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A bill for a law to establish the Edo State Control of Nomadic Cattle Rearing/Grazing Law and for other purposes yesterday suffered a major setback following its rejection by the state government and the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), The bill was also rejected by Edo State chapter of the Nigeria Bar Association (NBA) and other stakeholders in the state. …

Lagos State Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode, yesterday disclosed that intelligence report revealed that some local chiefs were working with kidnappers to abduct residents in remote areas of the state. Ambode also lamented the recent cases of killings perpetrated by a faceless dreaded cult, Badoo, though promised that his administration would flush out every member of the cult from Lagos and its …

There are fears that scores of Nigerians have been killed, and over one thousand of them forcibly evicted from Abana the headquarters of Bakassi peninsula which is under the sovereignty of Cameroun. Some of the affected people who said most of the adults have fled Abana to Cross River State, and Akwa Ibom, lamented that the Camerounian gendarmes, aside from …

The Acting President, Yemi Osinbajo has said that as long as he remains the Acting President and President Muhammadu Buhari’s mandate as president subsists, Ibrahim Magu will continue in office as the chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. He made the declaration in Kaduna at the commissioning of the Zonal office of the EFCC. According to Professor Osinbajo, …

By Alltimepost.com The Nigerian Observer, property of Edo State Government and one of the spectacular legacies of two-time governor of the defunct Bendel State, now Edo, late Dr. Samuel Osaigbovo Ogbemudia may be sold any time soon, according to information reaching Alltimepost.com. At the same time, while the Obaseki administration plans to privatize the company, it is committed to reinvesting …

Edo State Command of the Nigeria Immigration Service(NIS) on Tuesday, announced that it has arrested and repatriated no fewer than 450 illegal immigrants from Edo in the first quarter of the year. The Comptroller of NIS, Edo command, Mr David Adi, made the disclosure at the presentation of a refurbished Hilus van by management of Okomu oil Palm Company PLC. …

Acting President Yemi Osinbajo has assented to Nigerians in Diaspora Commission Establishment Bill 2017. He also signed the Petroleum Training Institute Amendment Act 2017. Sen. Ita Enang, Senior Special Assistant to the President on National Assembly Matters (Senate), said in a statement in Abuja on Monday that the acting president assented to the Bills on Friday. He explained that the …

The House of Representatives’ Ad-hoc Committee has resolved to invite ex-President Goodluck Jonathan over the alleged diversion of $1 billion. The committee is investigating the alleged corruption, malpractices, breach of due process in the award of Oil Prospecting Licence (OPL) 245, Rep. Rasak Atunwa, Chairman of the committee disclosed this while interacting with journalists on Wednesday in Abuja on the …

Indications of any detente between the Senate and the executive arm of government may have been thwarted, when the latter on Tuesday restated its advisory to the presidency on removal the Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mr. Ibrahim Magu, or risk the non-consideration of any executive nominations. The lawmakers took the decision following an executive …

Primary school teachers in some parts of the country Tuesday expressed preference for the state government to run and manage their affairs instead of leaving them at the mercies of the local government administrators as being proposed. In Akwa Ibom State, they called on the National Assembly to exclude funding and management of primary education in its ongoing move to …