The Nigeria Police has initiated a move to stop various judicial panels in some states of the federation probing allegations of rights abuses and other acts of impunity committed by the disbanded Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS). The Police has approached a Federal High Court in Abuja, seeking among others, an order restraining the Attorneys-General...
Read MoreA former Minister of Education, Obiageli Ezekwesili, has called for an assessment of the physical and mental capability of President Muhammadu Buhari to carry on with the duties of his office. Ezekwesili asked that a medical panel be set up to assess the president, noting that the condition of the country has become too...
Read MoreNigerian Vice President Yemi Osinbajo on Tuesday said the government will need to do more and review the conventional means of tackling insurgency and insecurity in the country. Osinbajo, who spoke in Lafia, Nasarrawa noted that the country has to do a lot more local intelligence and strengthen its community policing efforts to unravel...
Read MoreNigerian Senate on Tuesday confirmed the reappointment of Mahmood Yakubu, as Chairman of the country’s electoral body, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for the second term of five years. The nation’s upper legislative chamber confirmed Yakubu reappointment after considering the letter of President Moahammdu Buhari conveying the name of the INEC chairman for...
Read MoreThe Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has agreed to call off its eight-month old industrial action, which has paralyzed the nation’s tertiary institutions, especially the public universities since March. The team of ASUU negotiators reached the consensus during a meeting with the government team led by the Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris...
Read MoreThe Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) commissioner has equated the elections into local government councils conducted by state governments to organised crimes. According to the Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) for Akwa Ibom State, Mike Igini, interference in the election at the grassroots has continued to impact negatively on the conduct of elections in the...
Read MoreNigeria is exempted from the new $15,000 visa Bond policy introduced by the outgoing administration of President Donald Trump, the United States Embassy in the country has started. The US mission in a statement on its website said Nigeria is not included in this six months pilot programme. “In response to the April 2019...
Read MoreA probe panel headed by the retired president of the Appeal Court, Ayo Salami to investigate allegations of corruption and other offences against the suspended Acting Chairman of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Ibrahim Magu, will submit its report to President Muhammadu Buhari today. The panel was set up in July this year...
Read MoreFollowing in the footsteps of his Lagos State counterpart, Kwara State Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRasaq has presented an executive bill to repeal the law granting payment of monthly pension to former Governors and the deputy governors to the state House of Assembly. The Kwara State Asembly Speaker, Yakubu Danladi, announced the presentation of the Bill...
Read MoreThe recent #EndSARS protest in Nigeria may go down in history as the loudest wakeup call since the civil war, for the country to be restructured, according to the president of World Stage Limited, Segun Adeleye. Adeleye who said this in his welcome address at the virtual WorldStage Economic Summit 2020 with the theme,...
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