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The Police Service Commission (PSC) on Sunday commended the Inspector-General of Police, Mr Usman Baba for ordering the arrest of Seun Kuti for attacking a police officer on duty. In a video that has gone viral, the “Afrobeat’’ musician wearing a red shirt atop a white pair of trousers was seen slapping a policeman standing by a police van. While …

Barely  24 hours  a popular Nollywood actor, Saint Obi, meet is untimely death, another popular actor of Yoruba movies, Murphy Afolabi, has died. No details yet about the circumstances surrounding Afolabi’s death, however, a colleague of the deceased in the Yoruba subsector of the Nollywood, Tunde Ola-Yusuf, has confirmed the sad news. Details soon… SUN NEWS

The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) has dissociated itself from what it termed ‘a baseless and unfounded opinion’ currently published on different news platforms, linking the Corps to seeking the introduction of Sharia Law to compliment existing extant regulations on enforcement of traffic rules and prosecution of offenders. The Assistant Corps Marshal, Corps Public Education Officer, Bisi Kazeem, who disclosed …

The Nigerian government says it spends N1 million annually to cater for each inmate at the correctional facilities in the country. Every month, the federal government spends N83.333 per inmate for sundry needs, including feeding. Sola Fasure, the media adviser to the Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, whose office oversees the correctional facilities, made this known in a statement on …

Praises NNPC over additional 35,000 barrels of crude recorded at Bonga The Managing Director (MD) of Shell Nigeria Exploration & Production Company (SNEPCo), Mrs. Elohor Aiboni, has expressed her appreciation to the leadership of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Ltd and the NNPC Upstream Investment Management Services (NUIMS) for the level of collaboration geared towards maximising the potential of …

• CBN mum over alleged corruption in metering, freezing of 157 accounts• Metre companies jostle over fresh World Bank loan for NMMP• NERC may hike metre price by 100%• NASS abandoned bill to criminalise estimated billing Alleged high-level corruption, weak regulation, and the inability of the National Assembly to criminalise arbitrary billing of electricity consumers may continue to widen the metering …

There were concerns at the weekend within the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) that the party could lose control of the National Assembly following subtle threats by aggrieved aspirants for leadership positions in the 10th Assembly to ditch APC. This came to light on a day Sunday Vanguard learnt that some northern and southwestern statesmen, including two former heads of …

By Eben Enasco Relatives of the electrocuted Benin Electricity Distribution Company (BEDC) Staff, who was carrying out Repairs on faulty poles and cables at the University of Benin, Ekewuan Campus, are alleging that the Distribution Company’s negligence resulted in his death. The victim identified as Frank Aigbe Dickson reportedly died after he had contact with an 11kv high-tension cable that …

…Assures partnership with UBTH to transform Edo into hub for medical tourism …Yakubu Gowon hails Obaseki’s investment in health sector Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki has called for a more dynamic and functional model to finance tertiary institutions in the country, particularly health institutions through robust partnerships and collaborations with the private sector. Such a model, he said will …

The Director, Legal Department, Federal Ministry of Information and Culture, Mr. Nelson Orji, has said that the judgement of the Federal High Court, Abuja, which stopped the Nigerian Broadcasting Corporation from imposing fines on erring broadcast stations “is ill-conceived and dead on arrival because of legal encumbrances”. He told the News Agency of Nigeria that a Federal High Court also …