Author: Olukayode Oke

The National Universities Commission revealed on Friday that Nigeria now has 264 universities. The number includes universities owned by federal and state governments as well as private individuals and corporations. The Executive Secretary, NUC, Prof. Abubakar Rasheed, revealed this while presenting provisional licences to some newly established private universities in Abuja. Rasheed also noted that, despite the high demand for tertiary education, it is grossly inadequate compared to the number of institutions.Rasheed also urges the proprietors of the newly established universities to ensure that the motive for creating the universities was not for money but for a higher and noble…

The Inspector-General of Police, Usman Alkali Baba, has ordered the posting of Kenechukwu Onwuemelie to Abia State Police Command as the new Commissioner of Police of the state. The IG similarly approved the posting of Mustapha Bala to the Force Headquarters as the CP in-charge of Special Protection Unit. The Force Headquarters made the latest deployments known through a correspondence signed by the Nigeria Police Force spokesperson, Olumuyiwa Adejobi, on Friday night. CP Onwuemelie holds a B.Sc degree in Psychology from Anambra State University. He was commissioned into the Nigeria Police Force in 1992 and has served in various operational,…

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has suspended the Central Bank Governor, Mr Godwin Emefiele, CFR, from office with immediate effect, the Director of Information, Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation Willie Bassey said in a Friday statement. This is sequel to the ongoing investigation of his office and the planned reforms in the financial sector of the economy. Mr Emefiele has been directed to immediately hand over the affairs of his office to the Deputy Governor (Operations Directorate), who will act as the Central Bank Governor pending the conclusion of the investigation and the reforms.

Operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS) caused a stir at the Anambra State House of Assembly Complex, Awka, as they attempted to arrest a lawmaker-elect on Thursday. The DSS operatives were said to have invaded the Assembly Complex and tried to whisk away the lawmaker-elect for Nnewi North State Constituency, Onyekachukwu Ike. He was initially arrested by the operatives and bundled into the trunk of a car driven and made to leave the Complex before they were stopped. According to an eyewitness, the security men at the gate of the Assembly, upon noticing the unusual incident, shut the…

A civil society group, Justice and Equity Forum, has urged President Bola Tinubu not to allow interested individuals to interfere in the ongoing investigation of former Ekiti Governor, Kayode Fayemi by the anti-graft Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) over alleged money laundering. The forum made the call in a statement issued by its National Coordinator, Olumide Adetifa, in Abuja on Thursday. Adetifa alleged that available information revealed that Fayemi was hobnobbing with a former governor of Kebbi State, who is from the same state with the chairman EFCC in an attempt to undermine or truncate his investigation by the…

No fewer than 20 school officials, allegedly aiding and abetting examination malpractice, have been arrested by the West African Examination Council in its ongoing West African Senior School Certificate Examination for school candidates. The Council said that the arrests were made in various parts of the country. The Head, National Office of the council, Mr Patrick Areghan, disclosed this on the sidelines of a monitoring exercise he carried out in some schools on Thursday in Lagos. According to him, the WAEC has since handed over all the culprits to the police for prosecution. Areghan vowed that the council would do everything…

Oil marketers are currently converting some of their trucks to start supplying gas to filling stations in order to dispense Compressed Natural Gas to vehicles that run on gas. It was gathered on Thursday that about 800 tankers that formerly transported petrol to filling stations, were being converted by marketers to start moving gas to retail outlets. The marketers told our correspondent that they were now collocating CNG dispensing pumps in selected filling stations that dispensed Premium Motor Spirit, popularly called petrol. They stated that the move gained momentum after the halt in PMS subsidy by the Federal Government, following…

The Labour Party and its presidential candidate in the February 25 election, Peter Obi, on Thursday evening, sought an order of the Presidential Election Petition Court in Abuja to interrogate the Independent National Electoral Commission The LP and peter Obi, among other things, are seeking details relating to the information and communication technology experts used by INEC in the conduct of the election. The LP and peter Obi are challenging the declaration by INEC that  Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress won the election. In two separate motions argued by their lawyer, Patrick Ikweto (SAN),peter Obi posed 12 questions…

The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kano State, on Thursday, applied to the Governorship Election Petition Tribunal for an order to inspect electoral materials used during the March 18 governorship poll. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the APC governorship candidate, Dr Nasiru Gawuna, is urging the tribunal to nullify the declaration of Abba Kabir-Yusuf of the NNPP as governor. Kabir-Yusuf polled 1,019,602 votes to defeat former Dep. Gov. Gawuna, who scored 892,705 votes. The petitioner is asking the tribunal to declare him the winner of the election, having scored the highest number of valid votes cast. He…

The immediate-past Minister of Interior and ex-govenor of Osun State, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, has said that he holds no grudge against anyone in Osogbo and Osun State in general. Aregbesola, who arrived the state capital on Wednesday to a warm reception, after his tenure as minister, said this while he paid homage to the Ataoja of Osogbo, Oba Jimoh Olanipekun, and his chiefs. Presenting his compendium of achievements to the monarch, the former governor recalls on when he first arrived the town after the All Progressives Congress had lost power in the state, stating that after four years in government,…

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has directed the National Economic Council (NEC), led by Vice President Kashim Shettima, to begin the process of working on interventions to reduce the impact of subsidy removal on Nigerians. This is even after the independent major oil marketers have pledged to donate no fewer than 100 high capacity buses to the federal government for mass transit operations. The cheering news was dropped by the Governor of Ogun State, Dapo Abiodun, who led the representatives of some major oil marketers on a courtesy visit to President Tinubu at the Presidential Villa, Abuja on Wednesday. Addressing State…

The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Osun State has commenced moves to return to government in 2026. Governor Ademola Adeleke of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) defeated ex-Governor Adegboyega Oyetola in the July 2022 election. On Wednesday, the APC leadership directed party officials in wards and local government areas to resume meetings and every other political activities. At a stakeholders’ meeting in Osogbo, acting State Chairman, Tajudeen Lawal said no effort would be spared to ensure the party returns to power. He explained that the party, convened at the instance of Oyetola, was to chart a new course for the…