The Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) has announced plans to delist 100,000 companies from its register over prolonged inactivity and non-compliance with statutory requirements under the Companies and Allied Matters Act (CAMA). According to a public notice issued by the Commission, the affected companies have been identified as either not carrying on business, inactive for at…
Former presidential candidate and Labour Party leader, Peter Obi, on Tuesday, September 16, 2025, met with the leadership of Afenifere, the pan-Yoruba socio-political organisation, to discuss Nigeria’s pressing challenges and pathways to national unity. The meeting, held under the chairmanship of Oba Oladipo Olaitan, who also heads a coalition of ethnic nationality groups including PANDEF…
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) on Thursday sealed a factory and eight shops in Nasarawa State for packaging, selling and distributing counterfeit rice. The Investigation and Enforcement Taskforce of the agency, which swung into action following an intelligence report, noted that about N5bn worth of bags of counterfeit rice…
The Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (FCCPC) has warned the public against harmful food in circulation that is endangering millions of lives across the country. The commission sounded the warning at a one-day sensitisation campaign in Jos, the Plateau State capital. Speaking at the programme, the Executive Vice Chairman of the commission, Olatunji Bello,…
GISTSMATE MEDIA reports that the former Minister of Defence, and also of Internal Affairs, Major General (Rtd) Godwin Osagie Abbe is dead. Abbe who also served as Governor of Akwa Ibom and Rivers States during his military career died on Saturday night in Abuja after a protracted illness. Family sources confirmed the passage. He was…
Justice Mohammed Garba Umar of the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has adjourned the arraignment of pro-democracy campaigner and publisher, Sahara Reporters, Omoyele Sowore and two others on cybercrime charges to October 27. Their scheduled arraignment was stalled due to the inability of the federal government to serve the charge sheet on the defendants….
.A member of the House of Representatives, Oluwole Oke, has resigned from the Peoples Democratic Party. Oke, a six-term lawmaker representing Obokun/Oriade Federal Constituency in Osun State, said he decided to leave the PDP after consulting with his political associates, friends, and family members. His resignation letter, which was sighted by our correspondent was dated…
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has warned that institutions failing to submit their matriculation lists for the 2022 and 2023 admission sessions will not have their admissions approved for the 2024 and 2025 exercises. This stern directive was issued by the Registrar, Prof. Is-haq Oloyede, following a persistent failure by some institutions to…
Controversial Nigerian crossdresser, Idris Okuneye, popularly known as Bobrisky, has traced the genesis of his problems to receiving an award for Best Dressed Female at an event. Recall that Bobrisky was awarded the Best Dressed Female at actress Eniola Ajao’s Beast of Two Worlds (Ajakaju) movie premiere in March 2024. The announcement sparked outrage on…
A passenger plane carrying nearly 50 people crashed in a remote spot in Russia’s far eastern region of Amur on Thursday, with no immediate signs of survivors, authorities said. The aircraft, a twin-propeller Antonov-24 operated by Angara Airlines, was headed to the town of Tynda from the city of Blagoveshchensk when it disappeared from radar…