President Muhammadu Buhari has said some agencies of government still divert or refuse to fully account for revenue generated despite his government’s anti-corruption drive. Mr Buhari said this Monday when he inaugurated the new board of the Independent Corrupt Practices Commission (ICPC). He did not give the names of the defaulting agencies and did not indicate whether there were plans …
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The Senate is no longer interested in continuing a case it filed at the Supreme Court on the suspension of Chief Justice Walter Onnoghen. In a statement on Monday, Yusuph Olaniyonu, media aide to the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, said the Senate has decided to give the National Judicial Council (NJC)’s intervention a chance. The statement noted that the decision …
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There was drama at the Code of Conduct Tribunal on Monday, after a senior lawyer representing the suspended Chief Justice of Nigeria, Walter Onnoghen, was confronted with allegations of delaying the proceedings by the tribunal chairman, Danladi Umar. Mr Umar was reacting to a request by the lawyer, Adegboyega Awomolo, for an adjournment of the matter, when he accused the …
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Nigeria, Africa’s largest country, is in dire need of doctors to meet the health needs of its citizens, official statistics show. Only one medical doctor is available to cater for every 4,845 Nigerians, the official data sourced by PREMIUM TIMES show. Nigeria’s population, according to the Nigerian Bureau of Statistics, was estimated at 193.4 million in 2016. Meanwhile, the Medical …
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An Appeal Court sitting in Port Harcourt has stayed execution of Federal High Court’s ruling which barred the APC from fielding its candidates in the forthcoming general elections in Rivers State. Following an appeal filed by the All Progressives Congress in the state to stay execution of the judgment of the Federal High Court delivered by Justice Kolawole Omotosho, the …
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The Nigerian Army on Saturday carried out yet another round of reshuffling, barely two months after a similar exercise saw 103 senior officers, including top generals in the Boko Haram war, redeployed. Army spokesperson Sani Usman, a brigadier-general, did not immediately cite reasons for the latest redeployment of at least 15 generals and one colonel. He listed those affected to include …
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The impeachment crisis hovering over the head of the Lagos State Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode, has been resolved following a meeting between the national leader of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu, and other leaders of the party in the state. The Lagos State House of Assembly had threatened to commence impeachment proceedings against Mr Ambode over allegations of illegal budgetary spendings and …
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The Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, has accused the management of the some of Nigeria’s tertiary institutions of mismanagement of funds. Mr Adamu said this during the sixth edition of the weekend ministerial press conference in Abuja on Sunday. He said his ministry would soon set up visitation panels to probe the finances of the institutions. ”May I at this …
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Benin City Nigeria – Civil Empowerment & Rule of Law Support Initiative (CERLSI) has called on the Buhari administration to draw a lesson from Vice President Osinbajo’s helicopter crash and declare a national federal road emergency, making it compulsory for all federal dilapidated roads to be fixed. The organization, in a statement released on Saturday by its Deputy Executive Director, …
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By. MIKE OSAROGIAGBON A two-Day Capacity Building Program was at the weekend organised for officers and men of Zone 5 of the Nigeria Police Force ahead of the forthcoming General elections. The training which began on Friday is on Democratic Policing and Election Security Management, convened by the Police Force in collaboration with Hi-Tech Security Services and Training Limited. Declaring …
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