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Lawmakers of the National Assembly are expected to resume legislative activities today after a three-week break to observe the Christmas and New Year holidays. It would be the final months of the ninth assembly which will end in June. As they prepare to embark on the last lap of their tenure, priorities and expectations are high. For lawmakers who are seeking re-election, …

With barely three days after Reverend Isaac Archi of the St. Peter and Paul Catholic Church Kafin Koro Deanery was gruesomely murdered by yet to be identified gunmen in Kaffin-koro, Paikoro local government area of Niger state, some angry youths on Tuesday morning set the Kafin-koro police station ablaze. The Police was also said to have shot and killed one …

Atiku Abubakar and Ifeanyi Okowa Presidential Campaign has demanded the immediate arrest and questioning of the Presidential Candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Ahmed Tinubu for his alleged formation of a uniformed gang of thugs code named “Jagaban Army.” The campaign on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party alleged that the formation of such group was for the …

Edo State Government has intensified the campaign against Lassa fever in the state, rallying the support and collaboration of all stakeholders to contain the disease and protect citizens across all Edo communities. The government, through the State’s Ministry of Health, took the sensitization campaign to Edo Central and Edo North Senatorial Districts, meeting with patient medicine dealers in the senatorial …

*VP headlines Interswitch 20th anniversary event in Lagos With the rapid growth of innovation and technology recorded over the years globally, there are even more exciting new frontiers to be explored and harnessed by Nigeria’s talented and enterprising young entrepreneurs. This was the view of Nigeria’s Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo (SAN), in a pre-recorded speech at a weekend ceremony in …

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo of Nigeria, is the Special Guest of Honour today at a forum tagged “Conversation with the Vice President and Young People,” hosted by his Liberian counterpart Dr. Jewel Howard-Taylor. Osinbajo (SAN), who departed Abuja for Monrovia this morning for the one-day visit to the West African nation, will also have a bilateral meeting with President George …

Nigerians will from today receive a new electronic card for local transactions that will be charged in Nigeria. The procurement cost and operational charges are still unknown. A card payment scheme is simply a payment that processes payments using debit and credit cards.  On a global scale, Visa and Mastercard are two of the largest card payment schemes. Domestically, debit cards …

• Fears over election security Six weeks to the general election, there is anxiety over the expected retirement of the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Alkali Usman Daba, three Deputy Inspectors General of Police (DIGs), many Assistant Inspectors General of Police (AIGs), Commissioners of Police (CPs) and 290 other policemen in the first quarter of this year. IGP Baba would turn …

Hoodlums have burnt down the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, office in Enugu South Local Government Area, LGA, Enugu State. Vanguard gathered that the incident occurred on Sunday night when the arsonists stormed the INEC office situated at Amechi Awkunanaw in Enugu South LGA. The gunmen also shot and killed one of the security men guarding the commission’s premises and …

PREMIUM TIMES believes that no one has worked harder to debase the Central Bank of Nigeria than its current governor. Controversy dogged the decision by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to redesign the nation’s banknotes from the day in October last year when the bank’s governor announced it. There were questions around the propriety of the redesign before serious conversations had …