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Insecurity is holding down development, President Muhammadu Buhari told senators and House of Representatives members Tuesday night. He said the menace has inhibited his administration’s ability to build infrastructure and engage in other development targets it set for the country. According to him, the prevailing situation requires hard choices and difficult decisions that must be taken with diligence and patriotism. …

President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday praised the resilience of Nigeria to remain a united entity. The President spoke at State House, Abuja, while receiving the report of the National Security Summit held on May 26, by the House of Representatives. The report was submitted by a team of House members, led by the Speaker Femi Gbajabiamila. He said: “We are …

Edo’s 28-man Judicial Panel of Inquiry constituted to investigate police brutality, human rights abuses and extrajudicial killings by the disbanded police unit, Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) in the state, on Tuesday submitted its report to the state Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki. Receiving the report from the Chairman of the Panel, Hon. Justice Ada Ehigiamusoe, at the Government House, Benin City, …

Governor Godwin Obaseki-led administration of Edo State has issued over 6,500 Certificates of Occupancy (C-of-O) in three years and digitized over 30,000 files carried on from the Midwest Region through Bendel and Edo State. Managing Director, Edo State Geographic Information Service Agency (EdoGIS), Arch. Frank Evbuomwan, disclosed this in a chat with journalists in Benin City, Edo State. Evbuomwan noted: …

Nigeria has unveiled the state-of-the-art surveillance system, Falcon Eye for maritime security that will save the country several billions of US dollars, while effectively degrading piracy and other crimes around the Gulf of Guinea and beyond. Vice President Yemi Osinbajo (SAN), who represented President Buhari at the commissioning of the facility, said on Tuesday. The surveillance facility incorporates various sensors …

The Former Governor of Imo State and the Senator representing Imo West Senatorial District, Rochas Okorocha, yesterday dismissed the report that he has joined the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. Okorocha spoke in a statement to newsmen in Owerri through his Special Adviser on Media, Sam Onwuemedo, saying that the report of defection was to blackmail him out of his party, …

The Middle Belt Forum,MBF, has raised alarm over the massive destruction of over 45 farmlands by suspected Fulani herdsmen across some communities in Plateau State. The MBF, which raised the concerns in a statement by Dr. Isuwa Sogo, its National Publicity Secretary, Tuesday in Abuja , lamented that cutting down of food crops with cutlasses and matchetes was deliberate efforts …

Human Rights activist and Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Femi Falana, Tuesday, said that every attempt by President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration to take the country back to 1984 era will largely be resisted by Nigerians. Falana who disclosed this at the 13th Wole Soyinka Centre Media Lecture Series to commemorate his 87th birthday, said that the treatment meted out to Nnamdi …

The Senate on Tuesday passed a bill seeking to establish the Electoral Offences Commission and okayed 20-year jail term for candidates caught snatching ballot materials. The passage of the bill followed the consideration of a report by the Committee on Independent National Electoral Commission. Chairman of the Committee, Senator Kabiru Gaya (APC, Kano South), in his presentation, said the bill …

The All Progressives Congress has denied the suspension of former Imo State Governor Senator Rochas Okorocha. The party made this known in a statement by its Caretaker/Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee, John James Akpanudoedehe, titled, ‘APC Alerts on fake letter of Senator Rochas Okorocha ‘Suspension’. According to Akpanudoehede the letter in circulation claiming that Okorocha has been suspended was forged. The …