Finally the 2016 budget controversy is over with the signing of the Appropriation Bill into law by President Muhammadu Buhari last weekend after a four-month delay.

A Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, governorship aspirant for the 2016 election in Edo State, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu, has denied media reports that he was detained by Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, at its Port Harcourt office.

RIVERS State council of Trade Union Congress of Nigeria, TUC, yesterday, rejected Wednesday’s removal of fuel subsidy and hike in fuel price by the Federal Government, warning that the action would worsen the hardship and poverty level in the country.

Mysterious fire early yesterday gutted ‘The Young Shall Grow’ bus terminal/warehouse, located at New Cemetery Road, Onitsha, Anambra State, destroying about ten luxury buses worth over N600 million.

JUSTICE Aliya Nganjiwa of a Federal High Court sitting in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, yesterday, granted the request of the prosecution to take the evidence of Miss Ese Oruru in private at the resumed pre-trial hearing in the trial of Dahiru Yunusa, aka “Yellow”, who is facing a five-count charge of criminal abduction, sexual exploitation an havingd unlawful carnal knowledge of a minor, Miss Ese Rita Oruru.

The on-again-off-again sibling rivalry between the Uba brothers of Anambra State was again brought to focus at the Tuesday State congress of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP where Andy and Chris Uba led parallel factions.

THE Federal Government, Wednesday, announced that it has deregulated the down stream sector of the oil industry. But in the same breath the government said that marketers can sell their products between N135 and N145 per litre of petrol. Just a day after, the PPPRA came out with its price term plate stating that the actual price of petrol should have been N243 per litre. This has raised a fundamental question, is this actually a deregulation or price adjustment?

The Commissioner of Police in Ogun State, Abdulmajid Ali, yesterday, disclosed that the command has transferred suspected kingpins that masterminded the abduction of the former Minister of State for Education, Senator Iyabo Anisulowo, to the Force Headquarters, Abuja.

The Former Acting Chief Executive Officer, CEO, of the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, and the Chairman Commonwealth International Telecommunications Union, ITU Group, Dr. Bashir Gwandu, has urged Fifth Generation, 5G, systems engineers and standards developers to ensure full engagement with key stakeholders around the globe for successful development of 5G standards to avoid the pitfalls of other technologies such as the Wimax and even the 3G.

Minister of Women Affairs and Social Development, Senator Aisha Alhassan, has stressed the need for the implementation of the Child Rights Law and National Gender Policy as part of efforts towards addressing issues affecting children, women and the vulnerable in society.

Lake Chad Research Institute, LCRI, Maiduguri, Borno State, has said the activities of the Boko Haram insurgents stalled the cultivation of over 400 hectares of wheat in Marte Local Government Area and some parts of the north east.

A rights activist and lawyer, Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa, was, yesterday, charged before a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, over alleged lease of a property attached by a court’s order.

By Innocent Anaba Lagos- A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has restrained the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP and its national chairman, Ali Modu Sherrif from conducting any election into the party’s South-west Zonal Executive Committee. Trial judge, Justice Ibrahim Buba also stopped PDP from recognising any such election until the suit is finally determined. […]

SOME of Nigeria’s leading scholars, yesterday, flayed what they described as the distortions in the country’s educational system and proffered recommendations that will reposition it.

The Ooni of Ife, Oba Enitan Ogunwusi on Wednesday disclosed how former President Olusegun Obasanjo facilitated his emergence as the Ooni of Ife.