By The Nation Newspaper For the second consecutive time, the Cross River State High Court has ordered the Nigerian Police to arrest and produce a retired Assistant Inspector General of Police (AIG), Joseph Mbu, for prosecution. The court specifically ordered the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Usman Alkali Baba to produce Mbu at its next
By Abdul Seye, Daily Post The Public Account Committee of the House of Representatives has indicted the management of some universities in Nigeria for failing to render audited reports. Some of the schools indicted include; the University of Calabar, Federal University of Technology Owerri, Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, and the University of Agriculture, Makurdi.
By Jonathan Ugbal On Friday, Nigeria’s oldest civil aviation company, Aero contractors resumed flying the Calabar route from Lagos and Abuja after it halted flights into the Cross River State capital for eight months. The airline had halted flights into the city before it stopped scheduling services on July 20, 2022, over financial difficulties. The
By Bakare Majeed, Premium Times The House of Representatives has summoned the Central Bank of Nigeria Governor, Godwin Emefiele, over the new restrictions on cash withdrawals. The House resolved that Mr. Emefiele should appear before it next Thursday. The decision to summon Mr. Emefiele followed a motion of matter of urgent public importance moved by
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Justice Fadimatu Aminu of the Federal High Court, Abuja, on Tuesday, declared the All Progressives Congress (APC)’s senatorial primary for Cross River Central, which produced the Speaker of the Cross River State House of Assembly, Eteng Jonah Williams as null and void. Justice Aminu, in a suit brought by one of the
By Deborah Tolu-Kolawole The Federal Government on Monday said it has increased the number of disciplines in the Nigerian University System to 17. This was made known in a breakdown of the disciplines exclusively obtained by The Punch in Abuja on Monday. The Punch had earlier reported that the government, through the National Universities Commission
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Foremost fact-checking outfit, Dubawa, a brainchild of the Center for Journalism Innovation and Development, CJiD, has commenced its 2022/2023 Prof. Kwame Karikari Fact-Checking Fellowship. In a virtual training that marked the commencement of the fellowship, the Director of Operations, CJID, Oluwatosin Alagbe said the center is a “media innovation think-tank that promotes
By Deborah Tolu-Kolawole, Punch Newspape The National Examinations Council has expressed its readiness to root out incidents of examination malpractice in all its examinations by deploying officials of the Department of State Services and Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps to examination centers. In a statement made available to our correspondent on Monday, the Registrar