Presidency, National Assembly should work together
Working relations between the legislative and executive branches of the Federal Government has, most of times in the past eighteen years of our renascent democracy, been tempestuous, with the President Olusegun Obasanjo years being the most notorious.
Fake Naira mostly used in markets— NOIPolls
Fake Naira notes are mostly used in markets, a new study by NOIPOlls has revealed.
Court orders police to exhume corpse of kidnap suspect who died in detention
A Delta State high court sitting in Sapele has ordered the Police to exhume, for a joint post-mortem examination, the remains of a 41-year-old mechanic and father of four, Mr. Samson Efe, who the police buried after he allegedly slumped and died in the cell, November 18 last year, without the knowledge of his family.
Fake lawyer with 7 years ‘experience’ docked
A 57-year-old man, Emmanuel Ojo, was arraigned yesterday before an Ibadan magistrate’s court for practising as a lawyer for seven years without having relevant qualification.
Will you be the mouse, the fox, or the tiger? Time to decide
Believing in Nigeria comes at a terrible cost to one’s sanity. Everywhere one turns one sees injustice, chaos, wrong glorified as right and one wonders, is this it? Is this the best we can do as a country? The best people hardly get the job in Nigeria, which is why our national fortunes have been so poor.
3 allegedly assault electricity firm staff
Magistrate Oluwafunke Sule-Hamzat of an Ogudu magistrate’s court, Lagos, has remanded three men in Ikoyi Prisons custody for allegedly assaulting staff of Ikeja Electricity Distribution Company, while they were performing their official duties.
Contributory pension scheme’s benefits excite Edo
THE introduction of Contributory Pension Scheme, CPS, to Edo State by Governor Godwin Obaseki is exciting workers and other stakeholders.
Pensioners get paid four months after verification – PTAD
FOLLOWING complaints of unpaid benefits by government pensioners and mismanagement of pensions funds in Nigeria, the Federal Government in 2014, set up the Pensions Transitional Arrangement Directorate, PTAD, under Federal Ministry of Finance to oversee the issues of retired federal pensioners who are not in the Contributory Pension Scheme. At present, PTAD is going round the country to verify federal government pensioners.
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Hotel cleaner accused of stealing lodger’s N230,000
A 32-year-old hotel cleaner, Veronica Lawrence, who allegedly stole a lodger’s 550 euros (N230,000), was, yesterday, charged before an Igbosere magistrate’s court in Lagos.
No part of N-Delta’ll be ignored —Nddc
Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, has said that it has no intention to shut out any ethnic group from its development plans in the region.
