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…Steps up sensitisation across Benin metropolis Edo State Government has said it will, next week, roll out bulldozers to demolish all illegal structures on moats, right of way and other unauthorized places within the Benin metropolis. The Director of Building Control at the Edo State Ministry of Physical Planning, Housing, Urban and Regional Development, Henry Enabulele disclosed this while addressing …

No fewer than four persons were injured in an attack on supporters of the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, on Saturday in Lagos, the police have said. According to the Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer, Benjamin Hundeyin, investigations into the attack had commenced. Hundeyin, who confirmed that four persons were injured, said the attack was regrettable, …

The Federal Government said plans are in place to implement an improved minimum wage package for civil servants by the second quarter of 2024. The Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, made this announcement at the Nigeria Labour Congress’ 13th National Delegates’ Conference in Abuja.  The former Anambra state governor said necessary provisions had been implemented to make it …

…says channel your attacks on political parties The Supreme Court on Saturday came hard on some Nigerians who had been “venting convoluted anger”, following its recent pronouncements, which affirmed a former Governor of the Akwa Ibom State, Godswill Akpabio, and Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, senatorial candidates of the All Progressives Congress in the February 25 elections. The Apex Court warned …

•3 Northern ruling party govs subtly rebel against presidential candidate over attacks on Presidency, opposition to govt policies The apparent cold war between the Presidency and candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Ahmed Tinubu, which has seen the latter openly attacking the former, has crept into the rank and file of the ruling party’s governors’ forum, barely two weeks …

“I can neither confirm nor refute it,” says an official of the Rivers State Government. The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State says Governor Nyesom Wike is perfecting plans to join the APC through the “backdoor”, despite mocking the party in the past. The APC spokesperson in the state, Darlington Nwauju, stated this in a statement issued in Port Harcourt on Thursday. Mr …

The Central Bank of Nigeria may bow to mounting pressure and contract the printing of the redesigned N1,000, N500 and N200 notes to foreign contractors in the coming days in order to boost the circulation of the currency. Saturday PUNCH gathered that this had become imperative as sources said the Nigerian Security Printing and Minting Plc, which had been responsible for …

Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has criticised the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Iyorcha Ayu for the campaign error he made in Kano State by saying, “PDP has brought us shame.” The governor described Ayu’s slip of the tongue as unpardonable anti-party activity, stressing that the PDP chair wanted to kill the party.  Wike made the accusation …

President Muhammadu Buhari (left); former Head of State, Gen. Abdulsalami Abubakar; former President, Goodluck Jonathan and former Head of State,General Yakubu Gowon at the National Coucil of State meeting at the State House Abuja… yesterday  PHOTO: PHILIP OJISUA • Backs new cash policy • Tasks CBN on aggressive circulation of new currency• Traders reject old notes in Benue, Lagos • …

•Say Commission has derailed, activities now politicised Over 40 anti-corruption Civil Society Organisations gathered in Lagos on Friday to protest what they described as the incessant disobedience of court orders by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission under Abdulrasheed Bawa and the seeming politicisation of the agency’s activities.  The anti-corruption CSOs alleged that the EFCC, under Bawa, had chosen to become …