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The Senate on Thursday decried spate of violence in the country and urged the Federal Government to deploy security agencies to Kogi to forestall alleged killing of people by suspected herdsmen. Specifically, the upper chamber said that the security machinery should be sent to Omale and Dekina Local Government Areas in the state. The resolution followed the adoption of a …

Federal Government has announced that plans to evacuate stranded 2,000 megawatts were in top gear as an agreement on the tariffs that will be paid by eligible customer will soon be reached. Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, who disclosed this at the just concluded 25th Power Sector meeting in Uyo, said the efforts had been so …

Senate resolved Thursday to write the Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Walter Onnoghen to caution his judges and ask them to respect the principle of separation of powers. According to the Senate, Onnogen must caution his judicial officers of the need to defend the institutions and democracy. The resolution of the Senate was sequel to a point of Order raised …

The Igbo socio-cultural organisations, Ohanaeze Ndigbo warned Biafra agitators on Thursday that their dream would not be achieved by fighting, noise making, name calling and insults. The President-General of Ohanaeze, Chief John Nwodo, stated this at a lecture organised by the Student Affairs Department of the University of Nigeria (UNN), College of Medicine, Ituku-Ozalla, Enugu. According to him, Biafra can …

Justice Gabriel Kolawole of the Federal High Court in Abuja has lambasted the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for its display of gross misconduct in the prosecution of an alleged N3.1 billion corruption case by the anti-graft agency. The judge who accused the EFCC of frustrating proceedings in the trial and attempting to take over control of his court …

A bus assigned to the Press Unit of the Edo State Government House was involved in an accident on its way from an official assignment on Wednesday, March 14, 2018. A number of people in the bus and three other vehicles that were involved in the accident, including a medical doctor and a mother and child, sustained varied degrees of …

Great Benin King, Oba Ewuare II’s stern actions against human trafficking, including placing curses on perpetrators of the illicit trade continue to draw support from Edo people and groups in Nigeria and around the globe. Recently, Edo Gobal Organization, a frontline pan-Edo cultural group, with members spread across various countries of the world joined the increasing number of people and …

Strong indications emerged yesterday that another crisis may be looming between the Presidency and the legislative arm of government, as President Muhammadu Buhari has written the Senate, declining assent to the new amendment to the Electoral Act, which seeks to re-order the sequence of polls during 2019 general elections. President Buhari President Buhari in a letter to the Senate, read …

President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday summoned the Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, to the Presidential Villa, Abuja. Buhari seized the opportunity of the encounter to query Idris for flouting his directive that he should relocate to Benue State following the killings recorded in the state. The meeting was said to have lasted about 30 minutes after which Idris left the …

Nigeria’s president, in a visit to the country’s troubled northeast, on Monday predicted success in what he described as relentless efforts to release more than 200 schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram. The jihadists are still holding 112 of the 219 students they abducted from the Borno state town of Chibok in April 2014, and also 110 pupils taken from Dapchi, …