The Senate will allow the embattled acting chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ibrahim Magu, defend the budget of the agency irrespective of outstanding issues concerning his confirmation, Vanguard has learned.

Federal Road Safety Commission’s mobile court, yesterday, in Port Harcourt, sanctioned about 15 commercial buses for failing to comply with the deadline to install speed limit devices in their vehicles.

The political stalemate in Ondo State House of Assembly deepened yesterday making the 2017 budget expected to be presented to members by the state governor, Dr Olusegun Mimiko not to hold.

IF the Federal Ministry of Education concurs to the proposed initiative of the Minister of Science and Technology, Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu, to introduce indigenous languages in teaching of mathematics and sciences in primary schools, it will see pupils learning in their mother tongues.

No doubt, Nigeria is undergoing one of its toughest times in her recent history. Just yesterday, Nigeria was clad with the garments of oil boom or excess petrodollars resources. There was enough for everybody or sector of the economy to blossom.

To many ears in Nigeria, it initially sounded like a jingle on radio or television sets in homes. To many souls, it was just mere propaganda. To opposing politicians, it was another gimmick by the Nigerian Army of President Muhammedu Buhari (PMB) to downplay reality and shore-up its public image.

Federal Road Safety Commission, FRSC, yesterday said it had started impounding commercial vehicles that do not have the Speed Limiting Device, noting that the enforcement would get to private vehicles soon.

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LEADERSHIP of Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has indicated that it will not abandon the victims of January 20, 2017 pro-Trump inauguration rally in Port Harcourt Rivers State but will settle the hospital bills of the victims and also pay the funeral expenses of the deceased.
The organisation equally indicated in a statement made available to newsmen that they would take care of the families of the fallen IPOB members as a result of the pro-Trump rally.

A three-man robbery gang engaged a team of policemen from Ogijo Division, Ogun State, in a gun battle that lasted 10 minutes, Tuesday, in its bid to escape being arrested.

The Chief Judge of Imo State, Hon. Justice Paschal Nnadi, has said that the bandits who stormed the Owerri High Court, “obviously understudied the terrain and understood the areas of weakness before perfecting their plan.”

THE verbal war between Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State and his Anambra State counterpart, Chief Willie Obiano, took another dimension yesterday, with Governor Obiano telling Okorocha to keep quiet when serious governors are talking because he (Okorocha) has nothing to offer.

Nigeria is set to commence the full implementation of the open contracting processes, aimed at entrenching transparency in public procurement, as the Federal Government said that the open contracting portal is scheduled for opening at the end of the first quarter of 2017.

The Nigerian Army has court-martialed two soldiers for manslaughter and desertion, while fighting Boko Haram insurgency and terrorism under Operation Lafiya Dole in the North-East of the country.

Five officials of the United Nations, the National Boundary Commission and Adamawa State Ministry of Land and Survey have been confirmed killed, while on a delineation mission to the border towns between Adamawa and the Republic of Cameroon.