Retired police officers staged a peaceful protest against the pension scheme in Kaduna Monday.
The officers, who marched to the state police command headquarters to air their grievances, insisted that they were not interested in what they described as “a killer scheme”.
For some time, police officers in the country have been kicking against the pension scheme.
President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the removal of the Board Chairman of the Nigerian Copyright Commission (NCC), Mr. Tonye Jaja, according to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN). The board was inaugurated on May 28, last year by the Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami (SAN). A letter to this effect, from Dr. Dayo Akpat (SAN), the Solicitor-General,…
President MuhammaduBuhari has raised an alarm over the decline in the country’s revenue amid the Coronavirus pandemic. Vice President Yemi Osinbajo who delivered President Buhari’s remark at the start of the first-year Ministerial performance review retreat holding in Abuja on Monday September 7, said his administration adopted a N2.3 trillion economic sustainability plan to mitigate…
Abba Kyari, the disgraced Deputy Commissioner of Police, DCP, and ally to internet fraudster Hushpuppi while in charge of the Inspector-General of Police’s Intelligence Response Team, IGP-IRT, arrested and detained a man, Sunday Okoro, from Sapele, Delta State, since September 2020, following some complaints about threat to life. It was learnt that the suspect’s wife,…
Two young men identified as Henry Agbo and Wisdom Ofri have gone missing. The duo who are both staff of a logistic company located along the Murtala Mohammed highway went missing after visiting a ‘girlfriend’ in Calabar they reportedly met through a social networking site, facebook.According to TheParchment, after series of chat, the lady invited…
The Kano State Fire Service on Friday confirmed the death of five of the six people trapped under a heap of sand at Ramin Farar Kasa in Dauni village in Minjibir Local Government Area of the state. The Public Relations Officer of the service, Alhaji Saidu Muhammad, said in a statement in Kano that the…
The Central Bank of Nigeria has increased the benchmark interest rate by 100 basis points to 17.5 per cent. The decision was approved by Monetary Policy Committee of the Central Bank. The CBN Governor, Godwin Emefiele, disclosed this while reading the communiqué of the first MPC meeting of the year on Tuesday. This is the…