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President Muhammadu Buhari Thursday night pleaded with the leadership of the National Assembly to give him more time for him to compile list of ministerial nominees. President Buhari also told the presiding and principal officers of the nation’s federal legislative arm of government that he was under pressure to nominate members of his cabinet. This is as the Senate President, …

The Senate said yesterday that President Muhammadu Buhari was yet to make a list of ministerial nominees available to it. Chairman, Senate Committee Chairman on Media and Public Affairs, Senator Adedayo Adeyeye, who disclosed this, said that they were anxious to receive and work on the ministerial nominees list. Adeyeye spoke 24 hours after President of the Senate, Senator Ahmad …

The federal government has approved N208 billion as the 2019 intervention funds for public institutions across the country. The reinstated TETFund Executive Secretary, Suleiman Bogoro, made this known at the annual meeting with officials of TETFund and beneficiary institutions in Abuja on Thursday. According to Mr Bogoro, the annual direct disbursement of N826.7 million was allocated to each university, N566.7 million …

Opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Edo State claimed vindication on Wednesday, that the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) government of Godwin Obaseki now agrees with its position that the five-star Benin Central Hospital project is “classic fraud-ridden scam.” The PDP traced the alleged fraud from what it called “the unadvertised without due process award of the contract, to the …

An agent of the main opposition party from Borno State has told the Presidential election petition tribunal that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) connived with the ruling All Progressives Congress to ensure a fraudulent increase of over 1,000 polling units in the state, during the February elections. The witness, Nickolas Shediza, a state collation agent for the Peoples Democratic …

Ghana is the latest country to be granted a visa-free status by the South African government. South Africa’s Department of Home Affairs has added Ghana to a list of seven countries whose nationals will be permitted to enter South Africa visa-free. Nigeria was not included despite the large volume of trade between the two countries. South Africa announced in September …

President Muhammadu Buhari has requested the confirmation of Ibrahim Tanko Muhammad as the substantive Chief Justice of Nigeria. Mr Buhari’s request was contained in a letter read at the start of Senate plenary on Thursday. Mr Muhammad was first appointed in January after the president controversially suspended Chief Justice Walter Onnoghen, who was accused of false declaration of asset. Following the recommendation, …

The Senate is to postpone its long vacation by one week to enable it consider President Muhammadu Buhari’s ministerial list that was sent to the upper legislature last night, The President of the Senate, Senator Ahmed Lawan, had wednesday afternoon assured his colleague that the list was on its way. THISDAY learnt from reliable presidency and Senate sources that the …

An internal circular of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has indicated that the commission transmitted voter information from smart card readers to a central server during the 2019 presidential elections. The document, which was first posted on social media by Reno Omokri, an opposition PDP operative, on Wednesday afternoon, carried a directive from national secretary of INEC, Rose Oriaran-Anthony, …

House of Representatives, yesterday, refused request to formally assume the functions of the Edo State House of Assembly. The House, instead, resolved to set up an ad-hoc committee to investigate the crisis that had engulfed the assembly. The resolution was reached at yesterday’s  plenary, after considering a motion sponsored by Julius Ihonvbere, Peter Akpatason and Johnson Oghuma. Meanwhile, Speaker of …