… money to be dedicated to female competition winning prize, says TCCP Nigeria’s Minister of Works and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Raji Fashola, SAN, has pledged to support the NBA-AGC Female Football Competition with the sum of N500,000. Tobenna Erojikwe, Chairman, NBA Technical Committee on Conference Planning (TCCP), announced this in a statement issued on Wednesday….
The National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) has imposed a fine of N5 million each on Multichoice Nigeria Limited, owners of DSTV, TelCom Satellite Limited (TSTV), and NTA-Startimes Limited for broadcasting a documentary by the BBC Africa Eye titled, “Bandits Warlords Of Zamfara”. Trust Television Network (Trust TV) was also fined N5 million for the broadcast of…
The Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP), and its Gombe State Governorship Candidate, Muhammad Barde, has filed a suit before the Federal High Court, by asking the court to disqualify Gombe State Governor, Mohammed Yahaya and his deputy, Jatau Daniel, from contesting in the 2023 Governorship Election, for allegedly submitting forged certificates. In the suit filed on…
The Federal Government has defended the expenditure of the sum of one point four billion naira for the purchase of vehicles for Niger Republic. This Follows the outrage generated by the measure exposed by a popular social media influencer, David Hundeyin. On Wednesday, the Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Mrs. Zainab Ahmed, explained…
Two of the four leading candidates in Nigeria’s 2023 presidential race have confirmed their availability to speak at the forthcoming Annual General Conference of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) in Lagos this month. Atiku Abubakar, presidential candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), and Peter Obi, presidential candidate of Labour Party (LP), will be speaking…
The eagerly awaited NBA-SPIDEL Annual Conference now holding in Abuja from 3rd to 5th August, 2022 is here. The conference commences today, August 3, 2022 with a Welcome Cocktail by 6 pm at the NBA National Secretariat, Mohammadu Buhari Way, Abuja. The event is sponsored by the President of the National Industrial Court of Nigeria…
The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) has constituted a new National Election Appeals Committee (NBA-NEAC) with a mandate to receive and resolve complaints and disputes arising from the elections into the National Offices of the NBA held on Saturday, 16 July, 2022. Olumide Akpata, President of the NBA, who announced this on Wednesday, August 3, 2022…
President of the Nigerian Bar Association, Mr Olumide Akpata, has disclosed efforts made so far by the association in securing the release of Mr. Inibehe Effiong, challenges and the next line of action in a series of tweets via his official Twitter account today. The tweets read: Last week, I provided an update on the…
President Muhammadu Buhari has canvassed for more collaborative efforts among nations with a view to addressing problems of terrorism, banditry and insurgency across the globe. Buhari stated this on Tuesday while receiving the letters of credence from the new Canadian High Commissioner to Nigeria, Ambassador James Kingston Christoff and Ambassador of Mexico to Nigeria, Juan…
The chairman of the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NiDCOM), Dr. Abike Dabiri-Erewa, has disclosed that the suspect in the murder of a Nigerian in Italy, Mr. Ogochukwu Alika, has been arrested by the Italian Police and is expected to be charged to court . A statement issued on Tuesday by Gabriel Odu of the Media,…