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The National Identity Management Commission, NIMC, and the Nigerian Immigration Service, NIS, have agreed to commence enforcement of the National Identification Number, NIN, on the new 10-year validity e-passport. President Muhammadu Buhari, had on January 15, 2019, while unveiling the newly enhanced e-passport with a 10-year validity, directed that the NIN, which is issued by the NIMC, be inserted as additional data in the new passports. The Comptroller-General, Nigerian Immigration Service, NIS, Muhammad Babandede, said the federal government has no plans of going back on the April 29 date for the integration of the National Identity Number, NIN, on the…

The Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, has said its parliament was committed towards resolving the recurring crisis between herdsmen and farmer’s within the region. It also described the problem of youth unemployment in the sub-region as a disease, which must be stamped out. Secretary-General of ECOWAS Parliament, John Azumah, who stated this Thursday in an interview with journalists at the end of the Extra Ordinary Session of the ECOWAS Parliament held in Dakar, Senegal, said the parliament as representatives of the people was burdened by the issues herdsmen and farmer’s clashes and other reports of communal violence within…

About 1.9 million Nigerians are living with HIV according to results of the 2018 National HIV/AIDS Indicator and Impact Survey, NAIIS, conducted by the National Agency for the Control of AIDS, NACA, the Federal Ministry of Health, UNAIDS and other international partners. This is even as a new national HIV prevalence of 1.4 percent has been confirmed among Nigerian adults aged 15–49 years. Previous estimates had indicated that over 3 million Nigerians were living with HIV and that the country had a national HIV prevalence of 2.8 percent. Welcoming the news Thursday in Abuja that there are fewer people living…

The Federal Government has inaugurated the inter-ministerial Presidential Inauguration Committee to coordinate activities leading to the inauguration of the President on May 29. Inaugurating the committee yesterday in Abuja, Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF, Boss Mustapha, recalled that about four years ago, the Buhari Aadministration came on board with the promise of Change built on economy, security and anti-corruption. According to him, the government has since 2015 committed itself to working hard to achieve sustainable economic growth, as well as a secure and corruption free nation. He said: “Preparatory to the inauguration of the new administration, the…

Ahead of the inauguration of the 9th Senate, Chairman, Senate Committee on Media and Public Affairs, Senator Aliyu Sabi Abdullahi, APC, Niger North, has allayed fears of Nigerians on possible leadership crisis in the 9th Senate as it was in the 8th. Speaking with journalists shortly after collecting his Certificate of Return from the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, as senator- elect yesterday, Sabi Abdullahi said the required lessons to be learned from the leadership squabbles of the 8th Senate had been learned, and would not repeat itself again. “I was a key player in the leadership configuration of the…

Senator-elect for Kwara Central in the 9th Senate, Dr Ibrahim Yahaya Oloriegbe, yesterday boasted that his performance in the Senate within the next four years would surpass that put up by Senate president, Senator Bukola Saraki, in the last eight years. Dr. Saraki currently represents Kwara Central in the 8th Senate and was defeated by Oloriegbe in the February 23 National Assembly election. Oloriegbe, who spoke yesterday in Abuja after collecting his Certificate of Return from the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, said Saraki, despite attaining the position of Senate presidency in his sojourn in the Senate, has not set…

The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, has decried the deployment of military in the just concluded general elections, describing it as a new low in the country’s electoral history. The NLC in a statement in Abuja, titled, “No Option to Democracy”, signed by its Acting President, Comrade Amechi Asugwuni, stated that the deployment of military to harass political opponents as witnessed in the last elections was a serious setback. Labour also appealed to President Muhammadu Buhari to consider revisiting the Justice Mohammed Uwais Electoral Reform report, adding that implementing the report would reduce the ugly incidence of killing and maiming of…

The Presidential Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Abuja yesterday ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to grant President Muhammadu Buhari and the All Progressives Congress, APC, access to all the electoral materials used for the February 23 presidential election. The Tribunal, in two separate rulings by a three-man panel of Justices of the Court of Appeal, led by Justice Abdul Aboki, ordered the electoral body to forthwith, make available to President Buhari and the APC both used and unused ballot papers it deployed across the 36 states of the federation and the Federal Capital Territory for the purpose of…

The Senate Adhoc Committee on a New National Minimum Wage Bill, 2019, has concurred with the House of Representatives, recommending N30,000 as the accepted minimum wage for the Nigerian workers, against the N27,000 proposed by the Federal Government. The committee, which is chaired by the Deputy Chief Whip of the Senate, Senator Francis Alimikhena, All Progressives Congress, APC, Edo North, met yesterday at Senate Room 431 New Building, concurred with members of the House of Representatives that had earlier recommended a wage of N30,000. A source told Vanguard yesterday that at the meeting of the committee, the chairman, Senator Alimikhena,…

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has announced that its 2019 Universal Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME, would begin on Thursday, April 11. JAMB also announced that it has fixed Monday, April 1, 2019, for its 2019 mock examination earlier scheduled for Saturday, March 23,2019. JAMB’s Head of Media, Dr Fabian Benjamin, said in a statement yesterday that the change was due to certain circumstances beyond the Board’s control. The statement read: “Candidates who had indicated interest in the mock examination at the point of registration and have since printed their mock examination notification slips need not print another one.…