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The government of the United Kingdom has responded to PREMIUM TIME’s letter requesting the details of the arrest and detention of the Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, by its immigration officials at Heathrow Airport in London last week. It, however, declined providing sufficient details about Mr Obi’s ordeal as requested by this newspaper in its reply through the Home Office. …

• Rule out Muslim, S’West, Northern lawmakers for Senate President • Key Northern aspirants lobby to head committees Ahead of the inauguration of the 10th National Assembly in June, senators-elect from the southern part of the country are collaborating to ensure that a Senator-elect from the South is elected Senate President. They have urged their compatriots from the South West and the …

Edo State Flood Erosion Watershed Management Agency (Edo FEWMA) has urged residents of Ogiso Community to desist from indiscriminate dumping of waste to sustain the government’s flood and erosion control project in the area. The Environmental Social Safeguard Officer, EdoFEWMA, Pauline Okundia, who spoke to journalists after a town hall engagement with representatives of the community at Shaka Polytechnic, Ogiso, …

BY MIKE OSAROGIAGBON Benin City, Nigeria – A new Assistant Inspector-General of police has been deployed to zone 5 headquarters in Benin City. He is AIG Arungwa Nwazue Udo. He formally assumed duty at the zone on Thursday, April 13, 2023. AIG Arungwa solicited the cooperation of the good people of the Zone, made up of Edo and Delta States, …

Femi Adesina, Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to President Muhammadu Buhari has revealed that the kind of national assignment he has engaged in for nearly eight years, requires him to be strictly responsible to his principal, and not to give attention to unimportant activities. He said the most important thing is for his boss to be contented with his …

Political parties, including the All Progressives Congress and the Peoples Democratic Party, are set to battle for 94 legislative seats in federal and state parliaments in Saturday’s supplementary elections. Supplementary governorship elections will hold in Adamawa and Kebbi states on the same day. In the general elections, the Independent National Electoral Commission declared winners for 26 governorship, 104 senatorial, 329 …

Against the backdrop of the imminent assumption of office, the World Bank Group, WBG, has given a long list of challenges that need to be addressed in the immediate term by the new leadership of the Federal Government. The WBG President, David Malpass, in a press briefing at the ongoing Spring Meetings of the Bretton Woods institutions in Washington D.C., …

The Chairman of the primary election committee, Governor Mohammed Bello-Matawale of Zamfara, confirmed the development after Thursday’s meeting. Friday’s governorship primary election of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kogi took a dramatic turn on Thursday as the deputy governor, Edward Onoja, stepped down for the state’s Auditor-General, Ahmed Usman-Ododo. Mr Onoja was considered the leading aspirant for the APC ticket and …

The National Assembly has forwarded to President Muhammadu Buhari for assent , the  harmonised version of the bill on Nigerian Peace Corps. This was after passage  by both the Senate and the House of Representatives . Transmission of the bill for Presidential assent by the Clerk to the National Assembly ( CNA), Sani Tambuwal as gathered by the News Agency …

The Federal Government, on Thursday, said the amount spent on subsidising Premium Motor Spirit, popularly called petrol, between 2005 and 2021 was N13tn, adding that the country lost N16.3tn to oil theft from 2009 to 2020. It disclosed this in Abuja through the Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative at a policy dialogue on oil swap, co-hosted by NEITI and Policy …