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The All Progressive Grand Alliance candidate for the gubernatorial elections of kogi state, Mr. Kingsley Idoko Ilona has congratulated Muslims on the occasion of the year’s EID-El-KABIR, urging kogites and Nigerians at large to pray for peace, unity and progress of the country. Idoko in a press statement signed by his campaign council felicitated with […]
The Incident Centre for Election Atrocities (ICEA) has called on the Inspector General of Police and the DG of the Department of State Security to immediately arrest and prosecute politicians and the INEC officials that are compromising the integrity of the electoral process by demanding payment for insurance of Permanent Voters Cards in Enugu State. […]
The House of Representatives Adhoc Committee on new naira re-design and naira swap policy has rejected the ten days extension granted by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) for the exchange of old naira notes. The CBN had fixed January 31st as the deadline for the exchange of the old naira notes; N200, N500 and […]
Justice Inyang Ekwo of the Federal High Court, Abuja, on Monday temporarily restrained the National Assembly from deleting or taking any further steps regarding Section 84 (12) of the newly Electoral Act, 2022. Justice Ekwo made the order while delivering ruling in an exparte application brought by the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), challengingly the legality […]
The Senate has received an executive bill seeking to increase the retirement age for teachers in the country from 60 to 65 years. The bill also seeks to extend the years of service for teachers from 35 to 40 years. President Muhammadu Buhari, in a letter addressed to the Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, and read […]
The House of Representatives has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to declare a state of emergency on security in the country as part of urgent measures to address the worsening situation. The House took the decision at an executive session members held on Tuesday that lasted for over three hours in Abuja, coming out with […]
The House of Representatives has raised an alarm over three-years duplication of annual budget figures by the National Universities Commission, NUC. It was uncovered by the House panel thatthe agency duplicated its annual capital budgets from 2017 to 2020. According to the house ad hoc committee “On the need to investigate capital projects executed and […]
The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rep. Femi Gbajabiamila, has said that education remains one of the major priorities of the 9th House of Representatives. Gbajabiamila said the House would do everything within its power to support educational institutions to have conducive learning environments. This is even as the Speaker got praises from the […]
A delegation from the House of Representatives had constructive engagements with the US Department of States to review the relationship between both countries with specific regards to Nigeria’s security issues. The legislative delegation was led by Rep. Jimi Benson, Chairman House Committee on Defence; and had Rep. Abdulrazak Namdas, Chairman House Committee on Army; Rep. […]
Ekpedeme King, Abuja: The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) wishes to inform the public, particularly the 2000 applicants for employment into the NIS whose names were earlier published in the Leadership Newspaper of 15th August and ThisDay Newspaper of 16th August, 2016 that the screening exercise of the applicants will take place as scheduled at the […]