A commercial bus yesterday ran over six primary school pupils, leaving two girls dead and four others seriously injured at Andaza village in Kiyawa Local Government Area of Jigawa State.

By  Emmanuel Aziken Abuja—The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC,  is to take primary role in the prosecution of indicted political office holders under proposals adopted by the Senate that stripped the Independent and Corrupt Practices and other related Offences Commission, ICPC, of that duty. The Senate’s move came at the commencement of deliberations on […]

By Olasunkanmi Akoni & Monsur Olowoopejo LAGOS — As part of the effort to reduce the high rate of unemployment in Lagos State, Governor Babatunde Fashola has launched a job registration website portal for graduates and undergraduates in the state. Fashola, while launching the website yesterday at the Lagos State auditorium, Ikeja, said: “The website […]

A former employee of the National Drug Law Agency, NDLEA, Mrs. Udoka Tochukwu, yesterday, accused the agency of terminating her employment on her refusal to terminate her pregnancy.

By Abdulwahab Abdulah Lagos — OFFICIALS of federal and states Ministry of Justice in the country yesterday  met to review the  problems bedeviling the sector and ways to solve them, saying “the time is now for the country to harmonise positions on different justice sector reforms to reduce unnecessary delay in the criminal delivery system. […]

MEMBERS of the True Face of Lagos group, yesterday, at the Lagos State House of Assembly presented a letter of retraction of the allegations against the lawmakers to the Speaker, Mr Adeyemi Ikuforiji, claiming that they lacked evidence to back the allegation.

Lagos—All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA has criticised the ruling of a Federal High Court,  Lagos on Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC’s competence to conduct elections. Mr Nkem Lemchi, Lagos State Secretary of APGA, told newsmen in Lagos that the nation’s primary concern should be how the Justice Mohammad Uwais’ committee report on electoral reforms could […]

By Demola Akinyemi Ilorin — The Nigeria Labour Congress NLC, has tasked the Acting President, Dr Goodluck Jonathan, on the need to urgently revolutionise education in the country, to ensure mass qualitative education for all. The vice president of the union, Comrade Issa Aremu, made the call yesterday in Ilorin at the maiden stakeholders’ conference, […]

FORMER Group Executive Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, Dr Chris Ogienwonyi has attributed the persistent fuel scarcity in the nation to the alleged failure of the Federal Government to employ capable hands to man the oil industry.

The House of Representatives would today start a two-day public hearing on a bill seeking to amend Section 145 of the 1999 constitution.