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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 …

The Federal High Court in Abuja on Wednesday awarded damages of over N5.5billion against the Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) and the Chairman of its Board over the unlawful seizure of 90 containers of rice imported by a firm, Maggpiy Trading TFZE. Maggpiy, in its suit marked FHC/CA/CS/40/2017, stated that officials of the NCS invaded and sealed up its warehouse in …

By Igbotako Nowinta, Alltimepost.com Nigerian Bureau Chief Disengaged workers of Integrated  Data Services Limited (IDSL), a subsidiary of Nigeria National Petroleum  Corporation (NNPC), who alleged they were unlawfully laid off with a paltry sum of N 100,000 each on June 30, 2004, have cried out for justice to be served in their case. The disillusioned Nigerians are calling on President  …

A senator, Elisha Abbo, caught on camera assaulting a woman, has appeared before a Senate committee set up to investigate the incident. Mr Abbo appeared before the Senate ad-hoc committee on Tuesday afternoon. The Adamawa senator, however, refused to take an oath before the panel. He also refused to speak in the presence of journalists. Persons invited before Senate committees …

The House of Representatives has set up a 13-member ad-hoc committee to investigate the crisis in the Edo State House of Assembly. The state assembly has been embroiled in controversies over the ‘inauguration’ and the ‘election’ of a new speaker. This development has also lent credence to the reports of a rift between the APC National Chairman, Adams Oshiomhole, and …

Salisu Maijigiri, the chairman,  Katsina state Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Tuesday, told the election petition tribunal that his party’s presidential candidate in the February 23rd, presidential election, Atiku Abubakar, won President Muhammadu Buhari in Katsina state. He said, while President Buhari polled “872,000, his party, the PDP scored, 905,000. According to him, “We (PDP) are the one who won the …

Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, has said the state government is collaborating with the Benin Monarch, Omo N’Oba N’Edo Uku Akpolokpolo, Oba Ewuare II, and other stakeholders to build a world-class royal museum to hold stolen artefacts from the Benin Kingdom. The Museum, he noted, will conserve the artefacts and make the state a destination of choice for tourists from across the globe. Obaseki disclosed …

…Edo gov. says autobiography will enrich body of knowledge Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, Senate President, Ahmed Lawan, House of Representatives Speaker, Femi Gbajabiamila and Edo State Governor, Mr Godwin Obaseki, on Monday took turns to congratulate the former Governor of Ogun State, Chief Segun Osoba, who clocks 80 years next Monday. In his separate congratulatory message, Obaseki said: “On behalf …