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The Senate and the House of Representatives have constituted “conference committees” to harmonize the passed Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB). Senate President Ahmad Lawan, who announced the composition of the Senate committee, charged members of the committee to meet with their counterparts in the House of Representatives to enable the National Assembly come up with a final document on the PIB...

President Muhammadu Buhari has decorated the Chief of Army Staff, Major General Faruk Yahaya. Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo and key government officials witnessed the ceremony on Wednesday. The chief of army staff was appointed on May 27 to replace Ibrahim Attahiru who died in a plane crash in Kaduna. The National Assembly confirmed Yahaya’s appointment last month. The brief event at the State House,...

Samuel Aruwan, Commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs in Kaduna State, got more than he bargained for on Monday when he visited Chikun Local Government Area of Kaduna State. The commissioner had led a delegation to Maramara in the LGA over the abduction of students from Bethel Secondary School. Recall that there had been reported how armed men broke into...

The federal government has revealed that the country recorded 4,919 oil spills between 2015 to March 2021. Dr. Mohammad Abubakar, Minister of the Environment, disclosed this at a Town Hall meeting in Abuja, organised by the Ministry of Information and Culture, on protecting oil and gas infrastructure. The Minister who revealed that Nigeria was the most notorious country in the world...

Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to constitute a Government of National Unity. Speaking to BBC Pidgin on the state of the nation on Monday, Soyinka said this became necessary as the state of mind of vast sections of the country mentally, spiritually and economically was that of total distrust for the government. “This government has earned itself, either...

The Minister of State for Industry, Trade and Investment, Ambassador Maryam Katagum, was on Monday, rushed to the Trauma Centre of the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University Teaching Hospital (ATBUTH) Bauchi, after she reportedly slumped at an official event in the state. The Minister was in the state to inaugurate an empowerment programme at the NAADI office, Sani Mallam Shopping Plaza,...

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo, yesterday, debunked reports that he was floating a new political party ahead of the 2023 general elections. There have been reports that the former president has commenced plans to form a new political party. The former president, in a statement by his media aide, Kehinde Akinyemi, maintained that he has no plan to float a new political...

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) General Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) has replied to the Federal Government of Nigeria over the reason it offered for the suspension of flights to Dubai in the past four months. The Minister of Aviation, Senator Hadi Sirika had during a briefing by the Presidential Steering Committee on COVID-19 described the protocol introduced by the UAE...

Governors of the 17 southern states have unanimously agreed that the next President of Nigeria should emerge from their region, puncturing the ambition of prominent politicians from the North. This was the resolution of the Southern Governors’ Forum at the end of a meeting, which held at Lagos House, Alausa, on Monday. They also resolved that the presidency of Nigeria be...

The Lagos House of Assembly has passed an amended version of the Criminal Justice Law of the State barring the Police from parading suspects before the media henceforth. Section 9(A) of the bill, which was passed after a voice vote at a sitting presided over by the Deputy Speaker, Wasiu Eshilokun-Sanni, states that the Police must from the commencement of...