The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN), on Friday said that it had recovered more than 693 containers of power equipment abandoned at ports due to tariff. The Managing Director (MD) of TCN, Usman Mohammed, said this in a statement in Lagos. Mr Mohammed said that some of the power equipment had been auctioned by the
SENATOR representing Katsina south, Abu Ibrahim, says there will be no peace in the upper legislative chamber until Senate President Bukola Saraki resigns. Speaking with journalists in Abuja on Thursday, Ibrahim said going by conventions around the world, it is the majority party that produces the leadership in parliament. The senator said by leaving the
The World Bank says it is willing to provide technical support to Nigeria in critical areas to facilitate the country’s economic growth and development. A statement from the ministry of budget and national planning quoted Hafez Ghanem, World Bank’s vice-president for Africa as saying Nigeria is “top priority” during a discussion with Udo Udoma, the
The Chief of Army Staff, Tukur Buratai, has circulated a set of operational guidelines warning Nigerian Army commanders of grave consequences should they abandon their positions in the face of firepower from Boko Haram insurgents. The 180-word memo, sent to all commanders at all levels, formations and locations in the nine-year-long war against Islamist militants
Wailing cries and impassioned tears met bulldozers and angry officials in the Chinese province of Jiangxi as a campaign to phase out burials found a very real face. Aiming to reduce the space needed for graveyards and to discourage people from spending excessive amounts on ornate coffins, the Jiangxi has been pushing burial reform. They
A Non-Governmental Organisation and democracy group, the National Movement for Positive Change (NMPC) has advocated a reduction in salaries and allowances of political office holders to reduce the rising number of aspirants which seems to have been consistently heat the polity and described it as danger to Nigeria’s democracy. This was the position was conceived
The All Progressives Congress(APC) has urged the Senate president, Bukola Saraki, to quit the office after he defected to the opposition. Mr Saraki joined his former party, the Peoples Democratic Party on Tuesday, complaining about maltreatment in the APC. Scores of his supporters, including Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed of Kwara, have since joined him in the
The Abuja division of the court of appeal has set aside a judgement of the federal high court which held that the national assembly lacked power to change the sequence of election. In April, the lower court held that the national assembly could not alter election timetable released by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
The Senate President, Bukola Saraki, on Tuesday announced that he is leaving the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), accusing forces within the party of causing his exit. Mr Saraki is the third in hierarchy in Nigeria’s current governance structure coming after President Muhammadu Buhari and Vice President Yemi Osinbajo. His defection, therefore, puts the APC
THE minister of information, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, says Senate President Bukola Saraki slowed down the progress of the All Progressives Congress (APC). Mohammed said this on Wednesday while briefing state house correspondents after the weekly federal executive council (FEC) meeting presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari at the council chamber of the presidential villa in