SARS problem is about leadership — Former IG, Arase

A former Inspector-General of Police, Dr Solomon Arase, has said the major issue with the Special Anti-Robbery Squad is leadership. Arase asked the police authorities to reshape public perception and redirect the focus of the police unit to its core mandate. The former police boss spoke in Lagos on Monday …

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APC NWC agrees on direct primaries

The National Working Committee (NWC) of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has agreed to adopt direct primaries to conduct elections that will produce Presidential, Senate, House of Representatives, Governorship and State House of Assembly’s candidates ahead of 2019 general elections, a reliable party source told Daily Trust last night. …

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CBN uplifts Forex Market with $210m

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), has injected another sum of $210 million into the inter-bank Foreign Exchange Market, in its desire to ensure that forex is available for customers’ needs in various segments of the market. According to the figures obtained from the CBN on Tuesday, 28th August, 2018, …

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Osinbajo urges stiffer sanctions for corrupt lawyers

Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, yesterday, decried the pervading level of corruption in the justice sector, even as he called for stiffer sanctions against legal practitioners found culpable in acts of judicial malpractices. Osinbajo, who spoke at the ongoing Annual General Conference of Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, in Abuja …

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How I lost Bauchi South — Yuguda

Echoes of the recent Bauchi South Senatorial by-election have resounded with the immediate past governor of the state, Alhaji Isa Yuguda putting the loss of his former home base to what he described as election irregularities perpetrated by the authorities. Yuguda contested the election on the platform of the Green …

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