Senator Monday Okpebholo emerges Edo State APC governorship candidate
Senator Monday Okpebholo has defeated Senator Adams Oshiomole’s adopted candidate Dennis Idahosa who was earlier announced as the winner of the primary that was declared inconclusive by APC NWC. The Primary Election Results were declared by Governor Bassey Otu of…
Court grants Ex-Kwara Gov AbdulFatah Ahmed bail
Justice Evelyn Anyadike of the Federal High Court, Ilorin, has granted bail to the former governor of Kwara State, Abdul Fatah Ahmed. The bail conditions are that he should deposit NN50 million to the court and produce surety that has…
Palliative: Customs commences food distribution and sells 25kg of rice for N10,000
The Nigeria Customs Service, NCS, will today commence the sale of seized bags of rice to the public at the rate of N10,000 per 25kg. Disclosing this to newsmen in Lagos, Comptroller General of the NCS, Mr. Adewale Adeniyi, said…
Journalists Barred As EFCC Arraigns Former Kwara Gov Ahmed
Ahmed was governor of the North Central state between May 2011 and May 2019 before he handed over to Governor Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq. Journalists were sent outside the court premises where former governor Abdulfattah Ahmed is being arraigned on trial. The…
Banks Contributed To Destroying Nigeria’s Economy, Says Yuguda
He further alleged that the banks engage in illegal transactions that even the regulators find difficult to unravel. A former governor of Bauchi State, Isa Yuguda, has accused banks of being contributors to the destruction of the Nigerian economy. The…
Food Security: FG Didn’t Give States N30b Each, Makinde Replies Akpabio
Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State has faulted the claims by Senate President Godswill Akpabio that states got an additional N30 billion each to address food scarcity. Akpabio had made the comment some days back but at the commissioning of…
Senate rejects bill to extend years of service for NASS workers to 65
The Senate has rejected the controversial bill seeking to extend the service year for employees of the National Assembly by an additional five year The bill, which had been passed by the House of Representatives, was declined for concurrence by…
Be patient, CBN working to strengthen Naira – Cardoso begs Nigerians.
Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Dr. Olayemi Cardoso, yesterday, begged Nigerians to be patient, as the management of the apex bank is doing everything possible to ensure that the Naira is strengthened. Cardoso said this at the 2024…
CDA News updates you need to know Friday morning
Good morning dear esteemed readers! Here is today’s summary from Nigerian Newspapers: 1. President Bola Tinubu has approved the reconstitution of the management of three agencies under the Federal Ministry of Communications and Digital Economy. In a statement by Chief…