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The Speaker of the Kano State House of Assembly, Alhassan Rirum, has said that the investigation of the Emir of Kano, Mohammed Sanusi, by the House was not connected to a similar exercise being undertaken by an agency of the executive arm of the state government. The Kano Public Complaints and Anti-corruption Commission had earlier last week announced that it …

The National Assembly has passed the 2017 Appropriations Bill, raising the budget from N7.28 billion earlier proposed by President Muhammadu Buhari in December last year, to N7.44 trillion. The Appropriations Committees of the Senate and the House of Representatives separately presented their harmonised reports of the budget for consideration and subsequent passage on Thursday. According to the report, N434.4 billion …

Speaker of the Delta State House of Assembly, Rt Hon Monday Igbuya has been impeached and Hon Sherriff Oborevwori has been elected in his stead. Twenty-two out of the 29 members signed the impeachment notice, accused Igbuya of incompetence and high handedness. The new Speaker, Rt Hon Sherriff Oborevwori, who represents Okpe constituency in the House, is an experienced politician …

The High Court of the Federal Capital Territory sitting in the Gudu District, Abuja yesterday, May 10, 2017) turned down an attempt by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, to stall the bail application of the former minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Senator Bala Mohammed. Talba remanded him in prison, pending ruling on the bail application tomorrow. That …

The Chief of Army Staff, Lt. General Tukur Buratai, has effected a major shake-up in the Nigerian Army High Command, with the appointment of Major-General Lucky Irabor as the new Commander, Multi-National Joint Task Force. General Irabor, who was Commander of Operation Lafiya Dole that led troops along with General Officers Commanding of 7 Divisions, 8 Task Force Division to …

Kano State House of Assembly, yesterday, constituted an eight-man committee to investigate allegations levelled against the Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi II. This came on a day Arewa Consultative Forum, ACF, called on the Emir and Kano State government to respect the decisions taken by the Northern Governors Forum to resolve the crisis between them. Speaker of the 40-man Assembly, …

The Bill for an Act to amend the Pension Reform Act to provide for definite percentage a retiree can withdraw from his Retirement Savings Account passed second reading at the Senate on Wednesday. The Bill is sponsored by Sen. Aliyu Wamakko (APC-Sokoto) Leading debate on the bill, Wamakko said that the bill was meant to ameliorate the sufferings of retirees …

former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Bala Mohammed, who was accused of fraud was on Wednesday remanded in the Kuje Maximum Prison. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission arraigned the former minister on six counts of alleged abuse of office while serving as the FCT minister. (Punch)

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Wednesday arraigned a former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Bala A. Mohammed, before Justice A. M. Talba of the Federal Capital Territory High Court sitting in Gudu, Abuja, on a six-count charge bordering on abuse of office, false declaration of assets and fraud to the tune of N864 million. EFCC Head …

Former Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, Andrew Yakubu, on Wednesday lost his bid to retrieved the sum of $9.8m and £74,000, forfeited to the Federal Government at a Federal High Court in Kano. Justice Zainab Abubakar dismissed the application filed by Yakubu seeking to quash an interim order of forfeiture secured by the Economic and …