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The acting Registrar-General of the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC), Mrs Azuka Obiageli, will on Wednesday, December 18 be arraigned by the Federal Government before the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) on assets declaration-related charges. This was announced in a statement by the CCT’s Head of Press and Public Relations, Ibraheem...

The Edo House of Assembly on Wednesday passed the state 2020 Appropriation Bill of N179.2 billion. This followed a motion by House Leader, Mr Roland Asoro and seconded by Mr Ephraim Aluebhosele, member representing Igueben at plenary in Benin. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) recalls that Gov. Godwin Obaseki...

Senate President Ahmad Lawan has said that the National Assembly under his leadership will not pass any anti-people laws. He stated this in response to a protest letter by Human Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) against the hate speech and anti-social media bills that have passed various levels of reading...

The Chairman of the Senate Committee on Establishment and Public Service, Ibrahim Shekarau, has claimed that the federal government currently owes retirees over N400 billion in accrued pension. Shekarau said this at the second annual National Assembly retreat with the Pension Funds Operators Association of Nigeria (PenOp) held in Uyo,...

The Integrated Personnel Payroll Integrated System (IPPIS) has explained that the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) and a few other agencies are not on their platform because these agencies are revenue-generating entities. IPPIS further stated that these agencies...

  John Cardinal Onaiyekan on Tuesday formally bowed out as the Catholic Archbishop of Abuja and handed over to his successor, Ignatius Kaigama. Onaiyekan, who handed over at a press conference in Abuja, said that Kaigama would be formally inaugurated on Thursday in Abuja. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN),...

The presiding bishop of the Living Faith Church, also known as Winners Chapel, Bishop David Oyedepo, has urged Nigerians not to give in to the hate speech bill as proposed and being legislated upon by the Senate. Speaking at the 2019 Shiloh, an annual event of the church,  Oyedepo accused...

  The Secretary-General to The World Meteorological Organisation (WMO), Petteri Taalas, has said that the current decade is on record to be the hottest. Taalas who made the remark on Tuesday at the UN climate summit in Madrid, said, “We are nowhere near on track to meet the Paris Agreement...

A Federal High Court in Ikoyi, Lagos State has ordered the recovery of pensions collected by former governors serving as ministers and members of the National Assembly. The court ordering the Federal Government to recover the earlier paid pensions to these former political office holders, also directed the Attorney General...

  A former Senate President, Dr.  Bukola Saraki, has accused President Muhammadu Buhari of judicial abuse. The EFCC had in May accused Saraki of “conspiracy, abuse of office, misappropriation of public funds, theft, and money-laundering,” consequently labelling his houses as proceeds of unlawful activities. Justice  Mohammed Liman sitting at the...