The Wuse Zone 2 Chief Magistrate’s Court in Abuja on Thursday freed Deji Adeyanju on bail, two days after the political activist was arraigned on a petition filed by Chief of Army Staff Tukur Buratai. The bail terms set by Idayat Akanni, the magistrate, included two level-12 civil servants and N500,000 bond. Ariyo-Dare Atoye, Mr Adeyanju’s friend, told PREMIUM TIMES …
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Nineteen out of the 27 lawmakers of the Imo State House of Assembly have joined Action Alliance, denouncing their memberships of the All Progressives Congress and Peoples Democratic Party respectively. The Speaker of the state House of Assembly, Acho Ihim, who read the notice of defection signed by the lawmakers during plenary on Thursday evening, also announced that he had …
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The House of Representatives has asked the Federal Government to cancel the privatisation of the Ajaokuta Steel Company Limited and revive it with the loot recovered from a former military dictator, the late Gen. Sani Abacha. Also, the lower chamber of the National Assembly asked the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission to investigate and prosecute owners of the privatised company, …
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About 70 per cent of children born in Nigeria are not registered, according to the nation’s National Population Commission (NPopC)’s Drector in Bauchi, Mallam Musa Rashid. Rashid made the disclosure on Thursday at an on-going sensitization workshop on Birth Registration in Bauchi. The director explained that only 30 per cent of pregnant women visited health centers to deliver of their …
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President Muhammadu Buhari will on Friday preside over a `Special’ Federal Executive Council meeting to deliberate solely on 2019 draft budget proposal. Femi Adesina, the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, revealed this when he briefed State House correspondents at the end of the Council’s meeting. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the FEC meeting …
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The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Adams Oshiomhole, has said with the popularity of the APC in Imo and Ogun States, the party would win the 2019 elections despite the alleged anti-party activities of their governors. He described the governors as poor students of their own history who had forgotten they lost elections before winning on the platform …
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President, Academic Staff Union of Universities, Professor Biodun Ogunyemi, has charged striking lecturers in public universities to brace up for a long strike. Ogunyemi enjoined ASUU members “to be on the watch and prepare for a long drawn out struggle to salvage the University System”. ASUU had embarked on a nationwide strike over unfulfilled past agreements by government and underfunding …
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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC has arrested nine Internet fraudsters popularly known as Yahoo-Yahoo boys, in Abuja, Nigeria. The suspects were arrested by the Advance Fee Fraud Section of the Commission on November 30, 2018 through an intelligence report received on the fraudulent activities of the suspected fraudsters residing somewhere along Airport Road, as they were obviously living …
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Lagos State Police, Zone 2 Command, on Tuesday said it arrested a cemetery attendant and four others for being in possession of a human skull. Lawal Shehu, Assistant Inspector-General of Police in charge of Lagos and Ogun states, told journalists that the suspects were arrested with dried human jaw and dried human scalp on Monday. “On December 3, 2018, at …
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Protesting National Assembly workers have told the leadership of the chambers that they would not allow the legislators to sit unless they were paid the salaries they were being owed. They said they would only allow the lawmakers inside the chambers when they receive notifications from their individual banks that the money being owed them has been paid. They said …
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