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Governor BABAJIDE SANWO-OLU of Lagos State has congratulated TOKUNBO ABIRU and OBAFEMI SAHEED on their victories in the just-concluded bye-elections. ABIRU and SAHEED were declared winners of the bye-elections in Lagos East Senatorial District and Kosofe State Constituency II respectively.According to a statement by the governor’s media aide, GBOYEGA AKOSILE, SANWO-OLU said the emergence of the lawmakers is a validation of peoples’ confiden...

The senator-elect for Lagos-East senatorial district and candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), TOKUNBO ABIRU, has promised to live up to the expectations of his constituents who gave him the mandate.In a series of Tweets on his official Twitter handle, he appreciated the electorates for voting for him and he promised fulfill the agenda of campaign.He listed the agenda to include people-focused quality representation; ensuring the welfare his con...

The first of 300 British troops have arrived in Mali to bolster the United Nations peacekeeping mission there, with the rest due to follow within a week.The United Kingdom's defence ministry says the force will join 14,000 peacekeepers from 50 nations to protect Mali’s population from growing Islamist violence.More than 5,000 French troops have underpinned the operation, but President EMMANUEL MACRON is under pressure to reduce his forces....

The Federal Government has inaugurated the re-constituted government team for the renegotiation of the 2009 agreements between the Federal Government of and Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), as well as other university-based unions, as approved by President MUHAMMADU BUHARI.The Federal Government team, which is categorized into substantive members, advisers and observers, is led by Professor MUNZALI JIBRIL.The Minister of Education, ADAMU ADAMU, ...

The former Chairman of the defunct Pension Reform Task Team, ABDULRASHEED MAINA has been extradited to Nigeria to face his ongoing 2 billion naira money laundering trial.MAINA was arrested in Niamey, the capital of Niger Republic after he jumped bail and was declared wanted by an Abuja High Court.He was received by men of the Nigeria Police Force at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport.Speaking with journalists at the airport, the Comm...

The investigative panel on human rights violations by the defunct Special Anti-Robbery Squad sitting in Abuja has ordered the police to pay the sum of two million naira judgment debt to MARTINS IWUANYANWU for violating his right to access to justice.At the resumed sitting of the panel, Justice SULEIMAN GALADIMA ordered the police to pay the money immediately based on the judgment of a High Court delivered on July 10, 2020 which the police are yet to appeal against....

The Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja has dismissed the petition filed by the suspended Director-General of the National Broadcasting Commission, ISHAQ MODDIBBO KAWU, challenging the decision of the Federal High Court to dismiss his no-case submission.This was disclosed in a statement issued by the spokesperson for the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), AZUKA OGUGUA.ICPC had jointly charged KAWU, LUCKY OMOLUWA and DIP...

The Federal Government has rolled out an auto gas programme called the National Gas Expansion Programme, in Abuja, the nation’s capital.President MUHAMMADU BUHARI attended virtually from the presidential villa, while the Managing Director of Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, MELE KYARI; and the Minister of State for Petroleum, TIMIPRE SYLVA, attended in person.The programme involves the conversion of fuel-powered cars, and generators from petro...

The All Progressives Congress (APC) said it will embark on fresh membership registration and revalidation from Saturday, December 12, 2020 to Saturday, January 9, 2021.This was announced in a statement signed by the party’s National Caretaker Extraordinary/Convention Planning Committee and Yobe State governor, MAI MALA BUNI.The party in the statement said it has consulted with stakeholders including President MUHAMMADU BUHARI on the exercise....

The military has said it is worried about the trend of some locals in the northeast declining to provide useful information to security agencies.Speaking through its spokesman, Major-General JOHN ENENCHE, on a monitored programme in Lagos, the military said some local residents reduce the military’s effectiveness to combat the insecurity scourge in the region by not providing relevant information.Also responding to the United Nation’s report tha...