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The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, says a nation-wide campaign against indiscipline, African-time syndrome and loss of social norms and values will begin before the end of the year. Mohammed stated this on Tuesday at a strategic planning meeting he held with the chief executives of agencies and other top management staff of the ministry in Abuja. “You …

President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday charged the judiciary to do its best possible to fight against real and perceived corrupt practices within the judicial system. The President gave the charge in Abuja while opening the 2015 All Nigerian Judges’ Conference with the theme: `The Judiciary as a Veritable Instrument for Sustaining Democracy in Nigeria’. Represented by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, …

Prince Abubakar Audu, the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC in the just concluded Kogi state election which the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, declared inconclusive is feared dead. INEC returning officer for the election, Prof. Emmanuel Kucha of Federal University of Agriculture, Makurdi, said no party could be declared the winner yet since the numbers of cancelled …

State governors under the aegis of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum have said that they can no longer pay the N18,000 minimum wage. According to them, the minimum wage was imposed on them when oil sold for $126 as against the present price of $41 per barrel. This was one of the outcomes of the forum’s meeting held on Wednesday evening …

ABUJA – Senate of the Federal Republic yesterday, summoned the Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Solomon Arase, to appear before them over increased cases of kidnapping and act of hostages in the country. The IGP is to brief its relevant committees on activities of the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) that are targeted at resolving the security challenges posed by kidnapping. Apart …

ABUJA — FORMER National Security Adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki, retd, whose arrest was ordered by President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday over allegations of fictitious award of arms supply contracts, yesterday, countered the Federal Government. He alleged a deliberate campaign to rubbish him by the present administration. President Buhari ordered Dasuki’s arrest after receiving an interim report of the panel set …

THE Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Mahmud Mohammed, is set to set up a fresh panel that will hear the appeal filed by Senate President Bukola Saraki, challenging the jurisdiction and competence of the charges by the Code of Conduct Tribunal over alleged false asset declaration preferred against him. Our correspondent learnt on Wednesday that the CJNwas set to disband …

There were indications on Wednesday that security agencies, including the police, were concluding arrangements to invite some former service chiefs, who were said to have been indicted by a committee, set up by President Muhammdu Buhari to probe arms procurement during the last administration. Investigations showed that indicted service chiefs would be charged, while those who were not affected by …

The Federal Government has banned the importation of small generators popularly called ‘I pass my neighbour,’ used by low-income Nigerians. Controller, Federation Operations Unit Zone A, Lagos of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Mr Madugu Sanni Jubrin, disclosed this in Lagos while speaking with newsmen. Sanni also said that the command seized 4,733 goods worth N52 million and arrested some …

Pump price of petrol has continued to increase in towns across the country as scarcity of the product persists on Wednesday, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports. A survey by NAN in major cities across the country shows that long queues have characterised the few fuel stations that are selling the product, while others remained closed. Some residents in …