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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 …

By Ola Airenakho Benin City – As Edo people prepare for the poll to elect a new governor, the Sultan of Sokoto, His Eminence, Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar III, has urged all gubernatorial candidates to carry out their campaigns in peace and harmony. The Royal father and spiritual leader made the appeal while speaking during a visit to Governor Adams Oshiomhole …

Federal Road Safety Corps, FRSC, said enforcement of the speed limiters on commercial vehicles operating in the country would commence nationwide on October 1, 2016. FRSC’s Corps Marshal, Dr Boboye Oyeyemi, who spoke during a meeting with stakeholders from relevant government agencies and road transport unions at the FRSC national headquarters in Abuja, said the enforcement would be total and …

The Borno Government said it received a cash donation of one million U.S. dollars from the Bill Gates Foundation for victims of Boko Haram insurgency in the state. Gov. Kashim Shettima announced this on Sunday in Mainok, Kaga Local Government Area, while distributing food items and farm inputs purchased by the government. “We are gathered here today to commence distribution …

Meanwhile, as more Nigerians complained of hardship, the Federal Government has continued to blame past administrations for the current economic crisis that has left many families struggling to feed and to survive. The Minister of Information, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, who spoke at the just concluded 2016 edition of the All Nigeria Editors Conference in Port Harcourt said that Nigerians are …

The man championing the campaign to unseat Speaker Yakubu Dogara for alleged padding of the budget, Abdulmumin Jibrin, has himself gone to court to stop the police from arresting or questioning him over allegations bordering on claims of his complicity in the matter. Besides that Saturday Vanguard has also obtained court papers in which Jibrin is also seeking judicial relief …