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The Edo State Government has described as erroneous, insinuations that its response to the Uwelu Auto Spare Parts Market inferno was cliché, stating that the incident is receiving government’s attention. Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki (right) addressing traders at the Benin Auto Spare Parts Market, in Uwelu, during an on-the-spot assessment of the impact of the inferno on the …

FIFA on Friday banned former Nigeria Football Federation official Samson Siasia for life after the body’s ethics panel found him guilty of taking bribes in connection with match fixing. In a statement, the adjudicatory chamber of FIFA’s independent ethics committee said the probe targeting Siasia stemmed from a wider investigation involving Wilson Raj Perumal, who has confessed to international match-fixing. …

Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the last election, Atiku Abubakar, has taken a fresh wipe at President Muhammadu Buhari, saying he should be sacked by the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal for failing to support his claimed proficiency in English language with any educational qualification. In a final written address he filed before the Justice Mohammed Garba-led …

Nigerian university workers have announced a warning strike from Monday, to press the federal government to meet their demands. The one-week strike will last from August 19 to 23. Members-of-the-Joint-Action-Committe-of-SSANU-and-NASU-during-the-press-conference Non-academic staff of universities had earlier planned for a nationwide protest on July 15 ahead of an indefinite strike over the failure of the federal government to implement its agreements with them. …

The leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria, Sheikh Ibraheem Zakzaky, has landed at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, from India,  where his planned medical treatment was aborted. But he was immediately taken into custody by the Department of State Services which whisked him away on arrival at the airport. El-Zakzaky arrived via an Ethiopian airline around 12.05pm and …

As computer and information technology continues to drive business and transport systems all over the world, the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) has introduced a digitalised passengers manifest Scheme (PAMS) It launched the scheme last month in Lagos under a partnership with Blockchain Technology, the platform which the scheme will run on, and Universal Insurance Plc, the official insurer of …

President Muhammadu Buhari has approved a change of name for the Federal University of Agriculture Makurdi in Benue State. The new name for the institution is Joseph Sarwuan Tarka University, Makurdi. The approval follow’s the president’s decision to sign a bill amending the law that set up the university. Mr Buhari also approved a separate bill that changes the name …

President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the suspension of the chairman of the Special Presidential Investigation Panel on the Recovery of Public Property, Okoi Obono-Obla, from office. Mr Obono-Obla’s suspension letter, signed by the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha, directed the embattled official to step down and then proceed to answer questions from the Independent Corrupt Practices and other …

Truckloads of security operatives on Wednesday blocked activists demanding the release of the former presidential candidate of African Action Congress in the last general elections and convener of #RevolutionNow protests, Omowole Sowore. The security personnel comprising soldiers, policemen as well as operatives of the Department of State Services, Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps and Nigerian Prison Service, stormed the …

President Muhammadu Buhari has signed the Nigerian Correctional Service Bill into law. The Act repeals the Nigerian Prisons Service Act. The Senior Special Assistant to the President on National Assembly Matters (Senate), Ita Enang, disclosed this to State House correspondent in Abuja on Wednesday. With the signing, the Nigerian Prisons Service will now be called the Nigerian Correctional Service. PUNCH