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President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, says the National Assembly is working towards passing the Electoral Act Amendment Bill in the next two weeks. Lawan said this at the inauguration of Mr Abimbola Yusuf, as Chief Commissioner of the Public Complaints Commission (PCC) and 37 other Commissioners from the 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) on Monday in...

South Africa’s ex-president Jacob Zuma, on Sunday, lashed out at the judges who gave him a 15-month jail term for absconding from a corruption inquiry. Zuma compared them to the white minority apartheid rulers he once fought. He spoke at his home in Nklandla, in a rural part of Kwazulu Natal province, where hundreds of his supporters, some of them armed,...

The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has exceeded its N36 billion projected revenue from spectrum license fees for 2021,after recording over N150bn revenue in the first five months of this year. NCC’s Executive Vice Chairman, Prof Umar Garba Danbatta, stated this  in a statement on Sunday. The figure represents an over 400 percent increase in revenue budget performance in respect of spectrum...

The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama, said on Sunday the forthcoming state congresses of the All Progressives Congress (APC) would provide the platform for the party to become competitive in Enugu State. Onyeama stated this during a meeting of APC stakeholders from Enugu West Senatorial zone. The minister said the state chapter of the party had passed through several challenges over...

Montenegro’s government may be forced to cede a portion of the country to China after failing to repay a $1 billion loan for road construction. Dubbed “the road to nowhere” by European media, the highway which has been under construction since 2014 leads to a mountain tunnel above a sleepy Montenegrin village. The project is originally designed to connect the country...

The Registrar of the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Prof. Is-haq Oloyede, on Sunday blamed the poor performance of candidates in this year’s Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) on the COVID-19 pandemic. Oloyede, who featured on the Nigerian Television Authority’s programme, “Weekend File,” said 99.65 percent scored 120 marks and above out of the possible 400 this year. He added...

The Federal Government has explained why the Nigerian currency was devalued again, the third time in just a year. According to Zainab Ahmed, Minister of Finance, Budget, and National Planning, one of the reasons is that foreign portfolio investors were unwilling to return to the Nigerian market due to the valuation of the Nigerian Naira which they believe is overvalued. Zianab...

No fewer than 136 students in a high school have been infected with the COVID-19 Delta variant, the Ghana Health Service (GHS) has confirmed. During the latest national COVID-19 update, 136 out of 550 samples taken among students in Achimota School came out positive, said Patrick Kuma-Aboagye, Director-General of the GHS. Aboagye said that three students from the school went to...

The governor of Ebonyi State, David Umahi, has said more of his colleagues from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) would soon defect to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). He said this yesterday during a stakeholders’ meeting of the party in the state, which was aimed at streamlining actions for the peaceful conduct of the party’s forthcoming congresses in the...

A senior Cardinal and nine others are set to face trial for alleged financial recklessness at the Vatican. The alleged financial malfeasance was linked to the purchase of a plush property by the defendants in London. The Italian Cardinal, Angelo Becciu, who is a close ally of Pope Francis, will appear before a tribunal on July 27. The 73-year-old was dismissed from...