Archive for category: news updates

President Bola Tinubu on Tuesday afternoon, January 9, summoned the Minister of Interior Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo to the Presidential Villa in Aso Rock, Abuja. According to TheNation, the minister was summoned to Aso Rock over payment of N438m as consultancy fee to a company linked to him by the suspended...

Continue reading

South Korea’s parliament on Tuesday, January 9, banned the breeding, sl@ughter and sale of dogs for human consumption, putting an end to a centuries-old practice. The law put an end to the distribution and sale of food products made or processed with dog ingredients, according to the corresponding committee...

Continue reading

The Taraba State Government is set to make master’s degree the minimum academic requirement for anyone intending to teach in the state’s secondary schools. The state governor, Dr Agbu Kefas, who disclosed this on Sunday, January 7, also said that the minimum academic qualification for primary schoolteachers will be...

Continue reading

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has summoned the suspended Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, Betta Edu, to its headquarters over an alleged N585million scandal. This comes moments after Betta was suspended by president Bola Tinubu with immediate effect on Monday, January 8, 2024. An operative...

Continue reading

President Bola Tinubu has suspended Betta Edu as minister of humanitarian affairs and poverty alleviation. The Minister has been under fire after a memo surfaced wherein she asked Oluwatoyin Madein, accountant-general of the federation, to transfer the sum of N585 million to a private account. Ajuri Ngelale, the president’s...

Continue reading

Lilo Aderogba the Big Brother Naija reality TV star, has responded to rumors that she is pregnant based on her most recent pictures. The reality actress wished her followers a good Sunday on her Instagram page, where she posted pictures of herself wearing a flowing outfit that might pass...

Continue reading

Pope Francis has called for a universal ban on surrogacy, saying the practice of a woman carrying another person’s child was “deplorable”. Francis said surrogate motherhood represented a grave vi%lation of the mother and child and urged the international community to prohibit the practice. The 87-year-old pontiff said this...

Continue reading

Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, have arrested a 28-year-old female supplier of amm¥nition to bandits, identified as Bilkisu Suleman. She was arrested on Wednesday, January 3, 2024, by NDLEA officers on patrol along Zaria Kano expressway in possession of 249 rounds of 7.62 mm live...

Continue reading

Nigeria has been ranked the 22nd country with the cheapest Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) price in the world. The new report titled ‘Global Petrol Prices, Octane-95’ dated January 1, 2024, disclosed that majority of countries pay over 100 times more for petrol. The report which compared the prices of...

Continue reading

President Bola Tinubu has ordered a thorough probe of the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation led by Betta Edu. The Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris, made this known in a statement on Sunday. Controversy had enveloped Edu’s alleged involvement in the approval of N585,198,500.00...

Continue reading