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Amid the apparent failure of the federal government to pay state governments their share of monthly allocation from the Federation Account (FA), the Buhari administration’s defensive fulminations at suggestions that the country is broke, amounts to an ostrich evasion that is a recipe for social cataclysm and possible violent implosion of the polity over a […]

As part of the ongoing repositioning of the Service, the Comptroller-General of Customs Col. Hameed Ibrahim Ali (Rtd) has approved the redeployment of 337 Assistant Comptrollers of Customs to various Commands across the country with immediate effect. NCS announced the redeployment in a statement issued on Wednesday by its Deputy Public Relations Officer, Abubakar Dalhatu. […]

Japanese companies are invited to take advantage of the various business opportunities that will be presented by the Special Economic Zones being established in various parts of the country. The zones which will serve as manufacturing hubs will have the necessary infrastructural facilities to support the country’s industrialization drive. Budget and National Planning Minister, Senator […]

Former Senate Leader,  Ali Ndume was on Wednesday suspended by the Senate for six months. The suspension was based on the report of the Senate Committee on Ethics, Privileges and Public Petitions which recommended that the senator be suspended. Just about two months ago, Ndume  was removed as the Leader of the Senate and replaced […]

The Senate today at plenary receives the list of Ministerial nomination from the President, C-in – C, President Mohammadu Buhari. The nominees are Professor Stephen Ikani Ocheni from Kogi State and Suleiman Zarma Hassan from Gombe State. According to the President in an executive correspondence read by the Senate President, Senator Bukola Saraki, the list […]

The worst nightmare to an arm dealer is for a government to make move for a peace deal. The same is true with importers.  And today, that has become the case of the executive arm of the present administration. The move by the National Assembly to do their legislative business, has suddenly become a threat […]

President Muhammadu Buhari has sent names of two new ministerial nominees to the Senate for confirmation. A source close to the Senate told our correspondent that the letter arrived the Senate late Tuesday. The source revealed that the two nominees are from Kogi and Gombe state. Our correspondent gathered that the Kogi nominee will be […]

The Nigerian Senate has called for the suspension of the confirmation of the 27 Nigerians as Resident Electoral Commissioners (REC) of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). The then Acting President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, had sought legislative approval for the nominations. The lawmakers, while speaking on the report by the Senate Committee on INEC at […]

The Nigerian Governor Forum (NGF) has repudiated report that it misappropriated Paris loan refund.NGF made its position public in a statement issued by  Abulrazque B. barkindo Head, media & public affairs. Full text of the statement reads: ‘Our attention has been drawn to publications in the media, which are believed to have emanated from the […]

A former Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Andrew Yakubu, has withdrawn his fundamental human rights enforcement suit, in which he sought N1bn as compensation for his alleged unlawful detention by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). Yakubu had filed the suit before Justice Ahmed Mohammed of the Federal High […]

Nigeria’s Minister of Defence, Mansur Dan-Ali,  has revealed that the leader of the Boko Haram sect, Shekau, has not been killed contrary to many claims of his death by the government in the past. Dan-Ali also said it has been difficult arresting the sect leader because the insurgents normally wear masks to conceal their identities […]

…say NASS is a confused burden Nigerians on Tuesday sent a petition to President Muhammadu Buhari and demanded a referendum on whether the country should retain the present political arrangement having two chambers in the National Assembly. According to them, the National Assembly as constituted at present has remained a burden and is confused as […]