wants Police, VIO to clamp down on trucks not roadworthy to ply highways Senate The Senate has mandated its Committees on Banking, Insurance and Financial Institutions, and Finance to investigate withholding tax revenues on both bank deposits and dividends. This was even as it urged banks and Central Security and […]
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…Seeks Govt of national unity By Clifford Ndujihe ELDERSTATESMAN, Professor Ben Nwabueze, SAN, has picked holes in the comments of Information and Culture Minister, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, that President Muhammadu Buhari would not resign over the security challenges of the country. Describing reasons given by Alhaji Mohammed for President Buhari’s […]
A prosecution witness and Community Head of Makoko waterfront, Mr Steven Aji, on Tuesday, narrated to an Igbosere High Court, Lagos, how a police officer shot and killed one of his chiefs. Aji said this while giving evidence in the ongoing trial of a dismissed police officer, Cpl. Pepple Boma, […]
By Bashir Bello KANO – The People’s Democratic Party, PDP’s candidate in the last month re-run election into the seat of Rogo Constituency of Kano State House of Assembly, Jibrin Isma’il Falgore has dragged the winner of the election, Magaji Dahiru Zarewa of the All Progressives Congress, APC to […]
Her intention is to inherit my brother’s wealth,says brother-in-law By Joseph Erunke ABUJA- A widow, Mrs Stella Ndidi Amaka Ekwerekwu,has been taken into police custody in Abuja for presenting a four-month old baby boy as son and next of kin to her late husband, Victor Ameachi Ekwerekwu. Mrs Ekwerekwu, according […]
President Muhammadu Buhari …Says the acting chairman has remained as a sole administrator since 2018 By Henry Umoru THE Senate has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to as a matter of urgency, reconstitute the Federal Character Commission, FCC. According to the Senate, failure to put in place the Chairman and members […]
By Joseph Erunke ABUJA- BARELY four months after it dismissed 70 staff for engaging in certificate forgery, the National Examinations Council, NECO,has sacked another 19 of its staff on similar offence. The sack,according to the examination body, in a statement by by Azeez Sani,its Head, Information and Public Relations Division,Tuesday,was approved […]
Nigerian Flag …Sabotage threatening oil output increase — NNRC By Michael Eboh Nigeria has continued to suffer value over its refusal to refurbish its moribund refineries and inability to effectively police its oil and gas assets, as data obtained yesterday, from the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, revealed that the […]
Gov Ugwuanyi of Enugu state …March on streets to Government House …Say govn is the first to pay them new wage without crisis There was jubilation in Enugu State, Tuesday, as civil servants marched through the streets of Enugu to the Government House, to thank Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi for being […]
Chief of Army Staff, Gen. Tukur Buratai The Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen. Tukur Buratai, says the Nigerian Army is making giant stride against Islamic States of West Africa Province (ISWAP) and Boko Haram terrorists in the North east. Buratai stated this at the opening of the 2nd edition of […]