Deputy Senate President Ike Ekweremadu, on Wednesday, said the country’s democracy is receding and it is not unlikely for the military to take over. Ekweremadu said this while contributing to a debate on a motion sponsored by Ahmed Ogembe, senator…
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SUBMIT REPORTS OF AUDITED ACCOUNTS: SENATE GIVES GOVT. AGENCIES, OTHERS ULTIMATUM
The Senate has given an ultimatum to over 256 Federal Government’s agencies and parastatals to present reports of their audited accounts up to 2017 or have their 2018 budgets withheld. The upper chamber of the National Assembly issued the ultimatum while…
ALLEGED GRATIFICATION: EFCC RE-ARRAIGNS FORMER KWARA INEC SECRETARY
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Wednesday re-arraigned a former Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Administrative Secretary in Kwara State, Mr. Christian Nwosu on charges of accepting gratification. Nwosu was charged alongside Tijani Bashir, as well as former…
LAGOS POLICE: RETURN EXHIBITS OR FACE THE CONSEQUENCE
Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Imohimi Edgal, has called on policemen who converted exhibits and vehicles in their care to their personal use to return them immediately. The police boss, who disclosed this yesterday at the State Criminal Investigations and…
NIGERIAN IT ENTREPRENEUR BECOMES ITALY’S FIRST BLACK SENATOR
Toni Iwobi, a Nigerian IT entrepreneur who has spent 38 years in Italy, has become the first black senator in the European country. He was elected in the industrial city of Brescia in northern Italy. “Friends, it is with great emotion that…
23 BILLION NAIRA DISBURSEMENT TO ASUU- REPS ORDER PROBE
The House of Representatives on Monday commenced investigation into the disbursement of N23 billion released by the Federal Government to the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU). Chairman, Committee on Tertiary Education of the House, Rep. Suleiman Aminu, requested for…
MONEY SWALLOWED BY MYSTERIOUS SNAKE: JAMB OFFICIAL MAKES NEW CONFESSION
Philomina Chieshe, the official of the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB), who claimed that the board’s N36 million was swallowed by a snake, has made a U-turn. Chieshe, who works as a clerk at the JAMB office in Markurdi,…
IMO PDP REACTS TO ATTACK ON THE CATHOLIC ARCHBISHOP
The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has reacted to the reported attack on the Catholic Archbishop of Owerri Archdiocese, Anthony Obinna, by members of the All Progressives Congress, APC. The cleric was said to have been attacked by loyalists of Governor…
DETAINED JOURNALIST RELEASED BY DSS
The Abuja Bureau Chief of The Independent Newspapers, Mr. Tony Ezimako has been released by the Department of State Services. The security agency was said to have released him around 10:30pm in Abuja on Wednesday night Journalists and members of civil society…
SARAKI CHARGES NIGERIANS IN DIASPORA ON ADVOCACY AND LOBBYING FOR DIASPORA VOTING
Senate President Abubakar Bukola Saraki, has charged Nigerians living outside the country to be more active in the advocacy and lobbying for Diaspora voting. He said this would make it easy for the National Assembly to get the needed popular…