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The Federal Government, through the Ministry of Transportation, on Thursday noted that there were no plans to ban operations of commercial motorcycles popularly known as ‘Okada’ as a means of transportation in the country. The Minister of State for Transportation, Ademola Adegoroye, made this clarification while speaking in Abuja at the Annual Strategic Stakeholders Summit of the Amalgamated Commercial Tricycle …

President Muhammadu Buhari is attending the Nigeria Excellence Award in Public Service (NEAPS) where awards would be conferred on 43 distinguished individuals, including former President Goodluck Jonathan. Also being conferred with various categories of honours in recognition of their public service contributions are Senate President Ahmad Lawan; Speaker Femi Gbajabiamila and 16 Governors, including Rivers’ Nyesom Wike. NEAPS was set up to …

Nigeria’s Federal Government has filed seven grounds of appeal against the October 13 Court of Appeal judgment which discharged the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu. It asked the Supreme Court to set aside the judgment and restore the charge against the respondent to be tried at the trial court. The government, in a motion on notice …

The Supreme Court is billed to deliver final judgement on the PDP governorship tussle in Delta State on Friday. A violent crowd of party supporters has pulled down the entry doors of the Supreme Court in Abuja where judgement will be delivered on Friday in the Delta State PDP governorship dispute. David Edevbie, a former Commissioner of Finance in the former …

The Conference of Speakers of State Legislatures of Nigeria has accused the National Assembly of blackmailing and undermining the powers of the state Assemblies. Chairperson of the conference and Speaker of the Bauchi House of Assembly, Abubakar Sulaiman, in a statement, yesterday, specifically targeted Deputy Senate President and chairperson of the Constitution Review Committee, Ovie Omo-Agege, of deliberately demonising state assemblies …

Edo State Government said today that it has uncovered plans by mischief makers to disrupt the presidential campaign rally of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), scheduled for Saturday, October 22, 2022 in the state. Then government warned that it would bring the full weight of the law upon any individual involved in the reprehensible act. Secretary to the Edo State …

The low rating of Edo State (34) in the Ease of Doing Business (EoDB) is a source of worry as the government has vowed to work with all stakeholders to reverse the trend. At a workshop held in conjunction with GIZ in Benin City yesterday, Kelvin Uwaibi, who is the Secretary of the Ease of Doing Business in the state, …

The apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, has commended the regime of the President, Major General, Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), for the completion of the second Niger Bridge. The organisation said the completion of the project had earned Buhari forgiveness from the Igbo people for not fulfilling his 2015 electoral promises, which included revamping the Enugu coal mine. In a statement …

A new management team and governing board is to be set up for the commission. President Muhammadu Buhari has sacked Effiong Akwa as the sole administrator of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC). A statement issued on Thursday by the spokesperson of the Ministry of Niger Delta Affairs, Patricia Deworitshe, said Mr Akwa’s sack, which has been approved by Mr Buhari, takes …

The President of the Senate, Dr. Ahmad Lawan, yesterday, reiterated that the collaboration between the Executive and the National Assembly was responsible for the success of the 9thassembly as the most productive. Lawan, in a statement by his Media Adviser, Olu Awoniyi, also disclosed the same-page policy propelled President Muhammadu Buhari, to sign into law, 84 bills passed by the …