The House of Representatives Committee on Public Accounts has placed Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TetFund), National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) and the Joints Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) on “Status Enquiry” over failure to render their audited accounts to the Auditor General’s office.The agencies were summoned by the committee as part of its investigation…
The federal government has given matching ordered contractors handling Benin- Auchi-Okene road to make m sure that the road is motorable all year round pending the completion of the road.The Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, gave the order yesterday during the inspection of the dualisation Benin-Auchi-Okene as well as Igueben Uromi-.Agbor roads.He told…
13 PDP aspirants in the March 28 local government council election in Cross River State have said emphatically that the danger of losing Cross River State as a PDP state to the opposition party, APC, has become too real.In a petition they jointly signed and submitted to the national headquarters of the party against the…
The Akwa Ibom State Police Command has arrested a fake army captain and his accomplices for car snatching, and five suspects for trafficking, theft and abduction of under age children.The Police Public Relations Officer, CSP Nudam Fredrick said in a statement made available to newsmen on Friday in Uyo, that the fake captain who was…
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Thursday deregistered 74 political parties in Nigeria. This was disclosed on Thursday by INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu at a news conference in Abuja. Yakubu disclosed that the decision was taken by the commission in line with the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria as well as…
The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), will jet out of Abuja to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on Friday (tomorrow). A State House statement by his media aide, Mr Garba Shehu, said on Thursday that Buhari would be attending the 33rd Ordinary Session of Heads of State and Government of the African Union. The theme of…
The National Industrial Court sitting in Yenagoa, Bayelsa state has nullify the decision of Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State on sacked permanent secretaries in the state on 2015.Wike on assumption of office in 2015 ordered for the sack of eight permenent secretaries and others from the state civil service. The Permanent secretaries including; Samuel Woka,…
This is to bring to your notice and that of the United States of America, a serious case of judicial compromise and deliberate perversion of justice by the Supreme Court of Nigeria, which is now threatening our democracy as well as the peace, stability and corporate existence of our dear nation. You may recall that our…
This formed part of the resolutions reached after the lawmakers had a debate on the nation’s security during Wednesday’s plenary in Abuja. A member of the House, Abubakar Fulata, had informed his colleagues in the chamber that the service chiefs had outlived their usefulness. According to him, it will be to the detriment of the…
The Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, has ordered the probe of contracts for the construction of the Edo Specialist Hospital and supply of hospital equipment.The state government consequently constituted a Commission of Inquiry to conduct a detailed inquiry from conceptualization, design, construction and equipping of the hospital among othersA statement signed by the Secretary…
