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The Civil Defence, Correctional, Fire and Immigration Services Board CDCFIB has approved the suspension of three officers and six other ranks of the Nigerian Correctional Service implicated in the alleged internet fraud, suspected to have been perpetrated by Hope Olusegun Aroke, an inmate serving a term of imprisonment in Kirikiri Maximum Security Custodial Centre, Lagos.  Spokesman of the Service, Controller …

Three men in Baltimore, United States, who spent 36 years in prison were found innocent on Monday, November 25, of the 1983 murder of a teenage boy who was shot dead over a jacket. Alfred Chestnut, Andrew Stewart and Ransom Watkins were serving life sentences for the shooting of DeWitt Duckett, a 14-year-old student at Harlem Park Junior High School …

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has said there is no going back on its stand concerning it’s refusal to be included in the Federal Government’s Intergrated Payroll and Personnel Information System. Biodun Ogunyemi, National President of the union, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Wednesday in Lagos that there is nowhere in the world where such a development …

Dozens of protesters on Wednesday marched to the National Assembly gate to ask the Senate to drop the bill to regulate the social media in Nigeria. The two senators who addressed the protesters pledged that despite the bill being sponsored by their colleague, the Senate would do the bidding of Nigerians. The protest started around 9:25 a.m. Wednesday. Two groups, …

•ASUU members shun FG order, CONUA complies There were indications on Tuesday that any federal university lecturers that failed to register for the Integrated Payment and Personnel Information System might forfeit their December salary. The PUNCH gathered that officials at the Accountant General of the Federation Office had arrived at some universities and begun the enrolment of workers in the institutions …

…Reveals Edo’s community policing model Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, has reiterated the call for the restructuring of the Nigeria Police Force, to make room for community-driven policing, urging for better funding for security to secure the lives and property of Nigerians. The governor, who said this at the South South Nigeria Police Force Regional Security Summit 2019 themed, Strategic …

…Tasks Law Reforms Commission to compile new Edo laws within 12 months Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, on Tuesday inaugurated the Law Reforms and Local Government Service Commissions, charging members of both bodies  to support his administration’s zero-tolerance for corruption. Obaseki, who noted that institutional reform is pivotal in the agenda of his administration, urged the newly inaugurated commissions …

Comrade Festus Alenkhe has been re-elected Chairman of the Nigerian Red Cross Socifestusety, Edo State branch.  The election which saw 13 positions occupied was conducted at the end of the 2019 annual general meeting (AGM) of the branch, with the National President of the Nigerian Red Cross Society, Elder Chief Bolaji Anani Akpan in attendance. Speaking with newsmen after the …

The Senate President, Dr Ahmad Lawan, has disclosed that the 2020 budget proposal of the federal government will be passed next week. Lawan, who spoke at plenary on Tuesday, said the budget estimate, which would have been passed this week by the upper chamber, will be passed before the end of next week. He emphasised that the Senate will by …

The Senate on Tuesday canvassed for the upgrading of Ibadan airport to international standard like those in Lagos, Port Harcourt and Abuja. It also tasked the federal government on the need to complete the abandoned multi-million naira Ajaokuta-Oturkpo railway project. The upper legislative chamber at plenary urged the Federal Ministry of Aviation and other relevant authorities to upgrade the Ibadan …