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…Governor Okpebholo, EDHA lack power to suspend council chairmen, says PDP By Idahosa Musa Edo State House of Assembly on Tuesday passed a resolution, suspending chairmen and vice chairmen of the 18 local government councils of the state for two months following a petition by Governor Monday Okpebholo over alleged refusal of the council Chiefs to submit financial records.  The …

The Edo State government on Tuesday approved the dissolution of all commissions in the state public service. Secretary to the state government, Umar Ikhilor, who stated in a statement on Tuesday, urged all Chairmen and members of the commissions to handover all government properties in their possession to the most senior Public Officer in their Commission. The statement reads, “It …

The presentation of the N47.9 trillion 2025 budget by President Bola Tinubu, initially scheduled for Tuesday, December 17, 2024, has been postponed to Wednesday, December 18, 2024. Sources within the Senate revealed that the shift was confirmed by a top management staff of the National Assembly. An official statement regarding the postponement is expected to be issued in the coming …

“Finally, it is over,” Jean Mensa, the chairperson of the Electoral Commission (EC), said as she declared John Mahama, the candidate of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), the president-elect of Ghana. That moment, captured by dozens of cameras, resulted from a political compromise following the failure of the election result management system. The election adds to Ghana’s credentials as one of …

….orders plaintiff to pay N5m fine The Supreme Court, on Monday, dismissed a suit seeking to sack President Bola Tinubu from office. The apex court, in a unanimous decision by a five-member panel of justices, awarded a fine of N5 million against the plaintiff, Chief Ambrose Owuru, who was the presidential candidate of the Hope Democratic Party, HDP, in the …

What we know about Kirillov’s death so far Ukraine has claimed responsibility for killing Lt. Gen. Igor Kirillov, the man who headed Russia’s nuclear, biological and chemical protections forces, in Moscow on Tuesday morning. Kirillov routinely made unfounded claims about Ukraine’s alleged use of chemical weapons Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov, chief of Russia’s Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Protection Troops, attends …

* Cease to be members from January 29, 2025 *Tinubu urges member-states to learn from Ghana’s recent election *Lists his achievements as chair of regional body * Nigeria pays N85bn, $54m as levies  The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has formally approved the withdrawal of Niger, Mali, and Burkina Faso from the regional body. The approval came a few days after President Bola Tinubu promised German …

The Federation Accounts Allocation Committee disbursed a total of N2.08tn in allocations to Local Government Councils between July and December 2024, findings by The PUNCH have shown. However, despite the July 2024 Supreme Court ruling granting full financial autonomy to Nigeria’s 774 Local Government Areas, The PUNCH learnt that the allocations were still paid to state government accounts. This, it …

Elderstatesman and foremost Niger Delta Leader, Chief Edwin Clark, yesterday, lamented the deplorable state of major federal roads in the South-South geopolitical zone,and pleaded with President Bola Tinubu to declare a state of emergency on them in the 2025 national Budget. Clark, who made the appeal in an open letter to Tinubu in Abuja, wrote: “As leader of the people …

CNN — In the early years of Xi Jinping’s war on corruption, the Chinese leader consolidated control over the world’s largest military by taking down powerful generals from rival factions and replacing them with allies and proteges loyal to himself. A decade on, having given the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) a structural overhaul and stacked its top ranks with his own men, …