ABUJA — President Muhammadu Buhari has on Thursday, signed two bills, passed by the National Assembly, into law. They include the Climate Change Act and the Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (Amendment) Act amending the AMCON Act No.4, 2010. Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, disclosed this in a statement titled, ‘President Buhari signs climate change, AMCON (amendment) bills into law.’ According to Shehu, the Climate Change Act owes...

ANALYSIS: Direct Primaries for Political Parties May Be A Step Towards 1993 Electoral Model

Last week, the National Assembly passed the Electoral Act Amendment Bill, making it compulsory for all political parties to conduct their primaries using the direct method. Direct electoral method is not new to Nigeria, and in fact, it has been said to have been adopted in the most credible election in Nigeria, which is the 1993 election. According to African Election Database, Moshood Abiola of the then Social Democratic Party (SDP) garnered a total vote...

UNILORIN Dismisses Final Year Student for Beating Female Lecturer to Coma

ILORIN — The management of the University of Ilorin has expelled a final-year student, Salaudeen Waliu Aanuoluwa of the Department of Microbiology after being found guilty of assaulting a female lecturer, Mrs. Rahmat Zakariyau, of the same Department. A statement by the University’s Director of Corporate Affairs, Mr. Kunle Akogun, disclosed that the verdict was handed down by the Student Disciplinary Committee where Salaudeen was arraigned on Monday, adding that “he has 48 days to...

Poverty Rate in Most North-East States is 70% – World Bank

MAIDUGURI — The World Bank has put the poverty rate in most states of the North-East at 70 per cent, adding that the region suffers from severe climate crisis and conflict which are diminishing its development. This was contained in a new report titled, ‘The Lake Chad Regional Economic Memorandum: Development for Peace’, which was released by the bank on Monday. The lender, in the report, revealed that the North-East and other regions around Lake...

Gas Explosion Rocks Ladipo Lagos, Claims Three Lives

LAGOS — A gas explosion on Tuesday morning occurred on Ojekunle Street in the Ladipo area of Mushin, Lagos State. The explosion was reported to have occurred around 8 a.m. An official of the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA) confirmed the incident to newsmen. The official maintained that first responders have been deployed to the area where the explosion happened. The official also said at least three lives have been lost to the explosion...

Nigeria Loses Rank as Africa’s Largest Oil Producer to Libya

Nigeria has lost its tank as the top Africa oil producing country to Libya as its crude oil production further fell last month amid lingering supply disruptions. This was according to a news report by the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC). According to the report, Nigeria told OPEC that its oil production fell to about 1.23 million barrels per day in October from about 1.23 million bpd in the previous month. This was...

Nigeria Can Become Open-Defecation Free by 2025 – Osinbajo

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has said that even as the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari remains committed to the delivery of sustainable sanitation and hygiene services to Nigerians, effective collaboration among all levels of government and the private sector will help the country to achieve its goal to end open defecation by 2025. Osinbajo stated this on Thursday at the virtual meeting of the Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene Steering Committee to review the progress report...

Missing Vanguard Journalist, Tordue Salem, Found Dead

ABUJA — The Vanguard Newspaper reporter who went missing last month, Tordue Salem, has been found dead. The newspaper reported that details of the recovery of his remains were sketchy as of 9.30 pm on Thursday. The Federal House of Representatives correspondent was last seen around Total filling station, close to the Force headquarters, Abuja. An alarm was raised the day after he was last seen when his whereabouts became unknown. One suspect, Prince Enyenihi,...

Again, EFCC Detains Former Edo State Governor, Lucky Igbinedion, Over N1.6bn Fraud

BENIN — The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has detained a former governor of Edo State, Lucky Igbinedion. This was revealed in a report, which maintained that Igbinedion, who finished his tenure as governor in 2007 is being grilled at the Abuja headquarters of the EFCC for allegedly diverting public funds of the sum of N1.6 billion. The diverted fund is a loan obtained by the Edo State Government, and it was diverted to...

UBEC Bars Kwara From Fund Over N1bn Looted By former Govt Officials– Governor AbdulRasaq

ILORIN — The Kwara State Governor, AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq, has said the plan by the main opposition party, Peoples Democratic Party, to come back in 2023 to rule the state, is a wild goose chase. He said Kwara was blacklisted for the looting of the UBEC funds in 2013 by the former PDP administration. The governor in a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Rafiu Ajakaye, on Monday said the “criminal diversion of funds” meant for...

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