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The Federal Government is set to begin the full implementation of the National Counter Terrorism Strategy NACTEST as part of measures to enhance its onslaught against insurgency. Deputy Director, Counter Terrorism Centre in the Office of the National Security Adviser ONSA, Ahmad Mohammed Gusau disclosed this Wednesday in Abuja at a stakeholders workshop on the implementation of NACTEST. Developed in …

The Federal High Court in Abuja, on Wednesday, declined to hear fundamental rights enforcement suit the erstwhile Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Appropriation, Jibrin Abdulmumin, lodge before it. Jibrin had approached the court, begging it to shield him from being arrested or interrogated over his allegation that Speaker of the House, Yakubu Dogara and three other lawmakers, …

The People Democratic Party has extended the tenure of the Senator Ahmed Makarfi-led Caretaker Committee of the party by one year. Delegates of the party, who gathered at the Rivers State PDP Secretariat on Wednesday, took the decision as a result of the seal-off of the Sharks Stadium, Port Harcourt; venue of the party’s botched National Convention. The extension of …

Celebrating his 75th birthday in Minna, the capital of Niger State, yesterday, former military president, Gen. Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida, protested an age-long derisive appellation, saying he was not the evil that people ascribe to him. Interestingly, President Muhammadu Buhari, who Babangida pushed out of power in 1985, paid him glowing tributes yesterday “There is hardly any major episode in Nigeria’s …

Factional National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Senator ‎Ali Modu Sheriff, has said that he will send a petition to the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Mahmoud Mohammed and the National Judicial Council against some judges of the Federal High Court in the country. He alleged that some of the judges had demonstrated what he described as unethical behaviour. He …

Justice Okon Abang of a Federal High Court in Abuja on Tuesday re-affirmed his Monday’s interim order stopping the Peoples Docratic Party from going ahead with its plan to conduct its national convention slated for Wednesday. The judge on Tuesday turned the interim order into an interlocutory injunction that will subsist till the time the substantive suit is heard and …

In 2011, the CBN wrote to the Office of the Accountant General of the Federation (OAGF) that the Treasury Single Account (TSA) project was not feasible for at least another two years. Remita got it working by deploying it services and by 2015, SystemSpecs successfully integrated 900 MDAs who now use Remita to pay and receive payment from all over …

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo said, yesterday, that he was persuaded to take over as Head of State, shortly after General Murtala Ramat Muhammed was killed in the 1976 coup. The then Head of State, Gen Muhammed, along with his aide-de-camp, ADC (Lt. Akinsehinwa), orderly and driver were assassinated on February 13, 1976 while on his way to work in a …

Embattled former Chairman, House of Representatives Committee on Appropriation, Abdulmunin Jibrin, yesterday, wrote to the ruling party, the All Progressives Congress, APC, to explain why he levelled allegations against Speaker Yakubu Dogara. Jibrin chronicled all his allegations in the letter and the way forward where he insisted the speaker must step aside for investigations to commence. The letter read in …

Chairman of Federal Civil Service Commission, FCSC, Deaconness Joan Ayo, has discovered some irregular/unauthorized appointments in the civil service. Deaconess Ayo, who disclosed this in Abuja yesterday, said the appointments in question, uncovered by the on-going staff auditing at the FCSC, were null and void. She explained that staff auditing was aimed at fishing out irregular/unauthorized appointees and de-listing them …