Hundreds of protesters stormed the Kaduna State Government House on Thursday, demanding the arrest and prosecution of former Governor Nasir El-Rufai. The demonstration comes after the Kaduna State House of Assembly recently indicted El-Rufai for alleged abuse of office and misappropriation of funds to the tune of N423 billion during his tenure as governor from 2015 to 2023. The protesters, under the banner of Kaduna Citizens Watch for Good Governance, KCWGG, marched from the popular...

Nnamdi Kanu, the embattled leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has made a surprising move by indicating his willingness to negotiate with the Nigerian government. This development comes as a significant shift in Kanu’s stance, who has been a vocal advocate for the independence of the Igbo people and has been standing trial on terrorism-related charges. Kanu, through his lawyer, Alloy Ejimakor, expressed a desire to explore an out-of-court settlement with the Nigerian...

The verification exercises of the Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System (IPPIS) have uncovered 1,618 civil servants with ‘fake/illegal’ employment letters in the payroll of the Federal Government. The Head of the Civil Service of the Federation (HoCSF), Dr Folashade Yemi-Esan disclosed this on Wednesday in Abuja, during a parley with media executives in commemoration of the 2024 Civil Service Week Celebrations. According to her, so far, 69,308 civil servants who participated in the compulsory...

The New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) has accused the All Progressives Congress (APC) led Federal Government of planning to set Kano State ablaze. The party in a press statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Ladipo Johnson, on Wednesday, alleged that since losing the 2023 governorship elections in the state, the APC has been using foul means to come to power in Kano despite the fact that the good people of Kano State rejected them at...