The Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, has told the Federal Special Anti Robbery Square across the country to respect people’s rights or risk being sanctioned. Idris who said membership of FSARS was voluntary, asked those who felt they could not cope with the reforms in the unit to opt out. He said that forthwith, […]
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The All Progressives Congress has asked its aspirants for state assemblies, who are unable to buy nomination forms in their states, to come to the national secretariat of the party. The party, in a statement by its acting National Publicity Secretary, Yekini Nabena, said the party had received complaints from some states assembly aspirants that […]
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Acting Chairman of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mr Ibrahim Magu, says politicians defecting from one party to another would not be shielded from prosecution by the anti-graft agency. Speaking during a parley with editors in Lagos on Wednesday, Magu said there is no hiding place for such politicians in the fight against corruption […]
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The Nigeria Police Force said it would arraign Ismail Yakubu, 45, in court on Wednesday for giving false information to the police to carry out a search on Chief Edwin Clark’s residence in Abuja. Four policemen had on Tuesday illegally carried out a search on the Abuja residence of Clark following information from Yakubu, an […]
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Buhari, Jinping President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday in Beijing won the crucial support of the Chinese President, Xi Jinping, for the country’s aspiration to build the 3050 Megawatts Mambilla hydroelectric power project. The two countries also signed an agreement of $328 million for the Information and Communication Technology Infrastructure Backbone Phase II (NICTIB II) project. […]
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– detains informant, 4 policemen who carried out the illegal search The Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris has apologised to elder statesman, Chief Edwin Clark over an unauthorised raid carried out by some policemen on his house in Abuja. Idris, who has already detained the informant and the four policemen who carried out the […]
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Oshiomhole, 2nd R, with others displaying the cheque The Nigeria Consolidation Ambassadors’ Network, a group, on Wednesday in Abuja picked the All Progressives Congress (APC) Expression of Interest and Nomination forms for President Muhammadu Buhari to re-contest the presidency in 2019. This made Buhari the first aspirant to pick the nomination form as the APC […]
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The Ondo State Governor, Arakunrin Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, SAN, has identified inconsistent land policies, uncoordinated execution of polices with poor monitoring and evaluation as factors militating against effective governance of the land sector. Inaugurating an 11-man Land Reform Committee at the Cocoa Conference Hall of his office in Akure, he said upon the constitution of the […]
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The current bitter controversy tearing apart the APC party is that concerning the method to adopt for selecting its candidates for contesting the coming general elections. Prior to the NEC meeting last Thursday, some notable party leaders and NWC members of the party had proposed that, owing to the bastardization of the indirect primary method […]
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National Leader of All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Ahmed Tinubu (left); APC Lagos Chairman, Tunde Balogun and Lagos State Governor Akinwunmi Ambode, during the stakeholders’ meeting at the party’s secretariat in Lagos… on Monday As the 2019 general elections approach, there have been strong speculations that the national leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress […]
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