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Following the directive by President Bola Tinubu to security agents to tackle factors responsible for food crisis in the country by clamping down on hoarders and speculators, the Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (FCCPC) has sealed off a well-known supermarket in the Area 11 Garki area of Abuja on Friday. The management of Sahad Store Supermarket was accused of shortchanging customers by charging prices other than the official price tag on their shelves. The FCCPC enforcement team was led by Acting Executive Vice Chairman of the agency, Adamu Ahmed Abdullahi. Briefing journalists thereafter, Abdullahi said the commission’s preliminary investigation…

An elder-statesman and business mogul, Aminu Dantata, has thrown his weight behind the move by some members of the House of Representatives to return to parliamentary system of government in Nigeria. A bill seeking to abolish the presidential system of government and return to a parliamentary system had passed the first reading in the green chamber during Wednesday’s plenary. The bill, titled: ‘The Bills proposing constitutional alterations for a transition to a parliamentary system of government’, was sponsored by sixty lawmakers. Speaking on Thursday when a delegation of the sixty members paid him a consultation visit at his residence in…

President Bola Tinubu has approved the appointment of his son-in-law, Oyetunde Oladimeji Ojo as the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Federal Housing Authority (FHA). Ojo is a former member of the House of Representatives. He is married to Folashade Tinubu-Ojo, the Iyaloja of Lagos. He represented Ekiti west, Ijero and Efon Federal Constituency at the House of Representatives. Ajuri Ngelale, Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity on Thursday announced the appointment of Ojo and other executive management teams of parastatals under the Federal Ministry of Housing and Urban Development. The statement read, “As part of…

President Bola Tinubu has asked the Senate to screen and confirm five persons appointed as directors of the board of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). The president’s request was contained in a letter read by the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, during the plenary on Tuesday. The appointed board directors are; Robert Agbide, Ado Wanga, Murtala Sagaley, Urom Eke and Olayinka Aliyu. In the letter, Mr Tinubu said his request was in compliance with the provision of section 6(1a) and section 10(1)(2) of the CBN Act, 2007. “In compliance with the provision of section 6(1a) of the section 10(1)(2) of…

The United Abia Artistes and Patriots Forum (UAAP) has appreciated the development strides of Governor Alex Chioma Otti of Abia State in less than 9 months of piloting the affairs of the state. Members of the UAAP who passed a vote of confidence on the governor during their hybrid extraordinary annual general meeting on the 10th of February 2024, urged the governor not to relent, but to continue in his quest to rewrite the history of Abia State. The meeting, which had more than 50 diasporan Abian, connected via Zoom, also had numerous others present in the physical meeting in…

The House of Representatives has taken a major step to scrap the current presidential system of government being run in Nigeria and replace it with the parliamentary mode of government. This is as the House introduced three Bills, seeking to alter the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 to allow transition from the current presidential system to a parliamentary system at all levels of government – federal, state, and local government. The Bills, namely ‘Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 (Alteration) Bill, 2024’, HB.1115, HB.1116 and HB.1117 sponsored by Hon. Kingsley Chinda, the Minority Leader and…

The Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission (NUPRC) is exploring the possibility of relocating certain units from Abuja to Lagos. According to a memo dated 14th February 2024, with reference CSA/HGA/MRP/ML/001, seen by Naija News correspondent, the move is to improve organizational efficiency and manage office accommodation in Abuja. The NUPRC added that the relocation is driven by the need to enhance service delivery, reduce operational costs and make adequate utilization of assets in Lagos. The memo, therefore, asked each department to identify and send a list of units that can operate independently with minimal supervision in readiness for the move…

RESOLUTION/PRESS RELEASE OF NDE UKOJI ROYAL CLAN OF OKAGWE-OHAFIA, DATED THIS 14th DAY OF FEBRUARY, 2024. To the good people of Okagwe Ohafia, Ohafia supreme traditional Ruling Body (Ohafia monarch), great concerned Ohafia indigenes and Abia State at large, we, the Nde Ukoji Royal Clan unanimously make our stand and resolution known to the general public, on the Kingship (Eze-ogo) matter in our beloved community. In accordance to our ancestral family rotational order, custom and equity, structured by our forefathers, and the Ohafia monarch’s new order on choosing a traditional ruler, We hereby in one voice, present to you our…

A former Deputy Speaker of the Abia State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Ifeanyi Uchendu has dumped the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), for the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Abia State. “I have officially joined the APC by registering as a member of Isiama ward,” Uchendu said in a chat with The Whisperer. While appreciating the leadership of the party for admitting him into the party, he applauded the performance of the two APC federal lawmakers from Abia State, Senator Orji Uzor Kalu (APC, Abia North), and Rt. Hon. Benjamin Kalu (APC, Bende). He urged other elected lawmakers to emulate…

The United States authorities have released the site of the tragic crash that killed the Chief Executive Officer of Access Holdings, Herbert Wigwe, and five others. In the photos released on Tuesday, two officials of the United States National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) were seen inspecting the debris of the ill-fated helicopter. Wigwe, his wife, Doreen; their son, Chizi Wigwe; and former Nigerian Exchange Group Chairman, Abimbola Ogunbanjo, crashed in an Airbus EC130 helicopter close to the California-Nevada border near Halloran Springs. The four passengers and two crew members on board the ill-fated helicopter died on Friday, February 9. The…