The probe of the former Chief of Defence Staff, Air Chief Marshall Alex Badeh, did not proceed yesterday as scheduled.

IN what appears like a no-going back stance on the emergence of a new Olubadan of Ibadanland, Governor Abiola Ajimobi has described the likely successor to the throne, High Chief Saliu Akanmu Adetunji as a divine arrangement that is not amenable to change.

A Magistrate Court sitting in Ado-Ekiti yesterday ordered the State Commissioner of Police to arrest former State Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Dr. Temitope Aluko over alleged perjury.

Agents of government have resumed their push for the use of pension fund to finance infrastructure development in the country.
The latest of such push came from Minister Power, Works and Housing; Babatunde Fashola that the nation’s Pension Fund be used for infrastructural development in Nigeria.

OVER 200 retirees and pensioners bearing placards, yesterday, stormed the office of the state governor, Senator Ben Ayade, to protest the non- payment of their five years gratuity by the state government.

DESPITE the wailing and crying in the Judiciary over the declining budget share for this Third Arm of Government, the Federal Government has proceeded to budget N70 billion for the entire nation’s Judiciary in the 2016 Budget proposals. This is N3billion lower than the 73 billion appropriated for the Judiciary in 2015.

THE Arewa Lawyers Forum, ALF, sev en-man Screening Committee set up to screen candidates for the forthcoming Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, elections in July, in Kaduna, Kaduna State, recommended the former Chairman of the NBA Section on Public Interest and Development Law, SPIDEL, Chief Joe-Kyari Gadzama, SAN, for adoption as the forum’s Presidential candidate in the election

AS the Supreme Court of Nigeria, tomorrow, decides the appeal filed by the Senate president, Dr Bukola Saraki, over his trial at the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT), three knotty issues are primed for adjudication. In recent days the apex court had sprang surprises, which invariably lead to anticipations from Nigerians as to what would be the outcome of the arguments canvassed by both parties on the legality or otherwise of the trial of the Senate president by the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) .

Local government employees, under the aegis of Nigeria Union of Local Government Employees, NULGE, Akwa Ibom State chapter, will today, commence an indefinite strike to protest the state government’s alleged refusal to settle outstanding salaries and emoluments of serving and retired council workers.

Millions of viewers were glued to their television sets last Sunday as 47-year old Gbenga Adesida who was born blind, had his life changed forever. On the same programme just the week before, a lifeline was given to another man who battled an unknown, debilitating disease for several years.

ON Monday, January 25, the Alhaji Hassan Sunmonu-led Reconciliatory Committee, RC, took a major step towards resolving the leadership crisis rocking the NLC by appointing a seven-man panel to address the issue of parallel executives in the 36 states and Abuja.

LAGOS—Nigeria’s failure to attain its true potential was, yesterday, blamed on the lack of core values and the dominance of corruption among the ruling class.

Chelsea captain John Terry began his long goodbye by marshalling his defence to a clean sheet in a 0-0 draw at Watford in the Premier League on Wednesday.

Governor Nyesom Wike Rivers State has described the validation of the elections of Governors Udom Emmanuel of Akwa Ibom and Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia State as the consolidation of the will of the people through the judicial process

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