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Femi Adesina President Muhammadu Buhari Wednesday in Abuja regretted the recent killing of a young man, Kolade Johnson, by Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) operatives from the Lagos State Police Command, saying the federal government would not condone the brutalisation of Nigerians or violation of their rights. The president also threatened …

  SECOND Republic Senator Hassan Adisa Fashinro is dead. He passed on at exactly 8.29pm yesterday after a brief illness. He was 99. Lagos State Governor Akinwunmi Ambode was saddened by the death of one of the founding fathers of the state. Popularly called HAB, Pa Fashinro was the first …

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC)  yesterday said it has not raised  teams to probe or interrogate some of the outgoing governors. It said it does not go after anybody, including ex-governors on speculative ground. The EFCC, which made the clarifications in a statement by its Acting Head of …

A leading Northern politician, Alhaji Tanko Yakassai, has said that Vice President Yemi Osinbajo could be the next President of Nigeria. In a special interview from Kano Thursday, Yakassai told The Interview that, “there may be an unwritten understanding that when President Muhammadu Buhari finishes, the Vice President will likely …

THE three tiers of government – federal, states and 774 council areas —yesterday shared N619.857 billion as Federal Allocation for  February. A communiqué issued by the Technical  Sub -Committee of the Federation Accounts Allocation Committee (FAAC) at the end of its February meeting, indicated that the gross statutory revenue received …

Speaker Yakubu Dogara has chided the Executive led by President Muhammadu Buhari for constantly blaming the Legislature for delays in the passage of the country’s annual budgets. In his opening address at the national budget hearing organised jointly by the Committees on Appropriations of the Senate and the House of …

A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has dismisses a suit challenging the decision of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to conclude, collate, and announce the governorship election results from Tafawa Balewa Local Government in Bauchi State. In his ruling on Monday, the presiding judge Justice Inyang Ekwo dismissed …

Chief Olusegun Obasanjo A former Nigerian President, Olusegun Obasanjo has decried the level of disunity in the country, stressing that the situation now is worse than what was experienced during the civil war. “When we look at this country today, even during the civil war, we were not as divided …

David-Umahi Ebonyi State Governor, David Umahi, has opposed the proposed plan by federal government to lift Value Added Tax (VAT) from five percent to 35 percent, stressing that it would put the country in difficult situations.This is coming as the Federal Inland Revenue Service ((FIRS), Wednesday refuted reports that its …

Injuries and avoidable accidents that occur on highways are not always due to bad roads as claimed by road users, the Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, has said. According to him, road accidents are largely due to speeding and the recklessness of drivers, as no driver speeds …