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Members of the National Assembly have criticised the Department of State Services for going public with its warning to lawmakers without a formal security notice to the parliament on potential threats. Several lawmakers who were contacted by our correspondent on Wednesday denied getting any advisory from the DSS to the National Assembly. Some of them, however, expressed fear over the …

The successful auction of the 3.5GHz spectrum licence on Monday this week by the Nigerian Communications Commission, which was won by MTN Nigeria Plc and Mafab Communications Limited has paved way for the deployment of 5G network across the country in 2022. The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), in conjunction with the Federal Ministry of Communications and Digital Economy, on Monday …

Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki has inaugurated a 12-man Edo State Road Safety Advisory Council, charged with the responsibility of coordinating the state’s road safety targets and driving the implementation of the road safety sector strategic plan. The Committee, headed by the Edo State Deputy Governor, Rt. Hon. Comrade Philip Shaibu, was inaugurated at the Government House in Benin …

*Facilities are centers with different expensive equipment needed to grow small businesses & trades *VP to Imo people: “Don’t allow your land become ungovernable” Nigerian Government has commissioned the fourth Shared Facility in Imo State to support Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises across the country. While commissioning the project, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo said federal resources belong to all Nigerians …

Edo State Government has warned real estate developers and other stakeholders in the real estate industry against acquiring land in various communities across the state without following due process relating to layout designs. In a statement, Secretary to the State Government, Osarodion Ogie Esq., said the illegal laying out of acquired land by developers distorts the set-out Land Use Plan …

The Federal Government, on Wednesday, produced 15 suspected invaders of the Supreme Court judge, Mary Odili, for arraignment at the Federal High Court, Abuja. The suspects were led into Court 11 by the operatives of the Nigerian Police Force from the Force Headquarters at about 1:40 p.m. where they will be arraigned before Nkeonye Maha. The News Agency of Nigeria …

• AfDB approves $210m fresh loan for Nigeria’s agro-industrial processing projects• DMO: FG must adopt significant revenue drive to reduce rising debt, fresh borrowings• Senators are specialists in loans approval without scrutiny, says Sani Nigeria’s total public debt as of September, third quarter of 2021, is N38.005 trillion, the Debt Management Office (DMO), has said. This was disclosed in a …

The Lagos Division of the Federal High Court did not declare as illegal or invalid marriages conducted at the Federal Marriage Registry in Ikoyi, Lagos, PREMIUM TIMES reports. Justice D.E Osiagor in his judgment on December 8, obtained by PREMIUM TIMES, granted an order restraining the Ministry of Interior from further contracting, celebrating, or registering marriages under the Marriage Act, …

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo says the incumbent President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), has done his best to proffer solutions to the security challenges confronting the nation, adding that Nigerians should not expect more from the Katsina-born retired major general. Obasanjo made this known this week when leaders of socio-cultural organisations met in Abuja at a retreat on inclusive security …

A bill to restrict the age of presidential candidates to 70 and below elicited intense acrimony on the floor of the Constituent Assembly in 1977 that it pitched the members into different camps. Although the bill was eventually passed, it was removed by General Olusegun Obasanjo, who was the head of the military regime at the time. Bisi Akande, a …