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The Federal Government has applied to the Code of Conduct Tribunal for an arrest warrant for the suspended Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Walter Onnoghen.

Britain’s opposition Labour Party will back a proposal to try to force the government to take “crucial decisions” on its Brexit plans by the middle of March, the party’s Brexit spokesman said on Wednesday.

Most London-based banks moving to the euro area due to Brexit have made “reasonable progress” in preparing the move, European Central Bank director Sabine Lautenschlaeger said on Wednesday.

The concerned lecturers, led by 13 professors and past executive members of ASUU-LASU, made the call at a news briefing on Tuesday at its Ojo campus in Lagos

The Zamfara State Government has donated N60 million to families of victims of the attack on Tudun-Maijatau and Takoka villages in Gusau Local Government Area.

The Resident Electoral Commissioner for Delta, Dr Cyril Omorogbe, on Tuesday reiterated that the Independent National Electoral Commission has zero tolerance to vote buying and other electoral malpractices.

The Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People has formally written to the Hydrocarbon Pollution Remediation Project to notify it of the withdrawal of Legborsi Saro Pyagbara and Prof. Ben Naanen from its Governing Council.

The Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics has suspended its two month old strike.

Barely four days to the Presidential and National Assembly elections, fire on Tuesday gutted two containers housing Smart Card Readers for the conduct of elections at INEC headquarters in Awka, Anambra.

The Nigerian Air Force says it has commenced airlift of Independent National Electoral Commission electoral materials across the country for the conduct of Saturday’s elections.

The Nigerian Bar Association has again called on the executive arm of the Federal Government to discontinue the prosecution of the suspended Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Walter Onnoghen.

A first print, first edition copy of late Chinua Achebe’s premier novel ‘Things Fall Apart’ has been purchased for one million naira.

The Permanent Representative of Nigeria to the United Nations, Prof. Tijjani Muhammad-Bande, has been re-elected Chair of the United Nations Special Committee on Peacekeeping known as C-34.

Femi Esho, the Chairman of Evergreen Musical Company in Shomolu, on Tuesday said that Seun Kuti’s loss at the recent Grammy Awards in Los Angeles, US, would spur him on to do greater works.

The National Open University of Nigeria has appointed retired Brig.-Gen. Sani Usman as Faculty member of its Business School.

The Federal Government on Tuesday promised to complete all ongoing road projects in the South South Zone before the end of 2020.

Prof. Ishaq Akintola, Director, Muslim Rights Concern, has appealed to Nigerians not to adopt a lukewarm attitude towards the forthcoming general election.

The marathon, which was initially billed for December 1, 2018, was moved forward due to some logistic reasons that have been sorted out by the organizers.

In further demonstration of his administration’s commitment to the welfare of workers and pensioners, the Ekiti State Governor, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, has approved monthly release of N100 million naira to clear accumulated gratuities of retired…

Each pupil in all public and private schools in Lagos State will have Personal Identification Number as part of reforms to be carried out in education, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, the All Progressives Congress governorship candidate, has said.