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General Ibrahim Babangida, a former Military Head of State, Goodluck Jonathan, Alhaji Shehu Shagari and Chief Ernest Shonekan, ex-Presidents were conspicuously absent at Thursday’s Council of States meeting at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. At the time the meeting started few minutes after 11 a.m. before journalists left the venue only Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, Yakubu Gowon and Abdulsalami Abubakar, three former Heads of State along side President Muhammadu Buhari were at the venue. The meeting, which is the third under the democratic administration of President Buhari, was also attended for the first time by Ayodele Fayose, Ekiti State governor. The Council of States…

Nigeria is ranked 148th country in Corruption Perception Index (CPI) in the world, according to a report by Transparency International (TI). A report released Wednesday by the Global anti-corruption watchdog to mark its 25 years of operations since its establishment in 1995 indicates that corruption was getting worse in Nigeria. While the country scored 27/100 and was ranked 136th in 2016, the latest CPI scores Nigeria 28/100 with 148 out of 180 countries surveyed — a significant 12 place below that of the previous year. This frightening rating has dealt a blow to the President Muhammadu Buhari administration that has…

A man who allegedly strangled his wife to death in their apartment in Agemowo area of Badagry, last December, has appeared before Magistrate court, Lagos for murder. Vanguard learned that police arrested the suspect, Akinyemi Edgar Koja, a bricklayer in an undisclosed area around Lagos Island, where he had taken refuge since the incident occurred. He was Tuesday charged to Magistrate court 12 Ebute Metta for murder from where he was remanded in prison custody by the Magistrate, Mrs Bola Folarin Williams, with the case adjourned to March 28 for hearing. During interrogation, the suspect stated that he carried out the act out of…

More than 20 shops in the building located at Iwebo lane behind Oba Market, Benin City were razed and property worth millions of naira lost over alleged refusal of tenants to pay their rents to the landlord. Mr. Idemudia Obamwonyi is said to have set ablaze the house he inherited from his late father. An eye witness said Idemudia stubbornly stopped those who made attempts to stop the fire insisting that it was better for him to get the house burnt since the tenants refused to pay their rents rather than allow them continue to live in the house. It…

The Supreme Court of Nigeria has fixed April 10 for ruling on the 2014 primary of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Akwa Ibom North East Senatorial District brought before it by Bassey Etim, a former member of House of Representatives against Senator Bassey Albert Akpan. Before now, Etim had challenged the case to Federal High Court, Uyo that he bought PDP form while Akpan did not buy the form and as such he was the party’s duly nominated candidate and winner of the senatorial seat in the 2015 election, not Akpan as it turned to be. The apex court had…

The Nigerian Bureau of Statistics, NBS, Tuesday released telecom industry data statistics for the fourth quarter of 2017, declaring that the sector recorded low porting activities compared to the previous quarter. This is also as the sector recorded an increased active voice subscription by 3.69 percent, against the third quarter of the year. According to the Bureau, incoming and outgoing porting activities in the fourth quarter of 2017, stood at 8,628 and 8,830, representing a decrease of 48.67 per cent and 47.14 per cent respectively over the previous quarter. Meanwhile, 9Mobile was said to have the largest beneficiary for incoming…

Moves by the Senate to separate the Chairman of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN board from the governor of the apex bank, Wednesday, got a boost as a Bill for an Act to amend the CBN Act CAP C4 LFN 2004 and for related matters, 2018 (SB. 448) scaled second reading. With the bill, according to the Senate, the approval of the CBN budget by the National Assembly will then be made compulsory, just as it will also ensure that salaries of CBN staff will be fixed by the Revenue Mobilization and Fiscal Commission, RMAFC. If the Bill scales…

The Transmission Company of Nigeria, TCN, requires N3.85 billion to procure relevant equipment and rehabilitate its six systems that collapsed in January 2018 within nine months. Investigation showed that the equipment include the 1x150mva, 330/132kv T1A Mitsubishi power transformer in Jos which was completely burnt, and will take N850 million to replace. Another major burnt equipment was the 1x30mva, 330/33kv T2 Toshiba transformer at Gusau substation which would require N300 million for a total replacement. Other damaged equipment include: 1x100mva, 330/33kv SPECO power transformer at Ejigbo substation, 1x60mva, 132/33kv ABB power transformer at katampe substation, 1x60mva, 132/33kv power transformer at…

The Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, has condemned in strong terms the wanton killings and insecurity ravaging the country, calling on President Muhammadu Buhari to re-organise the security agencies with a view to injecting new officers with fresh visions. In a statement signed by Pastor Adebayo Oladeji, the Special Assistant, (Media & Communications) to Rev Dr. Samson Olasupo Ayokunle, CAN president, the group frowned on the failure of the security agencies to prevent criminals before they strike. CAN said: “We condemn in strong terms the menace of insecurity challenges occasioned by the incessant killings in the country and we restate…

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Nigeria’s former Minister of Finance, has been appointed into a High Level Group on Governance of the Commonwealth Secretariat. Ben Maloney, Communications Officer, Commonwealth Secretariat, said in a statement that the High Level Group would make recommendations on governance of the Commonwealth Secretariat. The Commonwealth, however, denied that the group was constituted to secretly begin considering who might succeed the Queen as its head. “At their last Summit in Malta, Commonwealth heads of government directed the Secretary-General to form the Group. “Today, members are discussing the scope of the group’s work and the areas of governance it will…