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The Governor of Sokoto State, Aminu Tambuwal, has met with Christian leaders and heads of security agencies in the state following the lynching of a student for allegedly making blasphemous comments. The governor’s spokesman, Muhammad Bello, said in a statement that the governor cut his political engagements to return to Sokoto to meet the stakeholders. The meeting was attended by …

*Promises to fill vacant positions soon President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday held a valedictory session with ten ministers that tendered their resignation letters to pursue their political ambition in the 2023 elections. President Buhari also promised to fill as soon as possible the vacuum created by the departure of the ministers. Minister of information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed disclosed …

• Nigeria pushing for plutocracy, says Kukah• Yiaga Africa: APC, PDP used forms’ prices to marginalise youths, women• Garba dumps APC after withdrawing from presidential race• Stakeholders want units in EFCC, ICPC to probe funds, tax politicians• Experts seek leeway for lax campaign finance regulations, monitoring  Described by some stakeholders as obscene, money laundering scheme, investment and fund-raising tactics, the …

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) is investigating the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for suspected money laundering through their accounts in two banks in Abuja, PREMIUM TIMES can authoritatively report. It is not clear whether the investigation is connected to the ongoing nomination exercises of the parties that have seen high volumes of money …

The barbaric slaughter of Deborah, a young, female Christian student in Sokoto by her fellow students who, within minutes, transformed themselves into a rampaging and wild mob of religious bigots and fanatics is totally unacceptable. It is also inhuman and un-Islamic. Worse still it has set back ethnic and religious harmony in our country and threatens to fuel and resurrect …

Justice Mary Odili, who, yesterday, bowed out the bench of the apex court, yesterday, urged the Federal Government to pay attention to calls for the country to be restructured, warning that some actions that propelled the civil war, were being re-enacted. Justice Odili, who clocked the 70 years mandatory retirement age, spoke at a special valedictory session the Supreme Court …

Three days to the deadline of the directive issued by President Muhammadu Buhari to political appointees seeking to participate in the 2023 elections to resign, three ministers have complied, but others are still hanging on. The Minister of State for Education, Emeka Nwajiuba; the Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Godswill Akpabio, and the Minister of Science and Technology, Ogbonna Onu, …

• Vows to be resolute against political pressure as 18 parties submit register• Considers relocation of sensitive materials from CBN• Says commission can’t regulate cost of nomination forms for politicians The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), yesterday, announced it might move sensitive materials from the Central Bank of Nigeria to another location. Speaking during a consultative meeting with the media, …

…Ohuabuwa insists country must get right leadership in next year’s polls Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has said Nigeria was still battling with leadership deficiency, as it goes into the general elections next year. Obasanjo, who noted that the void in leadership needed to be filled to enable the country succeed in its yearnings for economic growth and development, said the …

The Director-General, Department of State Service (DSS), Yusuf Bichi, says the service has removed a journalist, Lanre Arogundade, from its watch list in which his name featured for 38 years. Bichi said this when a delegation from the Nigerian chapter of the International Press Institute (IPI Nigeria) visited him in Abuja. The Secretary of IPI Nigeria, Ahmed Shekarau, in a …