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Governor Rotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State has suggested the scrapping of the Senate in the new Constitution being planned. Besides scrapping the Senate, Akeredolu also wants the National Assembly should be on a part-time basis to reduce the cost of governance. The governor made these observations at the Akure Centre of the South-West Zonal Public […]

President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the take-off of the National Senior Citizens Centre. He has also approved the constitution of its 12-member board with immediate effect, the presidency has announced.   This was announced in a series of Tweets by Presidential spokesman, Garba Shehu.   Shehu said the establishment of the centre was in line […]

The emergence of the group known euphemistically as Unknown Gunmen has become a key factor in the current surge of insecurity in Nigeria’s South East, parts of South-South, and others. Until they are unmasked and perhaps tamed or persuaded to lay down their arms, the inferno is only going to escalate. They move with the […]

…as Buhari, APC, condemn act   Ohanaeze Ndigbo, the apex Igbo sociocultural organisation, has described the assassination of Ahmed Gulak by the unknown gunmen in Imo State on Sunday as alien to Igbo custom.   Gulak, an ex-aide of former President Goodluck Jonathan and a chieftain of ruling All Progressives Congress, was killed by a […]

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board on Monday has ruled granting any further extension of time for registration for the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination.   It gave a caveat, however, saying that such extensions would be given only to candidates with genuine proofs of failed efforts will be allowed new extension dates.   JAMB announced […]

Streets in many Southeastern Nigerian cities are empty, quiet on this day, May 31. It is the same with markets and other places that usually should be bubbling with humans. Not so today, as the residents keep away from such activities.   They are complying with the sit-at-home order handed down to the citizens of […]