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***advocates specific roles for Traditional Rulers to tackle insecurity The Senate has indicated that the vacuum of intelligence gathering at the grassroots created by the 1976 local government reform is responsible for the wave of insecurity bedeviling the Nation particularly in the Northern part of the country was They insisted that the removal of traditional rulers…
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has requested that all banks in the country submit the statements of domiciliary accounts of some high profile individuals. The apex bank issued the directive in a September 15 letter signed by Z. Markus for the director of banking supervision. The affected individuals include Adebutu Kessington, a businessman popularly…
El-Rufai Signs Law On Death, Castration Of Rapists Kaduna State Governor Nasir el-Rufai has signed into law the amended Penal Code Law 2020 that provides for stiff penalties for rape of a child including death, surgical castration for male convicts, and bilateral salpingectomy for female rapists. The state House of Assembly had last week Wednesday…
FAKE SOCIAL MEDIA STATEMENT I read with great consternation and disgust a statement purportedly issued byme on a so called outcome of the Gubernatorial election of Edo State. First, let me state emphatically that at no time did I issue any statement, verbal orwritten, on the fortunes of the APC, or any other Party, in…
Rapists are on the rampage in Bauchi State as young girls and boys, as well as women, are being raped in different parts of the state on daily basis. In the last few months, dozens of girls, some as young as six years old have fallen victims of rape being orchestrated by men aged between…
The talks between the Federal Government and the Organised Labour over the removal of petrol subsidy and the increase in electricity tariffs, ended in a deadlock on Monday. While welcoming the labour leaders to the meeting held at the Bouquet Hall of the Presidential Villa, in Abuja, the Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris…
Immediate past President of the Senate, Dr. Bukola Saraki, has broken his silence over the crushing defeats he suffered along with other candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party ( PDP) in the 2019 general elections in Kwara state. Saraki who broke the silence Tuesday in Abuja at a Virtual ocassion to mark the 2020 International…
…Police arrest two task force officials, protesters torch building Commercial activities in Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital, were on Tuesday disrupted as tricycle operators, popularly known as ‘Keke drivers’, protested the alleged death of their member Isaac Kosudi in the Tricycle Task Force office on Swali Road. The protest followed the arrest and impoundment of…
The Kogi State Government has warned schools against any unauthorized charges on students, as schools at all levels reopen for academic activities in the State, The warning is contained in a statement issued in Lokoja on Monday by Wemi Jones, Commissioner for Education, Science and Technology. He warned all heads of schools against charging any…
To deepen democratic practices in Nigeria, the United States has imposed visa ban on individuals, who it said undermined conducts of the November 2019 Kogi and Bayelsa governorship polls. It said the move was in the run-up to the September and October 2020 Edo and Ondo governorship polls. Spokesperson for the Department of State, Morgan…
