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• $3.1b e-Customs project gets new concessionaire amid court injunction• Customs gets N3.4b approval for new aircraft• Council okays N15b for e-NSITF infrastructure upgrade• NASS orders Sirika to stop demolition of aviation agencies’ offices in Lagos With less than 40 days to go, the Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting presided over by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, yesterday, approved a number …

The governor of Benue State, Samuel Ortom, has replied the presidency on the security situation in the state, insisting that President Muhammadu Buhari endorsed the intractable killings of persons there. He also accused the president of starving the state of funds and manipulating the recent elections in the state to favour his party, the All Progressives Congress (APC). Mr Ortom, a …

A University of Calabar lecturer, Prof Bassey Okon, has stated that a conscious approach at implementing a national indigenous languages policy would help drive the nation’s corporate existence. Prof Bassey Okon Okon is a scholar of Linguistics and Nigerian Languages in the department of linguistics and communication studies, University of Calabar, (UNICAL) Speaking at the University of Calabar 115th Inaugural …

By Eben Enasco From the late 70s through the 80s/90s, the Institute of Continuing Education (ICE), was a remedial study institute that rescued many students who couldn’t pass and obtain their O’level Certificates from their Conventional Secondary Schools before gaining admission into higher Institutions. Before the establishment of the institution, intending students would have to travel a long distance to …

Edo State Government has warned residents against the sale and usage of Norvasc 5mg tablets produced by United States-based drug developer Viatris Inc., following the discovery of iron wires in samples taken from the shipment. In a statement, the Edo State Commissioner for Health, Prof. Obehi Akoria, said the warnings followed the alert by the National Agency for Food and …

About 100 SANs assembled to plead Tinubu, Atiku, Obi’s cases• LP, PDP, others want tribunal to pay attention to substance, not technicalities  Despite the controversies generated by the general elections and the sense of urgency which some Nigerians had argued should follow the election petitions, the Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC) is yet to commence hearing of the petitions, while time …

The presidential candidate of the Labour Party, LP, Peter Obi said he has never violated any law in relation to his alleged detention by the UK Immigration Service. The Labour Party presidential candidate stated this in a statement vis his verified Twitter handle. Obi’s comment comes following his reported detention at the London’s Heathrow Airport by UK immigration early April. …

Since Africa’s third wave of democratisation, many countries have taken on democracy – abolishing military dictatorship, undertaking constitutional reviews and embracing multiparty politics and elections. Yet the continent still struggles with poor leadership. The governing elite has failed to address citizens’ needs and drive a development agenda. In countries such as Equatorial Guinea, Cameroon, Angola, the Republic of the Congo, …

President Muhammadu Buhari said the Federal Government will appeal the court judgement on the case between Senator Ifeanyi Ararume and the Nigeria National Petroleum Company Limited, NNPCL. Meanwhile, the President, who sued for calm in the court case, has maintained that due judicial process will be followed to resolve the problem. Recall that President Buhari had removed Senator Ararume as …

The Returning Officer for the Adamawa State governorship election, Prof Mohammed Mele, on Tuesday declared  Governor Ahmadu Fintiri, the winner of the state governorship poll. Fintiri secured a second term in office having scored 430,861  votes to beat the rival All Progressives Congress candidate, Aisha Dahiru, popularly known as Binani, who amassed 398,788 votes. Also on Tuesday, the Independent National …