ASHENEWS reports that a suit at the Federal High Court in Abuja has been instituted against the Labour Party (LP) presidential candidate, Peter Obi seeking to disqualify him over his alleged possession of dual citizenship of two countries.
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German Defense Minister Christine Lambrecht has formally submitted her resignation from the government position, the German news agency reported on Monday.
Temperatures have plunged to minus 50 degrees Celsius (-58 Fahrenheit) this week in Yakutsk during an abnormally long cold snap in the Siberian city known as the coldest on earth. Located 5,000 km (3,100 miles) east of Moscow on the permafrost of the Russian Far East, residents of the mining city often see the thermometer regularly drop well below minus 40. “You can’t fight it. You either adjust and dress accordingly or suffer,” said Anastasia Gruzdeva, outside in two scarves, two pairs of gloves, and multiple hats and hoods. “You don’t really feel the cold in the city. Or maybe…
The Crown-Hill University in Ilorin Kwara state had appointed a University of Ilorin lecturer, Professor Jeleel Ojuade as the new Vice Chancellor
President Muhammadu Buhari has promised to consider the requests for assistance made by Osun state governor, Ademola Adeleke who was at the State House on a ‘thank you’ visit. The governor, elected on the platform of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), said he had come to appreciate the President for providing a level playing field in the election that was held in July last year. He said: “I had waited patiently for this appointment, and was praying fervently for it to happen. It’s a dream come true for me to see you, and have a handshake. “I am a…
Multi-party democracy is the best system of government, President Muhammadu Buhari declared on Wednesday in Abuja. He said his declaration stemmed from his experiences both as a military head of state and as a civilian president. He made the declaration when he hosted a delegation of the Universal Peace Federation Africa which visited him. President Buhari said he wondered why some African countries were still descending into the abyss of unconstitutional change of government, saying: “I thought we had finally put that behind us.’’ On the Peace Summit being planned for Abuja to bring all African countries together before the…
A glitch with the Federal Aviation Administration’s computer system on Wednesday morning grounded all flights across the US. The FAA said it was working to restore its Notice to Air Missions (NOTAM) system, which alerts pilots of potential hazards along a flight route. Some 1,162 flights within, into or out of the US have been delayed today, according to flight tracker FlightAware.com, while 94 have been cancelled. Sky News correspondent Mark Stone, who was at Ronald Reagan Airport in Virginia, said: “Well an almighty mess for the aviation industry in the United States. “All flights as of this morning were…
…Expenditure cuts on government consumption, transfers will ensure fiscal viability/consolidation than tax increases …Fiscal viability can’t be created, sustained with growing budget deficit funded by public debt …Analysis of 2023 budget shows no concrete strategy to jumpstart economy …PPCP will reduce propensity to accumulate public debt under pretext of financing capital projects A development economist, and financial expert, Dr. Chiwuike Uba has said that figures, especially the revenue and expenditure projections in Nigeria’s N21,827.19 trillion 2023 budget passed into law by the National Assembly and assented by President Muhammadu Buhari on January 3, are unrealistic, and inconsistent with the budget’s…
The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has rated the Nigeria’s Federal Ministries of Education, Finance, and Power as high risk on corruption. This is contained in the Commission’s latest ethics and transparency assessment report released on Monday. ASHENEWS reports that the report is part of the anti-graft’s preventive mandate in deploying the Ethics and Integrity Compliance Scorecard (EICS) in federal government’s ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs). The report assesses their compliance to extant ethical, integrity, statutory, policy and regulatory standards and practices. According to the ICPC, the mandate to assess is provided in Section 6(b)-(d) of…
ASHENEWS reports that the Department of State Services (DSS) has uncovered plans by some politicians who it described as “disgruntled elements within and outside the government” to sponsor smear campaigns against the director-General of State Security Services (SSS), Yusuf Magaji Bichi. This is contained in a statement by the spokesperson of the Service, Peter Afunanya made available to newsmen on Tuesday. According to him, the Service has been monitoring the development called on members of the public be “wary of these tendencies and ignore the antics of dark forces out to impugn the character of the DG.” Read the statement…