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No fewer than 400 buildings have been wrecked, while thousands of residents are rendered homeless, after a windstorm ravaged some streets in Papa Ashafa/Dopemu in the Orile-Agege area of Lagos State. The incident was said to have happened around 4.30pm on Monday. It was gathered that cars parked on the roads were damaged as concrete electric poles fell on them …

ABUJA—The Senate Joint Committee on the Petroleum Industry Bill, PIB, yesterday, disclosed that it has finished working on the Bill and is proposing the privatisation of Nigeria’s four refineries two years after the passage of the Bill. Just as the lower chamber, the House of Representatives, proposes the complete deregulation of the nation’s downstream sector, not exceeding six years after …

If the abducted Chibok girls are rescued from the Boko Haram den, former Minister for Education and #BringBackOurGirls front liner, Dr. Oby Ezekwesili, would display her dancing skills, she said on Monday. Some heavily armed men stormed Government Girls’ College, Chibok in Borno State, 328 days ago, and whisked away over 200 girls to Sambisa forest. Since then, several calls …

Benin, Edo Nigeria – By Ola Airenakho Royal Father and the Enogie of Oghobase in the Edo South Senatorial District, His Royal Highness, Prince Idu Akenzua has pledged support to Governor Adams Oshiomhole in ensuring victory for his ruling All Progressives Congress, in the forthcoming elections in the state. The Enogie (Duke) Akenzua who said his decision was based on …

Some of Nigeria’s top lawyers were yesterday divided over the move by the All Progressives Congress, APC to have Mrs. Patience Jonathan, wife of President Goodluck Jonathan prosecuted by the International Criminal Court over alleged hate speech. The move which was derided by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP was, however, thumbed up by a number of Nigeria’s prominent political actors …

MAIDUGURI—Almost one year after more than 200 secondary schoolgirls were abducted from their school in Chibok, Borno state by Boko Haram terrorists and their school set ablaze, members of the community and some of the distraught parents yesterday rejected attempt by the Federal Government to rebuild the burnt school insisting that all they wanted was to have their children back …

ABUJA— The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, yesterday endorsed last weekend’s trial run on the card readers and resolved to use the device for the forthcoming general elections. The INEC stance nonetheless, Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, governors were last night locked in a meeting in Lagos where they were articulating strong objections to the use of the device. The PDP …

Electoral offences are arguably the most widespread infractions of the law in this season. However, few are ever punished in Nigeria. The most notable are offences leading to the election including violations of campaign expenses and the use of government facilities for campaign. prison-cartoonIndeed, it is even more remarkable that because of the system in Nigeria that a number of …

ABUJA – The CBN has assured that Nigerian banks are safe, following the outcome of a stress test it conducted. This is contained in a statement signed by the Director of Corporate Communications of the CBN, Alhaji Ibrahim Mu’azu, on Sunday in Abuja. “Following the recent top-down stress tests of Deposit Money Banks carried out; the CBN re-affirms that the …

The test run of the Card Reader Machines proposed for the forthcoming general elections, carried out in 12 states, yesterday, exposed the flaws in the new voting technology introduced by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). Significantly, the machines failed to recognise Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) in some states. In many other states, the machines’ batteries went down after barely …