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The House of Representatives Committee set up to resolve the crisis in the Bauchi State House of Assembly has concluded its investigation and vowed to ensure that justice is done on the complaints from across the state. Headed by Musa ...

The Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit (NFIU) and Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) have commenced an operation aimed at deregistering all ‘faceless’ briefcase firms without physical location from operating in the country. They disclosed that the move was to track fraudulent ...

Inspector General of Police (IGP), Mohammed Adamu, has restricted protests within the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) to the Unity Fountain in the Central Business District of Abuja. The move is to ensure security of lives and properties, free flow of traffic ...

Citing the frequent change of commissioners of police, the Rivers government is to launch fresh comprehensive security architecture to enhance security in the state. Governor Nyesom Wike dropped the hint while receiving the new Commissioner of Police, Mustapha Dandaura, at ...

The Presidential Election Petition Tribunal has ordered the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Mahmood Yakubu, and the Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) in Zamfara State to appear before it today. They are to come before the Justice ...

The House of Representatives yesterday gave Governor Godwin Obaseki one week to issue a fresh proclamation for the reconstitution of the Edo State House of Assembly in deference to Section 105 (3) of the 1999 Constitution (as amended). It asked ...

Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) have advocated the repeal of drug laws in Nigeria, which according to them, do not take into cognisance the health and human rights of people who use drugs. They stated this at a stakeholders’ roundtable on ...

No fewer than 303 Nigerian students from the 17 southern states have received not less than $7.5 million in full or partial scholarships from 225 American tertiary schools for the 2019/2020 academic session. Acting United States (U.S.) Consul General, Osman ...

Immediate past Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, has canvassed public and private participation in funding infrastructure in the country. Speaking at the launch of ‘Frontier Capital Markets and Investment Banking: Principles and Practice from Nigeria’, a book ...

The election petition tribunal in Kano State has rejected the representation of Governor Abdullahi Ganduje of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate, Abba Yusuf, at the tribunal. Led by Justice Halima Mohammad, the ...