any issues. Ossai, who is House Committee Chairman on Ethics, faulted calls for the investigation of Speaker of the…
The postponement of the July 30 rerun election in Rivers State by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has been blamed on the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. According to the Rivers State chapter of All Progressives Congress, APC, it received the news of the rescheduling with mixed feelings, adding that their instinctive response is that…
President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday said his administration is working assiduously to ameliorate the challenges faced by the Nigerian economy within a short period by understudying the experiences of countries like Iran who thrived in adversity. Receiving a Special Envoy from the President of Islamic Republic of Iran at the State House, Mohammad Javad Zarif,…
Former president Olusegun Obasanjo is at the moment having discussions with President Muhammadu Buhari. The meeting, which is taking place at the Presidential Villa in Abuja, we learnt, is behind closed-doors. This is not the first time both Buhari and Obasanjo are having a similar meeting this year. It is believed that the President is…
Speaker of the Edo State House of Assembly, Mrs Elizabeth Ativie, has stepped down from office and the House now has a new Speaker. Ativie was said to have left the position so as to allow fairness in the sharing of political offices in the state. She has now been replaced by the Deputy Speaker,…
A factional Chairman of the Lagos State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Segun Adewale aka Aeroland has been tagged a troublemaker going by his antecedents in the past elections in the state, where he had contested and lost severally. He is said to have continued his alleged recklessness even after the election as…
Not less than 209 officers of the Nigerian Air Force, NAF, have graduated from the NAF Regiment Training Centre in Kaduna. At the ceremony held on Saturday, the Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Sadique Abubakar, charged the graduands to use skills learnt at the Centre to fight terrorism in the country. Abubakar informed the…
A non-governmental organization based in Osogbo, Osun State, the Justice Now Foundation, JNF, has called for the arrest and investigation of the operatives of a two-man civil society organisation code-named Civil Societies Coalition for the Emancipation of Osun State, CSCEOS. JNF, in a terse statement issued in Osogbo on Saturday by its chairman, Lanre Afolayanka,…
In the early hours of Sunday, July 24, 2016, soldiers of Operation Lafiya Dole ambushed Boko Haram terrorists crossing into Sambisa forest from Komala and Musafanari axis with logistics items. The ambush party killed 2 Boko Haram terrorists, while 2 soldiers sustained gunshot wounds. The wounded have since been airlifted and are receiving treatment at…