Ministries Departments and Agencies (MDAs) of the federal government will start appearing before members of the National Assembly on Tuesday to defend their budgetary allocations for the 2025 fiscal year. Chairman of the Senate Committee on Appropriations, Adeola Olamilekan, disclosed this on Monday during a meeting with committee chairmen and principal officers of the Senate. … Read more
Kaduna Central Senator, Lawal Usman, on Wednesday, narrowly escaped assassination attempt while visiting his constituency for the New Year celebration. The assailants attacked Mr Usman, a member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), around Kawu area of Kaduna North Local Government of Kaduna State. Witnesses said the assailants pelted Mr Usman’s vehicle with stones and … Read more
The police in Imo State, south-east Nigeria, have arrested eight suspects over an attack on the residence of a former senator, Frank Ibezim, in the state. The attack PREMIUM TIMES earlier reported that some hoodlums attacked and razed the former senator’s residence on Monday night. The incident happened in Nsu, a community in Ehime Mbano … Read more
According to former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s July 30 periodic transaction report, her husband, Paul Pelosi, bought 10,000 shares of Nvidia valued between $1 million and $5 million and sold 5,000 shares of Microsoft. The move comes after Pelosi recently bought 10,000 shares of Nvidia on June 26, according to a July 2 financial disclosure. … Read more
The 2024 Ojude Oba festival in Ijebu-Ode, Ogun State held on Tuesday, is one for the books. The event, trending on social media, dazzled with its spectacular glitz, grandeur, and cultural resonance. It was a celebration that will be remembered for a long time. This year, the festival honours Awujale, the king of Ijebu-Ode and … Read more
U.S. lawmakers pressed Boeing’s chief executive Tuesday about the company’s latest plan to fix its manufacturing problems, and relatives of people who died in two crashes of Boeing 737 Max jetliners were in the room to remind him of what was at stake. CEO David Calhoun appeared before the Senate investigations subcommittee, which is chaired by … Read more
Drake has seemingly bet big on the Edmonton Oilers to win the Stanley Cup Finals. A recent post on his Instagram account outlines a $500,000 US bet in favour of the Canadian team hoping to bring the Cup north of the border for the first time in 30-plus years. “Oilers are self explanatory,” reads the post from … Read more
Retired major-general William Anders, the former Apollo 8 astronaut who took the iconic Earthrise photo showing the planet as a shadowed blue marble from space in 1968, was killed Friday when the plane he was piloting alone plummeted into the waters off the San Juan Islands in Washington state. He was 90. His son, retired air force … Read more
Members of Parliament targeted in a suspected China-backed espionage campaign weren’t informed because the attack was thwarted and didn’t affect them, says a spokesperson for the Speaker’s office. The statement comes a day after parliamentarians called out the government for not informing them that they had been targeted for a pixel reconnaissance cyber attack launched … Read more
Elon Musk lashed out at Australia’s prime minister on Tuesday after a court ordered his social media company X to take down footage of an alleged terrorist attack in Sydney, and said the ruling meant any country could control “the entire internet.” At a hearing overnight, Australia’s Federal Court ordered X, formerly called Twitter, to … Read more
