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Former Minister of Finance, Senator Nenadi Usman, has emerged as chairman of the national caretaker committee of the Labour Party (LP). This decision was taken on Wednesday at the Labour Party’s extended stakeholders meeting held at the Banquet Hall of Abia State Government House in Umuahia, Abia State capital. The party's former chairman, Julius Abure was conspicuously absent at the well attended event. Usman, who defected to LP during the 2023 general elections, heads the caretaker committee consisting of 29 persons. She was elected senator to represent Kaduna South Senatorial District in the April 2011 elections on the platform of…

The Borno State Finance Commissioner, Ahmad Ali Ahmad, is dead. He was found dead in his bedroom on Monday morning. A statement by the Borno State Government on Monday has also confirmed the incident. There was no indication of the cause of death. Ahmad The statement signed by the Commissioner for Information and Internal Security, Usman Tar, also said the late Commissioner would be buried by 5 pm on Monday, August 26, 2024, at his family residence on Damboa Road, behind the Indimi residence in Maiduguri.”

Another Nigerian government executive jet has been seized by an aggrieved investor, this time in Canada. The jet, a Bombardier 6000 type BD-700-1A10, was previously seized from Dan Etete, a former petroleum minister, and had been stored in Canada.  Zhongshang Fucheng Industrial Investment Ltd, a Chinese company, successfully repossessed the private jet valued at $57million from the Nigerian government.  The company, which has been seeking to confiscate Nigerian assets, received the necessary paperwork for the transfer of custodianship from Canadian authorities in Montreal.This development comes after a Canadian court ruled in favour of Zhongshang, granting the company permission to seize…

Kidnappers of 20 medical students of the Universities of Jos and Maiduguri have demanded a ransom of N50 million. They also threatened to start killing some of the students from Sunday if they did not get the money on Saturday, 17 August, 2024. The students were heading to the annual convention of the Federation of Catholic Medical and Dental Students (FECAMDS) in Enugu State when kidnappers cornered them on Thursday. They were ambushed and taken by gunmen around 5:30 pm in the Otukpo area of Benue State. The kidnappers last Friday granted their victims access to their phones to enable…

The kidnapped Commissioner for Youth Development in Anambra State, Patrick Mba, and his wife Chizoba, have been released by their captors. According to PUNCH newspaper, a top government official said they were released on Saturday. “The kidnapped commissioner of youth development and his wife have been released today,” the source added. The official, who pleaded anonymity in order to give the information, said the government would issue an official statement soon. Mba and his team were attacked on August 16. One of his aides was killed in the process. They were said to be travelling to Abuja to attend the…