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Niger Army spokesman Colonel Amadou Adramane speaks during an appearance on national television, after President Mohamed Bazoum was held in the presidential palace. Photograph: ORTN/Reuters Niger military officers announced early Thursday that they had taken over power from President Mohamed Bazoum, who has been in detention since the early hours of Wednesday. The soldiers announced the coup in televised broadcast ...

Resident Doctors have declared indefinite strike in Nigeria. We reports that the Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors declared an indefinite strike on Tuesday night, July 25, 2023. This online news platform understands that the NARD President, Dr Emeka Orji, disclosed this, saying that the strike will begin today, Wednesday, July 26, 2023, at 12am. The NARD President said the decision ...

Operatives of the Department of State services (DSS) have rearrested Godwin Emefiele, the suspended governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). The operatives took custody of Emefiele after a physical fight with officials of the Nigerian Correctional Service. Emefiele was earlier granted bail by the Federal High Court in Ikoyi, Lagos. It was earlier reported that the DSS operatives ...

The Federal High Court in Lagos has granted Godwin Emefiele, suspended governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), bail in the sum of N20 million. In a ruling on Tuesday, Nicholas Oweibo, the presiding judge, said the charges against Emefiele are bailable. The bail was granted with one surety. Emefiele had pleaded not guilty to the two-count charge bordering ...

The management of the University of Lagos has confirmed an increment in the tuition fees of the undergraduate students of the institution. The management noted that the increment in fees had become imperative given the prevailing economic realities of the nation and its obligations to its students, staff, and service providers. This was contained in a statement made available to ...

The Federal Government through the Federal Ministry of Education has increased the school fees of new students into Federal Government Colleges otherwise known as Federal Unity Colleges to ₦100,000. This was contained in a directive from the Office of the Director of Senior Secondary Education Department of the Federal Ministry of Education, reference number ADF/120/DSSE/I, dated 25th May, 2023, and ...

The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL), on Tuesday, explained that the sudden surge in the price of premium motor spirit (PMS), also known as petrol, was the function of market forces. Petrol pump price, as observed in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja, jumped from N540 to N617 per litre.⁣ The Group Chief Executive Officer (GCEO) of the NNPCL, ...

President Bola Tinubu, on Tuesday, said his administration will review its earlier plan to distribute monthly cash grants of N8,000 to 12 million households for six months as part of efforts to assuage the hardship occasioned by fuel subsidy removal. This followed public criticism of the policy with organised labour saying it falls far from the level of intervention required ...

Another Abuja High Court has voided the arrest and detention of the suspended Nigeria’s Central Bank Governor, Mr. Godwin Emefiele, by the Department of State Services.   In a judgment upon an Originating Motion on Notice brought before the Court by Mr. Emefiele, against Incorporated Trustees of Forum for Accountability and Good Leadership, the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF), ...

President Bola Tinubu has declared a state of emergency on food security. Dele Alake, special adviser to the president on special duties, communications and strategy, made the disclosure to state house correspondents on Thursday after a meeting Tinubu had with stakeholders on agriculture and food production value-chain. He said the president is not unmindful of the rising cost of food ...