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Former presidential aide, Dr. Doyin Okupe is reportedly dead.The prominent Nigerian politician passed away at the age of 72.It was gathered that Dr. Okupe died on Friday morning after battling a protracted illness suspected to be cancer.Okupe was in 2022 appointed as the Director-General of the Labour Party Presidential Campaign for the 2023 election.He was, however, for...

The Rivers State House of Assembly has given Governor Siminalayi Fubara 48 hours to submit a new list of commissioner nominees.In a letter dated March 5, the assembly, led by Speaker Martin Amaewhule, accused Fubara of unlawfully swearing in 19 commissioners without legislative screening and confirmation, claiming this violates the Constitution.The lawmakers also stated that the governor made several other...

The Nigeria Customs Service NCS has said that smugglers now establish small, distributed storage facilities within border communities, serving as transit points for onward movement across the border.The Comptroller General of Customs, CGC Adewale Adeniyi, disclosed this on Monday while addressing journalists at the Customs Training College in Ikeja.He explained that operational data reveals several emergen...

The Rivers State House of Assembly, at plenary in Port Harcourt, ordered Governor Sim Fubara to present the 2025 budget to the lawmakers within 48 hours.Former Nigerian Separatist warlord and ex-leader of the Niger Delta People Volunteer Force, Alhaji Mujahid Asari Dokubo, and the Ijaw Youth Council (IYC) have urged President Bola Tinubu to caution the Minister of Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, against pushin...

The Lagos State Government has suspended enforcement of its e-call-up system for truck movement on the Lekki-Epe corridor.Olawale Musa, Permanent Secretary, Lagos State Ministry of Transportation, made this known in a statement.Journalists gathered that the enforcement was to start on March 1.The suspension was decided on at a meeting between representatives of the ministry and leaders...

The Senate Committee on Ethics, Code of Conduct, and Public Petitions has dismissed Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan’s sexual harassment and abuse of office petition against Senate President Godswill Akpabio, declaring it “dead on arrivalThe committee also cited procedural violations and legal constraintsDuring the probe session, the Chairman of the Committee, Senator Neda Imasuen, cited Order 4...

Senate President Godswill Akpabio has denied allegations of sexual harassment made against him by Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan.Akpabio denied the allegation on Wednesday during the Senate’s plenary session after a one-week break.He said, “At no time did I ever harass any woman. I was raised very well by my late single mother and I have always upheld respect for women. I was even awarded the ...

Telecom operators and the Nigerian Communications Commission are expected to revert to the 35 per cent telecom tariff hike agreed upon with the Federal Government, as subscribers decry the continued implementation of the 50 per cent increase.Subscribers, under the umbrella of the National Association of Telecommunications Subscribers, said sustaining the 50 per cent hike despite a compromise deal brokered by the government ...

Governor Siminalayi Fubara is set for a showdown with the Martin Amaewhule-led Rivers State House of Assembly as he rejected the 48-hour ultimatum issued by the lawmakers to present the 2025 budget.The governor also dismissed the assembly’s opposition to his directive for outgoing local government chairmen to hand over to Heads of Local Government Administration.He, however, told his supporters, espe...

The Lagos State government and a coalition of development partners, including the Policy Innovation Centre,  BiNTA Fellowship,  Nigerian Economic Summit Group and Integrity Organisation, have teamed up to explore behavioural insights as a solution to building collapse.The Permanent Secretary, Office of Urban Development, Engr. Olalekan Shodeinde, who spoke at a Workshop with the theme ’’Nudging Ethics...