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As protest by some workers under the aegis of Association of Civil Servants of Nigeria and Medical and Health Workers Union of National Health Insurance Scheme, NHIIS prevented Prof. Usman Yusuf, their Executive Secretary from resuming duty entered day two, the Presidency and House of Representatives have waded in to restore peace and order to the crisis-ridden scheme. On Monday, the workers had blocked Yusuf from gaining entrance to the office on what they perceived as double standard by the Federal Government while their colleagues of the Nigeria Civil Service Union in support of Yusuf, mobilised themselves and countered the…

The total number of eligible voters in the six geo-political zones in Nigeria for the 2019 general elections as registered by Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) is as follows: SOUTH EAST Abia 1,481,191 Anambra 1,758,220 Enugu 1,301,185 Imo 1,611,715 Ebonyi 876,249 Total 7,028,560 SOUTH WEST Lagos 6,247,845 Ogun 1,869,326 Osun 1,293,967 Ondo 1,588,975 Ekiti 750,753 Oyo 2,577,490 Total 14,298,356 SOUTH SOUTH Edo 1,412,225 Delta 1,900,055 Bayelsa 472,389 Akwa Ibom 1,714,781 Rivers 2,419,057 C/Rivers 1,018,550 Total 8,937,057 NORTH CENTRAL Benue 1,415,162 Kogi 1,215,405 Kwara 1,115,665 Nassarawa 1,224,206 Niger 721,478 Plateau 1,983,453 Total 7,675,369 NORTH EAST Adamawa 1,714,860 Bauchi 1,835,562 Borno 2,730,368…

Bukola Saraki, President of the Senate, has expressed worry over the continued delay by President Muhammadu Buhari to assent the Petroleum Industry Governance Bill into law. The 10 year-old Petroleum Industry Governance Bill was passed by the National Assembly in March 2018, and transmitted to President Muhammadu Buhari for his assent. The leadership of the National Assembly sent the harmonised PIGB to President Buhari on Tuesday, July 3 for his assent. However, the President withheld assent to the harmonised Bill and communicated decline of the assent to the National Assembly on August 29, 2018. Meantime, Buhari is doubling as the…

It was black Tuesday as 18 members of National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) reportedly lost their lives in an auto crash at Mowe Town in Obafemi-Owode local government area of Ogun State, South-west zone of Nigeria. Straightnews gathered that the corps members were among the 30 passengers including a driver who perished in a commercial bus they were travelling from Kaduna to Lagos. A Twitter user @Lola_josh who shared the report wrote: 18 corpers lost their lives this early morning sad. They were 30 passengers, they all lost their lives including the driver. 18 corpers and other passengers including the…

The All Progressives Congress generated N12.635 billion from the sale of its Presidential, Senate and House of Representatives expression of interest and nomination forms for the recently concluded APC primaries held in the country. SUNDAY PUNCH arrived at the figures after computing the cost of the forms and multiplying it by the number of aspirants who paid for and collected same to participate in the primaries. Only President Muhammadu Buhari was supported to collect the forms to contest the presidential primary. The president’s supporters were said to have paid N45 million to obtain the forms on his behalf. Governorship aspirants…

The Department of State Services, Monday, described as fake news, the claim that five operatives of the agency aided and abetted the embattled leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, to escape the country when the military swooped on his home in Abia State. A statement by Mr. Peter Afunanya, the Public Relations Officer of the DSS, said the service had never and would never assist any individual or illegal group trying to dismember Nigeria to get away with justice. Afunanya said: “The attention of the Department of State Services (DSS) has been drawn to the malicious report…

Three prominent Nigerian leaders have called for adequate funding of the National Assembly. President of the Senate, Dr. Bukola Saraki, speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, and former speaker and Sokoto State governor, Aminu Tambuwal, who spoke at the convocation ceremony of the National Institute for Legislative and Democratic Studies, NILDS/University of Benin Post Graduate Programmes for the 2015/2016 and 2016/2017 academic sessions held at the National Assembly Monday, said lawmakers in the eight assembly, had committed themselves to improving the lives of Nigerians. They also harped on adequate funding of both arms of legislature because of the…

President of the Nigerian Association for Energy Economics, Professor Wumi Iledare, Monday, stated that cheap petroleum products prices is negatively affecting the country and is also making the country’s economic inefficient. Addressing newsmen in Abuja, as part of activities to mark the Fourth NAEE World Energy Day Celebration, Iledare warned that the energy sector cannot be governed with patronage and sentiment, adding that doing so might have dire consequences for the country. He explained that the Federal Government can intervene in the petroleum products market instead of regulating the industry and fixing prices. Some of the intervention measures, according to…

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Monday, alleged attempt to scuttle the ongoing trial of former National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Chief Olisa Metuh. The agency made the allegation on a day it persuaded the Abuja Division of the Federal High Court to reject an application that sought the postponement of further hearing on the criminal proceeding it initiated against Metuh, till November 29. The request was contained in an affidavit of fact that was filed before the trial court by counsel to the 2nd defendant in the case, Chief Tochukwu Onwugbufor, SAN, who is…

A former governor of defunct Kaduna State, Alhaji Balarabe Musa, Monday, urged Nigerians not to gamble with the idea of returning power to the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in 2019. Musa said that the country would be worse off if the main opposition party was allowed to come back, saying the PDP had ruled the country for 16 years before 2015 and all they brought to Nigerians was misery and underdevelopment. He said that the opposition party almost completely ruined the economy with massive corruption and plunder while in power. The governor said though all was not well with the…