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The embattled Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, yesterday, adduced reasons the 13-count criminal charge the Federal Government preferred against him before the Code of Conduct Tribunal, CCT, in Abuja, should be quashed. Saraki, who was alleged to have falsified the assets he declared while in office as the Governor of Kwara State from 2003 to 2011, insisted that the allegations …

The Registrar and Chief Executive of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, Professor ‘Dibu Ojerinde, has faulted calls for cancellation of the Computer-Based Test (CBT) mode of the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME), saying this will not be in the interest of the candidates, parents and government. He said the protest in Lagos, a few days ago allegedly by UTME …

President Barack Obama intends to nominate the first female combatant commander in the military’s history, Secretary of Defense Ash Carter said Friday. Carter announced that he had recommended Air Force Gen. Lori Robinson to be appointed to lead U.S. Northern Command while speaking at a breakfast hosted by Politico. He described Robinson as having “very deep operational experience,” “very good …

Donald Trump pilloried Mitt Romney on his home turf on Friday, making his best appeal to the state’s majority Mormon population and questioning whether Romney truly represented their faith. The rally in Salt Lake City, coming one week after clashes between supporters and protesters forced Trump to cancel a Chicago event, was also marked by a couple hundred protesters outside …

With a goal to properly rehabilitate prisoners in Lagos State, a group, Prison Fellowship Nigeria (PFN) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Lagos State Ministry of Justice. According to the Executive Director of the group, Benson Ngoziwu Agwu, who stated this yesterday at a Media/Dinner held in Ikeja, the agreement will allow the group to unveil a pilot programme …

Sequel to the success recorded by his epic movie, “Invasion 1897”, which broke new grounds at the international scene last year, Lancelot Imasuen has landed another big deal as he signs a multi-million naira production contract with a leading online TV platform, Nollytv. This is coming, as the Nigeria Police has commissioned the celebrated film director to produce a TV …

An economic retreat convened by the present administration to offer solutions to the current economic challenges facing Nigeria will hold on Monday and Tuesday next week. The retreat, being put together by the National Economic Council, which has the 36 state governors as members and Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo as chairman, will hold in the Presidential Villa, Abuja. According to a …

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation on Wednesday said it did not fail to remit N3.325tn to the Federation Account but admitted that it owed the government N326.14bn, which was still being reconciled. In a response to the revelation of the Auditor-General of the Federation to the National Assembly on Monday that the NNPC failed to remit the sum of N3.235tn …

Following the intro­duction of Bank Verification Number (BVN) as a prereq­uisite for payment of salary in the Ministry of Finance, a lot of unjustified salaries and ghost pensioners in the Pen­sion Transition Arrangement Directorate (PTAD) as well as inexplicable bogus allow­ances have been unearthed. It was gathered that Nellie Mayshak, PTAD di­rector general allegedly re­ceived N50 million monthly in salary …

The trial of former Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), Air Chief Marshal Alex Badeh began yesterday with revelations of how he diverted N558,200,000 from the account of the Nigerian Air Force monthly throughout the period he served as the Chief of Air Staff. A former director of finance and account of the Nigerian Airforce, Air Commodore Salisu Abdul­lahi Yushua (rtd), …