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President Muhammadu Buhari has signed into law the fifth alteration to the 1999 Constitution requiring the President and Governors to send the list of Ministers and Commissioners to the legislature within sixty days after inauguration. The bill, fifth alteration no 23 which is one of the bills which got two third approval of State legislatures, was sent to the President ... Read More »

The Federal High Court sitting in Lagos Tuesday heard that a former acting Director-General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) Haruna Baba Jauro allegedly laundered N120million through the bank account of a firm he registered in the name of himself, his children and relations. An Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) witness, Orji Chukwuma, made the allegation ... Read More »

The Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja on Monday reserved judgement on the Osun State governorship appeal filed by Governor Ademola Adeleke. The appeal filed by Adeleke of the Peoples Democratic Party is against a judgment of the tribunal which invalidated his election as governor of Osun State. The three-member panel of justices led by Justice M.F. Shuaibu began sitting ... Read More »

….Anger in Ekiti, Osun, others over rejection of old notes .,….Radio presenter slumps, dies while trekking to work THE cash scarcity caused by the naira redesign claimed another life yesterday in Ibadan as pressure mounts on the Federal Government and the Central Bank (CBN) to ease the suffering of the people. The Bayelsa State Government is suing for calm in ... Read More »

The House of Representatives- Member Elect Ifako- Ijaiye Federal Constituency Hon. Benjamin Adeyemi Olabinjo (BAO) sympathizes with the victims while his thoughts and prayers are with the people and government of Lagos State as they grieve the deaths and injuries resulting from the train and bus collision yesterday morning between PWD Shogunle axis in Ikeja.“` Olanijo (BAO) notes that the ... Read More »

INEC says with court ruling, it becomes too late to concluded the reconfiguration of Bvas For the Elections intially scheduled to hold March 11th, 2023 INEC notes the political campaign will continue until midnight on Thursday March 16th, 2023. The electoral umpire promises all political parties and their candidates that the data for the presidential and national assembly elections will ... Read More »

The Presidential Election Petition Court, PEPC, sitting at the Court of Appeal in Abuja, on Wednesday, gave the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, the nod to reconfigure the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System, BVAS, it used for the presidential election. The court, in a unanimous decision by a three-member panel of justices, held that stopping the electoral body from reconfiguring the ... Read More »

Embattled former deputy Senate president, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, accused of plotting to exploit a man for his kidney, told a London court that he thought he was being ‘scammed’ by doctors. Ekweremadu, 60, is accused of conspiring to facilitate the travel of a man to Britain to use him as an organ donor for his sick daughter. A 21-year-old street ... Read More »

Chrisland School, Ikeja, Lagos will remain shut until the Lagos State government is satisfied that the lives of students in the school are not endangered and other safety concerns are addressed, the Commissioner for Education, Mrs Folasade Adefisayo, has said. In a statement yesterday signed by her, she also said a number of steps had been taken by the state ... Read More »

The apex court has therefore ordered that the 200, 500 and 1000 Naira note Remain in circulation till December, 31th 2023. Read More »