The President’s aircraft landed at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja at about 4:35pm, where he was received by senior government officials, including: his Chief of Staff, Alhaji Abba Kyari, and the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Alhaji Musa Bello.
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Julie Okah-Donli, the Director-General, National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons, said of the over N1 billion allocated to the agency for capital expenditure, only N135 million was released.
The Chairman of the Committee, Olanrewaju Layode, threatened to evoke section 129 of the Nigerian Constitution, which gives the legislature the power to subpoena anyone who disregards it.
Delivering judgment in a case instituted by a human rights activist, Barrister Kanmi Ajibola, challenging the legality of the State of Osun Land use charge Law, Justice Yinka Afolabi ruled that the law and its makers were unknown to the 1999 Constitution.
The Governor spoke at the 25th grand presentation ceremony of the Nigeria Media Merit Awards, held at the Muson Centre, Onikan, Lagos State through the Secretary to the State Government, Tunji Bello.
Okebukola, also a former Executive Secretary, National Universities Commission, gave the advice at the 9th Convocation ceremony of Crawford University.
Reports say the 57-year-old lawmaker, a preacher and a Republican, shot himself on a bridge in Mt. Washington, southeast of Louisville.
The Principal, Ikoyi Prisons School, Idris Ibikunle, disclosed this to the News Agency of Nigeria on Thursday in Lagos.
Buratai gave the assurance in Ibadan, Oyo State at the closing ceremony of the 2017 Chief of Army Staff Annual Conference.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the council’s electricity supply was disconnected by Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company in 2014 over indebtedness.
Nigeria’s position was delivered by Ambassador Babatunde Nurudeen, the Permanent Representative of Nigeria to ECOWAS at the UN General Assembly Debate on ‘Question of Equitable Representation on and Increase in the Membership of the Security Council.
The Federal Government made this known in a circular dispatched to Ministries, Departments and Agencies through office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha, in Abuja on Thursday.
Mnangagwa, 75, became leader of the southern African nation in November after the military and ruling ZANU-PF turned against Robert Mugabe, who had ruled the country for 37 years and was seen grooming his wife Grace to succeed him.
He said: “It will be self-nomination. Of course, I hope for support of those political forces, regardless of the way they are organised in the country, parties, public organisations, which share my view of the country’s development and trust me.
According to information made available by the commission set up by the Kaduna State Government under the leadership of Governor Nasir el-Rufai, over 1,300 persons died during a face-off between the Nigerian Army and the Shia sect members in December 2015
MURIC expressed shock over the development and the “wanton waste of life and the desperation to assassinate the EFCC boss”
The public hearing on the Bill is formally organised and widely advertised by the House Committee on Civil Society Organizations and Development Partners, under the chairmanship of Hon. Peter Akpatason, and it is slated for Wednesday and Thursday at the House of Representatives wing of the National Assembly.
Awase said the accused and two others, who had yet to be apprehended, assaulted two workers of Ikeja Electric, John Oluwole and Uwaoman Ibiam.
He said: “It is high time for people in the communities support the military by providing useful information on suspicious persons in their respective communities.
The governor spoke on Wednesday evening in Ibadan while receiving Adams, who was in his office on a courtesy call.