Lagos Council Poll: When will it be?
When is Lagos State going to hold its much delayed local government elections? That is the question that is now troubling many political stakeholders given the dithering procrastination of the authorities to conduct elections to replace the last set of elected council officials whose term in office ended in 2014.
NJC fires 2 judges, 2 others to refund 10 months’ pay
The National Judicial Council, NJC, yesterday, sacked Justice O. Gbajabiamila of Lagos State High Court and Justice Idris M. J. Evuti of the Niger State High Court for judicial misconduct.
Prosecution disowns exhibits against Saraki
ABUJA—The prosecution witness against Senate President, Bukola Saraki, and Economic and Financial Commission’s operative, Mr. Michael Wetcas, yesterday disowned the documents tendered against him, saying most of the petitions were filed in 2012, while his investigating team was constituted in 2014.
Solution to Africa’s security challenges lies within —Obasanjo
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo, yesterday, said the solution to security challenges across Africa lay within the continent because it was well placed to provide innovative solutions.
705,352 apply for 10,000 Police jobs
ABUJA — Barely three weeks after the Police Service Commission, PSC, opened the portal for applications for 10,000 vacancies approved by the Federal Government, the commission has received 705,352 applications.
Badeh: Why I made conflicting statements – Witness
Air Commodore Salisu Abdullahi Yushau, retd, the star witness in the ongoing trial of the former Chief of Defence Staff, Air Chief Marshal Alex Badeh, yesterday, admitted that he made conflicting statements against the defendant.
2 children, 8 passengers burnt to death in Lagos auto crash
Two children and eight other passengers were Monday night burnt to death as 12 others suffer severe burns after a saloon car and commercial bus collided and burst into flames at Iyana Yafin, Badagry Local Government, Lagos State.
FG to axe states over non-remittance of taxes
SOME of the 36 states of the federation that failed to remit taxes to the Federal Government in the past five years may face stiff sanctions, including forfeiture of their monthly federation allocations.
SYNAGOGUE: Court remands engineers
Justice Lateef Lawal-Akapo of an Ikeja High Court, yesterday remanded the two engineers that constructed the collapsed seven-story guest house of the Synagogue Church of All Nations (SCOAN) in prisons.
FUEL SCARCITY: We owe foreign creditors $1bn— Marketers
Fuel scarcity may last a long time as marketers have stopped importation due to a $1 billion debt burden.
$2.1bn arms probe: Don’t try Dasuki in secret, court tells FG
ABUJA — Abuja Division of the Federal High Court, yesterday, declined to allow the Federal Government try the former National Security Adviser, NSA, Col. Sambo Dasuki (retd) secretly.
