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By Oladipo Airenakho Edo lawmakers have dispelled the wide spread speculations of a planned impeachment of the State House of Assembly Speaker, Honorable Victor Edoror, with the passage, on Wednesday of a vote of confidence on him. The vote came on the heel of recent widespread speculation in the Benin City of a planned removal of the Speaker over allegation …

PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of Mrs. Winifred Ekanem Oyo-Ita as the acting Head of the Civil Service of the Federation. Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Mr Babachir Lawal, who conveyed this in a statement on Wednesday in Abuja, said the appointment was with effect from Wednesday. She replaces Mr Danladi Kifasi, who has already proceeded …

ABUJA—Strong indications emerged, yesterday, that Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, was prepared to bow to the position of All Progressives Congress, APC, by sacrificing his principal officers. SarakiAccording to a source, part of the unwritten agreement to allow peace to reign was to revert to the initial list of the party on the appointment of principal officers. This was part …

ABUJA–President Mohammadu Buhari today (Wednesday) appointed Professor Mahmood Yakubu as the new chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC. Yakubu who is taking over from the Acting Chairman of the Commission, Mrs. Bala Zakari was the former Executive Secretary of the Tertiary Education Trust Fund, TETFUND. The president also appointed other five national commissioners including Zakari. The appointments followed …

By Oladipo Airenakho Self-proclaimed Marxist and leader of a human rights group in Nigeria, known as the Talakawa Parliament, Mr. Kola Edokpayi has accused the Honorable members of Edo State House of Assembly of allowing the legislature to be used as a rubber stamp by the state governor, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole. His outburst is coming in the aftermath of the …

By Oladipo Airenakho Civil Society Organizations, Non Governmental Organizations and the media have been urged to assist in bringing the plights of communities in the Niger Delta to the attention of those directly managing the region’s development institutions. This message was one of the outcomes of a citizen’s report card on Niger Delta Development Agencies, shared at the two-day workshop …

THE Revenue Mobilisation, Allocation and Fiscal Commission has put together a new remuneration package for President Muhammadu Buhari, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, ministers and members of the National Assembly. Our correspondent gathered in Abuja that commissioners at he RMAFC would spend most of next week to debate and ratify the new salaries and allowances for public officers as prepared by …

By Alltimepost.com Edo State Governor, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole has stressed the need for Nigeria to return to its strict tax policy which was applicable before the oil boom of the seventies as a way of getting out of the current economic crisis caused by a crash in the price of crude oil. The Governor who said nobody was above taxation …

In a wide-ranging and exclusive interview with Al Jazeera English’s flagship current affairs show,‘UpFront’, Nigerian president Muhammadu Buhari pledged to defeat Boko Haram by December but also acknowledged he would be willing to negotiate with the group to secure the release of the kidnapped Chibok schoolgirls. “They have to prove to us that they are alive, they are well, and …

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), on Friday, arrested the immediate past governor of Akwa Ibom State, Godswill Akpabio, for interrogation over alleged massive corruption during his leadership of the state. A commission source told Tribune Online that Akpabio was arrested on Friday afternoon and was still under interrogation at the official closing hour. There was, however, according to …