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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 …

The National Assembly has increased the size of the 2017 budget proposed by the executive by N143 billion, from N7.298 trillion to N7.441 trillion. This is as the Senate and House of Representatives laid the harmonised report of the 2017 Appropriation Bill at their respective plenary sessions on Tuesday. The lawmakers increased statutory transfers to N434.4 billion from N419.02 billion, …

A former Vice President, Dr. Alex Ekwueme, on Wednesday, received the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, at his Enugu residence. Kanu explained that he visited Ekwueme in order to inform the elder statesman of the activities of IPOB, and his reasons for championing the agitation for Biafra. The IPOB leader described the former Vice President as …

By Alltimepost.com Benin City, Nigeria – Five years after the gruesome murder of Comrade Olaitan Oyerinde in Benin City, the hope of finding his killers remain strong, as the Chief of Staff to Edo State Government, Comrade Taiwo Akerele said last week that the murderers would be fished out someday. Comrade Akerele was speaking to human rights activists and other …

The Chairman, Senate Ad hoc Committee on Humanitarian Issues in the North-East, Senator Shehu Sani, has said Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo, who is now the acting President, can determine the fate of the suspended Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babachir Lawal. Sani said this during a breakfast television show, Sunrise Daily on Channels Television on Tuesday. Sani’s panel, which …

Oba Ewuare II, the Oba of Benin, has appealed to the British Government to return the artifacts carted away from the kingdom by the British during the Benin invasion of 1897, saying that the artifacts belong to the Benin Museum. He also expressed his readiness to partner the British Embassy to fight human trafficking in Edo State and Nigeria as …

The letter, written by President Muhammadu Buhari to the National Assembly, to inform the lawmakers of his medical leave and to transmit power to his deputy, is generating controversy. Buhari had stated that Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo would coordinate the affairs of the nation while he was away instead of writing that Osinbajo would act as the President. Senate President Bukola …