Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State, yesterday joined hundreds of lawyers and judges to proffer solution to delay in justice administration in Lagos State and Nigeria at large.

BY JOHNBOSCO AGBAKWURU ABUJA—THE Senate yesterday slammed Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State over his proposed Identification Card issuance for the people of Northern extraction living in the state, following alleged infiltration of the state by the Boko Haram sect. The Police in Imo State had recently discovered bombs allegedly planted in a Pentecostal Church […]

Alarmed by the furore over a N2.4 billion fertiliser scam currently rocking the Federal Ministry of Agriculture, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, yesterday, invited top officials of the ministry for questioning over their role in the controversial deal.

Three transport groups in Imo State have given the state government seven days within which to stop all illegal extortion of their members by agencies of government or face violent demonstration and withdrawal of services from all the routes in the state.
The groups include General Goods Transporters Association of Nigeria, GGTAN, Nigeria Lorry Drivers Association, NILODA and Heavy Duty Truck Drivers Association, HDTDA

The Enugu State government has described as false and mischievous, media reports claiming that the government was involved in the recent elections of the Enugu-USA, an organisation formed by Enugu State indigenes in the United States.

MOVED by renewed bombings in the nation’s capital, with massive killings and wanton destruction of property by members of the Islamic Boko Haram sect, Minister of the Federal Capital Territory Administration, FCTA, Abuja, Senator Bala Mohammed, yesterday ordered that all the six area council chairmen in the territory should immediately begin the registration of all aliens in their respective area councils.

Government yesterday disclosed that it has spent N1.47trillion on 184 roads across the six geo-political zones in the country.
The Minister of Works, Mr. Mike Onolememen, said in Abuja that some of the roads, which he described as death traps, inherited by President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration, were now in good conditions.

The Nigeria Police Force has described as misleading a report credited to All Progressives Congress, APC, to the effect that the force colluded with the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to ensure its victory at the just concluded governorship election.

The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, yesterday, cleared the fog on the circumstance surrounding the whereabouts of Osun State Resident Electoral Commissioner, REC, Ambassador Rufus Akeju, saying he had been requested to proceed on leave of absence not outright removal as had been widely speculated.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has begun investigating the former University of Nigeria, Nsukka, UNN, Vice Chancellor, Professor Bartho Okolo and some of the top officials who worked with him over alleged financial matters.