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The INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, disclosed this at the commission’s second quarterly meeting with political parties in Abuja. According to him, the 18 political parties had scheduled their primaries for the election in line with the timetable released by the commission. Yakubu, however, refused to mention the parties that had declared their intention to take part in the election. He said: “In the...

President Muhammadu Buhari could not hide his joy in Maiduguri on Thursday, after commissioning seven out of 556 capital projects delivered by Borno Governor, Professor Babagana Umara Zulum, in just two years in office. “I am highly impressed by the very dynamic leadership that His Excellency Governor Babagana Umaru Zulum has been providing in Borno State in the last two...

Self-styled Yoruba activist, Chief Sunday Adeyemo, aka Sunday Igboho, on Wednesday, issued a fresh warning to Fulani herdsmen in the South-West to vacate the region for their own good. In a video message issued by his media aide, Oluyomi Koiki, the activist said the fresh eviction notice was to herdsmen who still hide in South-West forests to carry out atrocities. Igboho...

The Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike on Wednesday pledged to enact anti-open grazing law in the state. Wike disclosed this during the commissioning of two streets in new G.R.A., Port Harcourt. He said the decision followed the resolution of the southern governors to ban open grazing in the region. The governor said the bill would be forwarded to the state House of Assembly...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Wednesday arraigned five management staff of the Sokoto State Primary Staff Pension Board at the state High Court for alleged diversion of N553, 985,644. The fund was meant for the payment of retired teachers’ gratuities and pension. Those arraigned by the commission were the Board’s Secretary, Abubakar Aliyu; the Director of Finance and...

Meanwhile, human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, said yesterday that President Buhari was misled by the Attorney-General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami, regarding gazetted grazing routes in the southern part of Nigeria. In response to southern governors’ ban of open grazing, which Malami had vehemently kicked against, President Buhari, during an interview on ARISE TV last week, revealed that he had...

The Director, Department of Animal Husbandry Services, Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Winnie Lai- Solarin, has said there are Nigeria has 415 grazing reserves in 21 states, 141 gazetted. However, of these 415 grazing reserves, only two are in the South— one each in Ogun and Oyo; 141 are gazetted, and this 141 that are gazetted are about...

An Ikeja High Court has sentenced a former Managing Director of the defunct Bank PHB Plc, Francis Atuche, to 12 years imprisonment and former Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of the bank, Ugo Anyanwu, to 10 years, for stealing and conspiracy to steal N27billion. But Justice Lateefat Okunnu, before whom the defendants were tried, discharged and acquitted Atuche’s wife Elizabeth. In sentencing...

The Nigerian Navy has agreed to establish its Desert Warfare Institute in Kano. The agreement came after a request tabled before the Chief of Naval Staff (CNS), Rear Admiral Awwal Zubairu Gambo by Governor Abdullahi Ganduje to ensure the presence and visibility of Nigerian Navy in the state. This was disclosed by Real Admiral COR Ezekobe, Chief of Policy and Plans,...

The Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, said on Wednesday the Federal Government has paid $150 million out of the $2 billion loan taken from China for railway projects in the country. He said the $150 million represents 7.5 percent of the entire loan. The minister disclosed when he featured in a Channels Television’s programme, ‘Politics Today. Amaechi said contrary to claims by the...