The Management of Max Air on Thursday announced that it would be evacuating 560 stranded Nigerians in Sudan from Egypt. The airline disclosed this in a statement via its official Instagram social media handle. According to the statement, the airline will send out its Boeing 747-400 aircraft from Egypt. “We are pleased to announce that Max Air, would be sending our Boeing 747-400 aircraft to evacuate 560 Nigerians who fled from the crisis-stricken Sudan and are now in Egypt.” The airline further reaffirmed its commitment to the safety and well-being of Nigerians, adding that it is always ready to go…
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Millions of electricity consumers may be plunged into darkness in the coming weeks as the Federal Government via the Transmission Company of Nigeria and the Market Operator have begun a massive disconnection of debtor electricity distribution companies from the national grid. Unfolding report reveals the development followed notices of disconnection from the grid served on some of the Discos by the Market Operator. The MO, a division of the Transmission Company of Nigeria had informed some Discos, including generating companies of the disconnection plan, due to failure to make remittances of ancillary services bills. Since the noticed by MO, discovery showed…
Nigerias’ President-elect, Bola Ahmed Tinubu has insisted that Nigeria’s unity is non-negotiable, assuring all citizens that he will be fair to all. Tinubu made the remark while noting that he and Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State are working to promote unity. Speaking while commissioning the Magistrates Court Complex in Port Harcourt, Tinubu urged Nigerians to tolerate one another. According to Tinubu: “I will fulfil the promise I made to the people of Rivers State and that is what I intend to do in all policy formations coming up. “I promise Nigerians that the unity of this country is not…
The Federal Government has clamped down on 23 illegal courier operators in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. It was learnt that the Nigerian Postal Service, NIPOST, led by the Courier and Logistics Regulatory Department (CLRD), enforcement team conducted the clampdown around Area 11 Garki and other areas within Abuja on Thursday. Earlier, the Postmaster General of the Federation/CEO, Nigerian Postal Service (NIPOST), Rt. Hon. Adeyemi Sunday Adepoju charged the CLRD enforcement team with the commitment to sanitizing the courier and logistics industry. He reiterated that NIPOST is committed to straightening the mechanisms for implementing a standardized regulation for NIPOST to…
The first batch of Nigerians fleeing Sudan through Egypt arrived at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja on Wednesday night, after nearly two weeks of assurances by the Federal Government. The Air Peace flight carrying over 270 Nigerian students from the Aswan Airport in Egypt first landed at the airport, with the NAF C-130H jet conveying about 80 persons following closely behind. Since April 15, Sudan has been plunged into armed conflict with clashes between rival factions of the North African nation’s military government breaking out in western Sudan, in the capital city of Khartoum and in the Darfur region. …
The House of Representatives has asked the Independent National Commission to remove dead and non-existing people from the voters’ register. This decision was sequel to a motion of urgent public importance moved by Leke Abejide on Thursday. Mr. Abejide in his motion stated that some persons who were long dead had their names still displayed in the voters’ register. He claimed that aside from “dead voters, there are millions of fictitious voters who do not exist anywhere on this planet earth but have their names on INEC registered of voters.” They resolved that INEC should develop a mechanism or software…
Nigerias’ President-elect, Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Thursday appealed to judges not to compromise justice in the cause of their duties. He spoke during the commissioning of the Magistrates’ Court Complex in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital. The President-elect said the complex was an indication that Wike was fighting corruption. “I take a different angle to what Wike has done here today, he is fighting corruption. If you don’t want your judges to be corrupt, you must pay attention to their welfare, “We don’t want our judges to compromise justice, not just the books but do something, and I promise…
President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday in Abuja approved the partial exclusion of the Ministry of Finance Incorporated (MOFI), from the Treasury Single Account (TSA). In a statement by Femi Adesina, Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Buhari also granted the request of the board of MOFI to charge management and transaction fees and include the Minister of Power in its governing council. The President, who conveyed the approval at the first Governing Council meeting of MOFI, recalled that the new MOFI was launched on February 1, 2023, to transform it from a registry of investment records to…
The Speaker of Abia State House of Assembly, Hon. Chinedum Orji, has been impeached by members of the House. It was gathered that About 18 of the 24-member signed for the Speaker’s impeachment Tuesday morning. Four of the members including Ginger Onwusibe, Solomon Akpulonu, Munachim Alozie and Kelechi Onuzuruike refused to sign. His removal followed a motion moved by Hon. Chukwudi Apugo (Umuahia East), and seconded by Hon. Okey Igwe (PDP, Umunneochi). More to follow as event unfolds….
President Muhammadu Buhari has favoured Abike Dabiri-Erewa as she gets reappointed as the chairman of the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission, NIDCOM for a second term. The notice of her reappointment was contained in a letter written by the President to the Senate requesting the Upper Chamber to confirm her reappointment. In November 2018, the President first named Dabiri-Erewa as NIDCOM chair. She was the Senior Special Adviser to the President on Foreign Affairs and Diaspora before the appointment. Dabiri-Erewa was also a member of the House of Representatives representing Ikorodu Federal Constituency in Lagos from 2003-2015. While she was at…
Suspended Resident Electoral Commission (REC), in Adamawa State, Hudu Yunusa Ari has been arrested by police custody. Ari had courted controversy after the supplementary election in Adamawa State on April 15, 2023 when he announced Binani as the winner of the dramatic poll while collation of results was ongoing. The situation prompted INEC to nullify Ari’s decision and suspended him while President Muhammad Buhari ordered full investigation on the electoral commissioner and the security personnel that were around him when he made the declaration. INEC subsequently concluded the election and announced the incumbent governor, Ahmadu Fintiri of the Peoples Democratic…
The House of Representatives has summoned the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama and the Chairman of Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NIDCOM), Abike Dabiri to brief the House on the challenges associated with the evacuation of Nigerians stranded in Sudan. The House also invited officials from the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA). Gbajabiamila issued the invite on Tuesday at the resumption of plenary. It would be recalled that the ongoing civil war in Sudan has led to the emergency evacuation of Nigerians in the war-torn country. The Nigerian officials had claimed that it would take $1.2 million to evacuate 3,500…