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The Budget Office of the Federation has said restructuring Nigeria into six regions is pivotal to reducing the high cost of governance. It noted that the number of ministers also needs to be pruned and the number of political office holders and their aides reduced, lamenting that the huge recurrent expenditure had constrained the provision of good roads, steady power …

The COVID-19 vaccines purchased by the Mastercard Foundation and the Africa CDC through the Saving Lives and Livelihoods initiative have arrived Nigeria. The Johnson and Johnson brand vaccines arrived at the international wing of the Nnamdi Azikiwe Airport, Abuja at 4.30p.m. on Monday, November 29. According to the organisation, UNICEF Nigeria received the vaccines and will be responsible for the …

The Lagos State Government on Friday ordered the indefinite closure of Dowen College, Lekki, pending the outcome of an investigation into the death of Master Sylvester Oromoni Jnr, a student of the school. This was contained in a statement signed by the Assistant Director, Public Affairs, of the Lagos State Ministry of Education, Ganiu Lawal. The statement read, “The Lagos …

The Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, SAN, says all is set to launch the pilot nationwide deployment and use of Virtual Court Proceedings in Nigeria’s Correctional Centres. Malami said this in a statement by Dr Umar Gwandu, his Special Assistant on Media and Public Relations, on Friday in Abuja. He said the pilot project …

The Lagos State Judicial Panel of Inquiry on the investigation of the Lekki Tollgate incident and cases of police abuses has disclosed how it arrived at the finding that a massacre occurred at Lekki tollgate on the night of October 20, last year. In a response to the Lagos State government’s white paper, released on Thursday, the panel said it …

The House of Representatives has resolved to investigate allegations of duplication of projects, worth N20.138 billion, in the 2021 budget. The House resolved to set up an ad-hoc committee to investigate the allegation by the Chairman of the Independent and Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), Bolaji Owasanoye, that 257 projects were duplicated in the 2021 budget. The anti-graft …

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) says it operatives have arrested three suspects with over 1,000 Automated Teller Machine (ATM) cards at the Malam Aminu Kano International Airport in Kano, Kano State. The commission, in a statement on Friday, said the suspects were caught trying to smuggle a total of 1,144 ATM cards out of the country.Musa Abubakar Umar Wilson Uwujaren, …

On Saturday, December 4, the people of Gambia will go to the polls to elect their president. In the election, Gambian President Adama Barrow will face five challengers in the first voting exercise since the exiled former leader Yahya Jammeh fled the country after refusing to accept defeat five years ago. Last month, the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC), the country’s …

An all-white tribunal in London yesterday ruled that the Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office formerly known as British Department for International Development (DFID) in Nigeria racially discriminated against a black senior civil servant, Ms. Sonia Warner after launching an inquiry into her sex life. Sonia Warner, a British civil servant for 33 years who oversaw government grants given to Nigerian …

Sokoto, Nigeria – Christians in Nigeria’s Zamfara State have been cautioned against public worship in churches lest they be attacked, abducted, and their places of worship torched. The warning, for which a “Fulani association” claims responsibility, is contained in a letter circulated by the office of the state police commissioner.  “The command has already alerted its Divisions/Formations for immediate proactive …