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The Federal Government will, on Friday, arraign the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, before the Code of Conduct Tribunal, Abuja, over allegations bordering on false and improper declaration of assets allegedly acquired during his tenure as governor of Kwara State from 2003 to 2011. The 13-count charge against Saraki, Tribune Online gathered, was filed before the tribunal by the Code …

President Muhammadu Buhari said, on Wednesday, in an interview with France 24, that he did not think the country’s currency, the naira, should be devalued again. “I don’t think it is healthy for us to have the naira devalued further. That’s why we are getting the central bank to make modifications in terms of making foreign exchange available to essential …

The Federal Government has so far borrowed N882.122 billion to finance the 2015 budget, Mrs Anastasia Daniel-Nwobia, Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Finance, has said. Daniel-Nwobia made the disclosure, on Tuesday, in Abuja at a public hearing organised by the House of Representatives ad hoc committee on non implementation of capital projects in 2015 Appropriation Act. She was represented at …

The Presidency has ordered Ministries, Departments and Agencies under the jurisdiction of the Federal Government to compile the names of all public service employees who are being owed arrears (salaries and allowances) within seven days so that they can be paid without further delay. The directive was contained in a Circular with reference number HCSF/428/S.1/128 dated September 14, 2015, from …

The All Progressives Congress has denied reports in a section of the media that Haj. Maitalle Tara Koko, the 92-year-old woman who is an ardent Muhammadu Buhari supporter, has been abandoned, saying the woman is being well catered for. In a statement issued in Lagos on Tuesday by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party said the wife …

ABUJA — Despite resistance from Nigerians, the Federal Government, yesterday, insisted that the proposed increase in electricity tariffs would commence from October. Speaking at the Powering Africa Nigeria conference in Abuja, Mr. Godknows Igali, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Power, further stated that Federal Government is committed to improving the fortunes of the power sector and also provide an enabling environment …

A former National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, has announced his retirement from politics. He stated this in his address, in Abuja on Tuesday, at a lecture organised to mark his 80th birthday. Tukur said he had done his best for the former ruling party and that it was time for him to retire from partisan …

Paris: President Muhammadu Buhari Tuesday in Paris, France, told the French business community and investors that there was more to Nigeria that just oil exploration. President Buhari stated that the country was greatly blessed with lands rich in agricultural and mineral resources coupled with skilled and low-cost labour, large market, robust and competitive private sector, stressing that the areas remained …

The Dean, Faculty of Sciences of the Adeleke University, Ede, Prof. Temitope Oyedepo, has said that the university has discovered that the mixture of omi ogi and lemon has a great potency to cure liver problems. Omi ogi is the fermented water on the paste-like substance derived from blended maize. Oyedepo said this in an interview with our correspondent in …

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has reopened investigations into the Nigerian Immigration Service recruitment tragedy in 2014, which led to the death of 19 young job seekers, This was disclosed Monday. Operatives of the anti-graft agency on Monday quizzed the immediate past Comptroller General of the NIS, Mr. David Paradang, for over seven hours. Paradang was asked questions about …