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The House of Representatives Committee on Niger Delta has raised a five-man panel to harmonize the 2020 budget proposal of the ministry to ensure that all pending projects in the 2019 budget were completed before commencement of new ones. The committee chairman, Essien Ayi, inaugurated the panel during the 2020 budget defence yesterday in Abuja. […]

The Chief of Army Staff (COAS) Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai says the Army has engaged in spiritual warfare to counter Boko Haram propaganda. Buratai, represented by Brig.-Gen. Timothy Olowomeye, the Director of Civil Military Affairs, stated this at the 2019 Chaplains annual Training Conference and Retreat on Tuesday in Sokoto. ”We were involved in a […]

The main opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has claimed it has the support of over 70% of registered voters in 18 local governments in Kogi, saying in statement by its national publicity secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, that the party expected a landslide victory in the Nov. 16 governorship election. The party made the claim on Wednesday […]

Investigative journalist ‘FISAYO SOYOMBO spent two weeks in detention — five days in a Police cell and eight as an inmate in Ikoyi Prison — to track corruption in Nigeria’s criminal justice system, beginning from the moment of arrest by the Police to the point of release by the prison. To experience the workings of […]

Investigative journalist ‘FISAYO SOYOMBO spent two weeks in detention — five days in a Police cell and eight as an inmate in Ikoyi Prison — to track corruption in Nigeria’s criminal justice system, beginning from the moment of arrest by the Police to the point of release by the prison. To experience the workings of […]

Nigeria’s anti-fraud office has declared former chairman of the Special Investigation Panel for the Recovery of Public Property (SPIP) Okoi Obono-Obla wanted. The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) said it took the action due to his Obono-Obla’s “repeated failure to appear before it to answer questions bordering on allegations of fraud […]

Former Senate President Bukola Saraki has faulted the court ruling, which ordered the interim forfeiture of two of his properties in Ikoyi, Lagos State. He said the court must have been misled into granting the order, as neither him nor his lawyers were aware of any application by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) […]

Three Nigerians are among other foreign nationals who on Tuesday suffered from fresh xenophobic attacks on foreigners in different locations of Witbank, Mpumanlaga Province, South Africa, the Nigerian community has said. The National Spokesperson of the Nigeria Union, South Africa (NUSA), Mr Odefa Ikele, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on telephone from Witbank, […]

The Senate yesterday, rejected the N23 billion 2020 budget for the Niger Delta Ministry, declaring that the budget was designed to fail. After a marathon budget defence session with the Minister for Niger Delta, Sen. Goodwill Akpabio, the Senate Committee on Niger Delta submitted that the N23.890 billion allocated to the ministry in the 2020 […]

The Police Service Commission (PSC) has approved the appointment of six Deputy Inspectors General of Police (DIG). This was contained in a statement signed by the Head, Press and Public Relations Ikechukwu Ani. The new DIGs are: Abdul Dahiru Danwawu; Lawal Shehu; Adeyemi Samuel Ogunjemilusi; Peter Babatunde Ogunyanwo, all former AIGs and Alex Okpara and […]

The Trade Union Side (TUS), of the Joint National Public Service Negotiating Council (JNPSNC), has said the new minimum wage implementation should start from the date it was signed into law to avoid another round of agitation by public service employees and their trade unions. President Buhari had signed the 2019 National Minimum Wage law […]

A Federal High Court in Lagos on Monday, October 21, 2019, ordered the interim forfeiture of two properties located at Ikoyi area of Lagos State belonging to the immediate past Senate President, Dr Bukola Saraki to be forfeited to the Federal Government of Nigeria. The Ilorin Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission […]