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According to him, the Bello-led administration has within its six months in office paid the six months salaries to workers in the state.
“Government has never said there were no issues with some people accessing their salaries. But such issues are being handled by the authorities concerned,” he said

Abubakar made the appeal when Richard Edet, the Nokia Managing Director, Nigeria Customer Operations, paid her a courtesy call in Abuja on Thursday

“CAS rejects the claims/appeal of the Russian Olympic Committee and 68 Russian athletes,” CAS said in a statement that backed the right the International Association of Athletics Federations to suspend the Russian athletics federation

The state Commissioner for Information, Comrade Muhammad Garba, disclosed this while briefing newsmen on the outcome of the 52nd State weekly Executive Council meeting, held at the Aminu Kano Lodge, Abuja

Captain Ikedichi Iweha, the spokesman of the Joint Task Force, told the News Agency of Nigeria that the government had to impose the curfew to forestall further bloodshed in the area

It, however, said African governments must take action to prevent rapid debt growth from becoming a crisis as experienced in the late 1980s and 1990s

In the suit marked NICN/AK/13/2016 filed at the Akure Division of the Court, Olaiya averred that the punishment meted out to him by the administration was done out of malice

“Federal Government has always been paying its salaries and there is no risk whatsoever that there is going to be a situation where the Federal Government will not pay salaries

The Minister of Finance, Kemi Adeosun, announced this in Abuja on Thursday while addressing newsmen at the end of the FAAC meeting
Adeosun attributed the increase in revenue to efficiency in collection by the revenue generating agencies, especially the Federal Inland Revenue Service

The statement quoted the Director, Lagos State Examinations Board, Olufemi Hassan, as saying that over 140,000 pupils registered from both public and registered private schools

Elujoba, an indigene of Ife, emerged on Thursday after defeating Adebayo Lamikanra by 201 to 10 votes cast by the university Senate members.
Lamikanra is also a professor in the Faculty of Pharmacy

Onyeama said there was no credible evidence to prove the allegations of sexual misconduct against the Deputy Chairman of the House Committee on Petroleum Resources (Upstream), Terse Mark-Gbillah (APC-Benue); Samuel Ikon (PDP-Akwa Ibom); and Mohammed Garba-Gololo (APC-Bauchi)

However, the gallant soldiers, basking on the recorded success, returning to their defensive locations, ran into an ambush by a group of Boko Haram terrorists who came to reinforce their fleeing comrades.

It said the corps adopted the deployment of Mobile Courts to major highways for speedy trial of suspected offenders to serve as deterrent to prospective road traffic rules violators

He announced that N500 had been proposed as fare for economy coaches, while those that would travel in business coaches would pay N1,000.
Amaechi said: “We are ready to go

He said the pistol was discovered in a Toyota Camry Solara with Chassis No 4TIFA38P46U065280, adding that another Toyota Matrix with a Chassis No 2TILE4EE08C013249 was also intercepted along with the Toyota Camry Solara

The statement said the conference intended to explore the role that all parties could play to battle with economic downturn arising from the fall in the international price of crude oil

Jibrin also called on the Minority Leader, Leo Ogor, and the Chief Whip to step down for their involvement ‎in wasteful projects in the 2016 Budget.
Dogora had on Wednesday removed Jibirin as the Chairman of the House Committee on Appropriation over alleged budget padding.

The News Agency of Nigeria has N1.6 billion; Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria, N9.1 billion; Nigerian Television Authority, N6.9 billion; and Central Bank of Nigeria N420.7 million

Minjibir said though the proposal was a welcome idea, it should be handled in such a way that it would not affect the monthly income of the ordinary civil servants