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• Confirms ex-IGP Arase as chairperson of Police Service Commission• Asks IGP to investigate disappearance of NSCDC deputy commandant The planned final consideration and passage of N22.7 trillion Ways and Means restructuring request suffered another setback, yesterday. President Muhammadu Buhari had, in December 2022, forwarded the request to the Senate and House of Representatives for expeditious consideration. The Senate, however, …

The fare, power supply, trial run and when the train will be available to the everyday Lagosian. The first phase of the Lagos Blue rail was commissioned by President Muhammadu Buhari with fanfare and a speech by Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu on Monday. The first phase of the 13 kilometres elevated train network stretches from Marina to Mile 2. At the event, the …

The Senate, on Wednesday, suspended plenary to enable the lawmakers to participate in campaigns for the general elections.President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, made the announcement at plenary. Mr Lawan said the senate would start its recess today (Wednesday) to enable senators to participate fully in the campaigns for their return or their political parties. He said that “the elections of …

The National Judicial Council, NJC, has recommended the appointment of 84 new judges and nine heads of courts. The Council, which is headed by the Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Justice Okukayode Ariwoola, said the appointments were part of concerted efforts to prepare the Judiciary for litigations that might arise from the impending general elections. The legal body, in a statement …

•Don’t sell your votes, Catholic Bishop warns General Superintendent of the Deeper Christian Life Bible Ministry, Pastor Williams F. Kumuyi has called on Christian faithful and indeed Nigerians to vote intelligently in order to elect the best leaders in the upcoming general elections. This is as the Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Abeokuta, Most Rev. Peter Olukayode Odetoyinbo, urged the …

The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Bola  Tinubu, on Wednesday said there was a plan to sabotage the coming election. Tinubu cited the lingering fuel crisis and naira redesign by the Central Bank of Nigeria as part of the plot to scuttle the poll and his expected victory. The APC standard bearer spoke during the APC presidential campaign …

The manifestoes of the presidential candidates contain plans for reducing the cost of governance so that Nigeria can use more of its revenues for the development of the economy. A month to Nigeria’s presidential election, the candidates are in full campaign spirit as they seek to convince citizens to vote for them to succeed President Muhammadu Buhari. The four leading …

President, Nigerian Association of Road Transport Owners (NARTO), Alhaji Yusuf Lawal Othman, has described the composition of a 14-man Steering Committee on Petroleum Products Supply and Distribution Management, chaired by President Muhammadu Buhari, as an audacious and necessary step meant to restore normalcy to the crises-riddled downstream sector of the petroleum industry. Othman particularly noted that the terms of reference captures …

Attacking Buhari won’t save you from defeat, Atiku mocks Tinubu• Stop going to Abeokuta, Obi taunts Tinubu• Marketers hoard fuel, find alibi in revised LASG directive on operations• Marketers may sue NNPC over inability to deliver PMS • Again, Buhari back to PMS tracking as petrol scarcity persists  Less than a month to the presidential election and many months since the …

The UK government on Monday said it had cut tariffs and extended duty-free trade in goods exported from Nigeria Mr Ben Llewellyn-Jones, Deputy British High Commissioner to Nigeria said this at the launch of the Developing Countries Trading Scheme (DCTS) which took place at Eko Hotel and Suites, Victoria Island, Lagos. Llewellyn-Jones said the scheme would help to boost Nigeria’s …