Author: Festus Adeloye

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday said the withdrawal of Ukrainian troops from the territories annexed by his country is a prerequisite for any settlement of the ongoing war. Putin said this during a visit to the Foreign Ministry in Moscow ahead of the Ukraine peace summit in Switzerland at the weekend. If Ukraine also renounces membership of NATO, Russia would be prepared to cease fire and enter negotiations immediately. His speech was clearly aimed at the current G7 summit in Italy and the Ukraine event opening on Saturday in the Swiss mountain hotel resort of Bürgenstock. The affiliation of…

President Bola Tinubu will depart Abuja, the nation’s capital, for Lagos State on Friday, ahead of Eid-el-Kabir. The President will observe Eid-el-Kabir in Lagos, where he will also spend the Sallah holidays. A statement by the presidential spokesman, Chief Ajuri Ngelale, explained that “the President will mark the occasion in prayers and reflection on advancing the transformation of Nigeria in line with his Renewed Hope Agenda.”

The Inspector – General of Police (IGP) Kayode Egbetokun on Friday cautioned officers soliciting for undeserved promotion. He said most of them used to go through highly place personalities to make the demand. Egbetokun said henceforth any officer found wanting will be penalised. The IGP gave the warning while decorating newly promoted top officers of the Police Force held in Abuja. He advised the newly promoted officers to live up to expectation and be a good example to other officers.

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s efforts at stabilising the economy and scaling up support for the most vulnerable citizens have received a $2.25 billion World Bank boost. Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Mr. Wale Edun, broke the news of two major financial support packages in a statement last night. They include $1.5 billion for the Nigeria Reforms for Economic Stabilisation to Enable Transformation (RESET) Development Policy Financing Programme (DPF) and $750 million for the Nigeria Accelerating Resource Mobilisation Reforms (ARMOR) Programme-for-Results (P-for-R). The statement reads: “This combined total of $2.25 billion will offer essential financial and technical…

The Nigerian Education Loan Fund (NELFUND) has warned federal and state-owned tertiary institutions against supplying inaccurate and incomplete data for the student loan scheme. It urged tertiary institutions to ensure that the information they supply is not only complete but also accurate. The agency said it would publish on June 24 the full list of institutions that have submitted their complete student data, as requested by the agency for upload onto the agency’s Student Verification System (SVS). In a statement by its Head of Media and Public Relations, Nasir Ayitogo, the agency said the list of institutions would be published…

President Bola Tinubu on Wednesday night said that he would approve what is affordable as the new minimum wage, alerting the National Assembly to expect his memorandum on the final settlement. President Tinubu, who spoke during the 25th Democracy Day Anniversary Dinner, at the Old Banquet Hall, Presidential Villa, Abuja, said that the amount to be forwarded to the National Assembly would be such that Nigerians can afford it. Recall that at the end of negotiations on Minimum Wage last week Friday, the Federal Government team alongside the Organised Private Sector, OPS, had slightly increased the offer to N62,000 from…

The Federal Government says it has commenced the audit of inmates across its 256 Custodial Centres in the country, with a view to decongesting the facilities. Minister of Interior, Dr Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo disclosed this after undertaking an inspection of the ongoing 3,000-capacity Maximum Security Custodial Centre in Janguza, Kano State as well as the Medium Security Custodial Centre in Kuje, Abuja. Asked about the audit of inmates, he said; “That is ongoing but the good thing for me is that we did facility audit earlier and we can see that the result of the facility audit is how we are…

The US Supreme Court on Thursday rejected an attempt by a California man to trademark the suggestive phrase “Trump too small.” The court, in a unanimous opinion, ruled that the Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) had correctly turned down the request to trademark the slogan about Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump. Steve Elster, who wanted to print T-shirts with the phrase, had claimed before the court that the PTO’s rejection of his trademark application was a violation of his First Amendment free speech rights. The Supreme Court rebuffed the argument, noting that the Lanham Act prohibits registration of a trademark…

A Federal High Court in Abuja ruled on Thursday, June 13, that it will hear on June 26 the suit seeking to sack the national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Abdullahi Ganduje along with the objection raised against the competence of the suit. Justice Inyang Ekwo gave the ruling following the request by the lawyer to the plaintiff – the North Central APC Forum – Benjamin Favour to be allowed time to reply to the responses filed by Ganduje. The North Central APC Forum, led by Saleh Zazzaga, is in the suit marked: FHC/ABJ/CS/599/2024 querying the propriety of…

Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo state on Thursday, June 13, said he has approved the grading of 30 kilometres of inner roads in all the 33 local government areas of the state. He spoke while responding to requests from members of the state Assembly for the rehabilitation of inner roads across the state. The governor was at the special plenary to present a state of the state address at the legislative chamber in commemoration of the first anniversary of the inauguration of the State’s 10th Assembly. The governor, who was a guest at the special plenary sitting said funds for…