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The ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, may have bowed to the intense pressure from governors and politicians from the North Central geopolitical zone over the adoption of Femi Gbajabiamila as the Speaker of the incoming 9th House of Representatives. Already, three lawmakers from the zone are in the race to succeed Speaker Yakubu Dogara. They are Mohammed Bago from Niger State, Idris Wase, the current Deputy Majority Leader from Plateau State and John Dyegh from Benue State who is likely to formerly declare his interest on Wednesday at the National Assembly. At the moment, Bago’s candidacy is gathering momentum as…

A former Nigerian Senate President, Senator Ken Nnamani has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to implement the recommendation of the Mohammed Uwais Committee report on the nation’s electoral system. Nnamani who made the plea, Wednesday, in his keynote address at the third Oronto Douglas Memorial Dialogue in Abuja noted, “It is obvious that the Uwais Report represents a high point in the search for an electoral system that will suit Nigeria’s peculiar circumstances. “The eminent members of that committee proposed many innovations that could restore credibility and fairness to our electoral system. Unfortunately, many of these innovative proposals were not…

The Federal Government has approved the some of N100 billion for the completion of sections 1 to 4 of the East West highways finalisation project. Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Pastor Usani Uguru Usani stated this at a meeting with the Host Communities of Nigeria Producing Oil and Gas, HOSTCOM, led by its National Chairman, Chief Style Tamaranebi, in Abuja, Wednesday. It will be recalled that the findings from a Presidential Inter-Ministerial team on assessment tour of Sections 1 to 4 of the East West Road from Warri in Delta State to Oron in Akwa Ibom State, in the year…

R. Kelly, the Grammy award-winning singer, who stays in his home state of Illinois, raked in $22,000 (N7,917,580) by showing his face at a nightclub and hanging out for an hour. Despite the multiple charges of sexual abuse facing him,  the embattled singer came out of hiding last Saturday for a paid club appearance at the Dirty South Lounge in Springfield, Illinois, where he interacted with the small crowd and belted out the opening line to his hit song “Bump N’ Grind.” According to earlier media reports, Kelly, RnB star, took home $20k (N7,197,800) and paid his booking agent $2k…

Dementia has increased astronomically in Nigeria by 400 per cent in  the last two decades, a study published by the University of Edinburgh, Scotland,  in the Journal of Global Health Reports, has shown. Dementia is a broad category of brain diseases that cause a long-term and often gradual decrease in the ability to think and remember that is great enough to affect a person’s daily functioning. The global epidemic that has been found to occur more in low-and-middle-income countries is closely linked to ageing. It is estimated that about 47.5 million people are living with dementia globally, with over two-thirds…

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has hailed Monday’s verdict of the Supreme Court, which struck out the ill-conceived suit seeking the nullification of the Governorship, National Assembly and State Assembly elections which held in the state. The party said in a statement by its spokesman, Kola Ologbondiyan, Tuesday, that “The decision of the Supreme Court in striking out the All Progressives Congress, APC’s attempts to reopen the issue of its already nullified primaries in Rivers State has reinforced the confidence Nigerians repose in it to protect our hard-earned democracy. “This defeated attempt at abuse of court process has further exposed…

The Organised Private Sector has been charged to help in commercializing viable inventions and innovations in the country. Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu, Minister of Science and Technology made the call when an inventor, Dr. Roland Amadi, the inventor of Iwu Crystal Ceiling Board, ICCB, presented his invention to the Minister in his office in Abuja. Onu affirmed that the Federal Government will continue to encourage Nigerian Inventors and Innovators in a bid to put in place a science and innovation driven economy. He noted that the government has a programme that encourages inventors all over the country by giving financial grants to…

The Kaduna state police command, Tuesday, said 21 persons were killed while 50 cows were rustled in an attack by armed bandits in Banono and Anguwan Aku in Kajuru local government area of the state The State Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Yakubu Sabo, said three other persons were injured while ten houses were burnt by the bandits, who he said “came in large numbers on motor bikes”. No arrest has been made. Sabo said the said incident happened on April 8, at about 0930Hours. “We received a distress call that a group of armed men in large number on…

The Nigeria Police Force, Delta State Command says it has apprehended a notorious car snatcher and dealer of stolen vehicles. They are Victor Nele- car snatcher and Abraham Dafe- dealer of stolen vehicles. In a statement issued in Warri by DSP Onome Onovwakpoyeya, the Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) of the Command,  said the suspected robber snatched a Toyota Camry car from his victim at gun point on August 9, 2018 at Ozoro junction in Delta. “On Aug. 9, 2018, a Toyota Camry car with number plates: AG805LEH was snatched from its owner, Bright Ngbeken at Ozoro Junction, Oleh at…

The House of Representatives panel probing National Pension Commission, PenCom, Tuesday, grilled the management team of the apex regulatory body over alleged missing N38 billion released to it by the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN. For more than three hours the Ehiozuwa Agbonnayinma (APC, Edo) led ad-hoc committee grilled the management team for more than three hours. Representative of the acting Director-General of Pencom Mr Olohinmi Lana had an uphill task responding to the many questions of the panellists. Chairman during the probe said that the committee had requested for account statements of the commission, minutes of its 46th board…