Lagos –  Some socio-cultural pressure groups in the South West on Wednesday held divergent views on the new leadership in the House of Representatives which was against the PDP’s power sharing structure which endorsed Mrs Mulikat  Akande-Adeola  as  speaker. But members of the House of Representatives elected Aminu Tambuwal from the North West as speaker […]

Mr Godwin Emefiele, Managing Director, Zenith Bank Plc, says banks will work with the CBN on its cashless policy to reduce the volume of cash flow in the country.

The FCT administration says it will fly victims of the May 29 bomb blast in Zuba to South Africa next week for rehabilitation.

Gov. Kashim Shettima of Borno has said that his administration is committed to discuss with the Boko Haram sect in spite of increased killings and attacks by its members.

Tor Tiv Alfred Torkula has warned politicians in Benue State to stop making inciting statements that could set the indigenes against one another.

Mr Hussein Labo, Managing Director of Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN), says the low power generation across the country is due to the ongoing maintenance works at Utorogun Gas Plant in Delta State.

There is a possibility of Internet breakdown today as the world celebrate the World IPv6 Day. This could happen due to technicalities that follow the cross over from IPv4 address platform, which runs out this year, to a broader internet address platform, IPv6.

An Assistant Superintendent of Police, Mr. Chris Attah, yesterday, at the on-going trial of an official of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Mr. Davis Ibrahim, told an Ikeja High Court presided over by Justice Olubunmi Oyewole, that the official defrauded a woman, Mrs Augusta Eleshin of N55, 000.

Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State, yesterday, stated that any attempt by intruders to threaten security on the land, sea or air in the state would be met by stiff resistance, saying the state would not condone any act of criminality.

The Central Bank of Nigeria,CBN, yesterday, said that the pilot project for the N150,000 cash limit will begin from Lagos in December.

NON-PAYMENT of allowance and inability of the management of National Assembly to provide office accommodation have forced members of the House of Representatives to embark on a three week recess to enable management adequately prepare for all members.

Former Military President Ibrahim Babangida has commended the House of Representatives for jettisoning the zoning formula as dictated by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, saying the election of Speaker Tambuwal would check the culture of impunity and interference in legislative affairs by the Presidency.

The Federal Commissioner in-charge of Ebonyi State of the National Population Commission, NPC, Chief Fabian Jackson Nwachukwu, and his wife, Ugo, have been killed as a result of injuries they sustained from a ghastly motor accident which occurred along the Abuja-Lokoja road.

The National Assembly complex in Abuja has been overtaken by thousands of people seeking to become legislative aides to members of the just inaugurated seventh National Assembly.

THERE are fears of defection in the troubled Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, members in Ondo State to Labour Party, LP, and Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN.