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Yakubu, Bello, Wada seek violence-free Kogi guber election The Sokoto Zonal office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has raided the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC’s) office in Zamfara State and recovered N65.5m. A statement issued in in ...

The Nigeria Employers Consultative Association (NECA) has urged organised labour to shelve its planned October 16, 2019 nationwide strike over the non-implementation of minimum wage for grade levels seven to 17. Speaking when he visited the Minister of Labour and ...

The Kaduna chapter of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has blamed the state government for its inability to arrest banditry and kidnapping, following the abduction of Principal of Government Technical College, Francis Maji, in Kajuru. Its Chairman, Reverend Joseph ...

After spending 143 days in detention, human rights activist and journalist, Steven Kefas, has filed an N500 million suit against Kaduna State Governor Nasir el-Rufai, Inspector General of Police (IGP), Mohammed Adamu and four others over alleged infringement on his ...

Acting chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu, disclosed that involvement of the commission in ‘arresting’ ghost workers in the civil service led to the redemption of over N4.5 billion monthly. Magu, while delivering a lecture ...

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has insisted that only a few countries in the world can claim to have a low level of corruption, but that none is in Africa. Osinbajo spoke yesterday in Abuja at the launch of FLAG’IT App ...

Former President Goodluck Jonathan visited President Muhammadu Buhari, his first visit to Aso Rock in Buhari’s second term. He arrived at the State House around 2.58 pm and met the President behind closed doors in his office around 3 pm. ...

The Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption (PACAC) has said the N1 trillion recovered by various government agencies was used to finance the 2017 and 2018 national budgets. The chairman, Prof. Itse Sagay, made the disclosure while fielding questions from newsmen ...

The Federal Government has approved the review of the National Broadcasting Code and extant related laws to increase fine from N500, 000 to N5, 000,000 for breaches relating to hate speech, inciting comments and indecency. In the new dispensation, willful ...

Organised labour and rights activists have urged the Lagos State government, other states of the federation and the Federal Government to provide safe, clean and affordable drinking water to Nigerians through the public sector. They specifically tasked the Governor Babajide ...