The World Bank-assisted Community and Social Development Programme (CSDP) has earmarked N500 million for provision of support to 50 communities affected by Boko Haram insurgents in Borno. Alhaji Chiroma Usman, the CSDP programme manager disclosed this at a two-day training of community and group management committees for the projects on Friday in Maiduguri. Usman said […]

Senate President Ahmed Lawan on Friday warned any Minister or Head of Government Agency who failed to defend their budget by the end of October will not be given another opportunity by the National Assembly to do so. Lawan said the National Assembly will not accept any attempt to prevent them from passing the 2020 […]

Deputy Senate President Ovie Omo-Agege on Wednesday urged Nigerians to support the National Assembly’s efforts to enact an effective law against sexual harassment in workplaces and educational institutions in the country. In a statement by his Special Adviser (SA) on Media and Publicity, Yomi Odunuga, the Deputy Senate President explained why he reintroduced the Sexual […]

A 40- year-old teacher, Charles Adetunji, on Thursday appeared before an Ikeja Chief Magistrates’ Court for allegedly aiding a student to write her West Africa Senior School Certificate Examinations (WAEC). Adetunji, who resides at No. 7, Oyewole St., Abule Egba, Lagos, is facing a two-count charge of conspiracy and examination malpractice, to which he pleaded […]

Thirty-six days to the Kogi governorship election, the chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, on Thursday, arrived Lokoja, the Kogi State capital, for a stakeholders meeting. Other notable INEC officers, including the National Commissioner in-charge of Kogi, Nasarawa and Kwara states, Mohammed Haruna. Others INEC national commissioners present include, Okechuku […]

The Chairman of the Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption (PACAC), Prof. Itse Sagay, on Thursday declared that about N1 trillion has been recovered from proceeds of corruption perpetrated by Nigerians in the country. According to him, that figure did not include those recovered from outside Nigeria. He spoke with State House correspondents after meeting with […]

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC ) says it has deployed 26,000 ad hoc staff for the Nov. 16, Kogi and Bayelsa governorship poll. INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu said this during a visit to the commission’s office at Koton-Karfe in Kogi on Thursday. “I want to tell you that for the Kogi and Bayelsa […]

A Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court in Maitama, Abuja, on Tuesday fixed December 11 for hearing in the trial of Col. Sambo Dasuki (retd.) and four others for allegedly misappropriating N19.4 billion arms funds. Justice Hussein Baba-Yusuf adjourned the trial after the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) counsel, Mr Oluwaleken Atolegbe, holding the […]

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has confirmed that 23 political parties will be listed on the ballot for the November 16 governorship election in Kogi State. Making the clarification during a workshop for journalists and media influencers, on the 2019 Kogi governorship election, on Wednesday, in Lokoja, the National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and […]

The Director-General of the National Youth Service Corps, Brigadier General Shuaibu Ibrahim has disclosed that about 95 graduates with fake certificates from Nigerian and foreign universities were apprehended and handed to security agencies during the last orientation exercise. Just as he threatened to blacklist any institution caught including the names of unqualified persons for mobilization […]