THE Nigerian Liquefied Natural Gas Limited, International Oil Companies, labour and other stakeholders have kicked against the recent amendment of the NLNG Act by the House of Representatives.

Impressed by the manner national team coach Gernot Rohr is going about preparations for the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier in Uyo, former Super Eagles captain and first choice goalkeeper, Peter Rufai has declared that Nigerians should expect a very tough Eagles squad against the Bafana Bafana.

INDICATIONS emerged, yesterday, that Senate and the House of Representatives may today consider and pass the report of the N7,441,175,486,758 Appropriation Bill laid before both chambers last Tuesday .

A total number of 5,500 Nigerians are set to be deported from Mali and Libya, over various migration offences ranging from Hunan trafficking, smuggling of migrants, and non possession of valid travel documents.

THE Federal Government has described the hoopla generated by President Muhammadu Buhari’s letter to the National Assembly, in which he said Vice President Yemi Osinbajo will coordinate the activities of the government in his absence, as a needless distraction.

Governor Nasir el-Rufai of Kaduna State, yesterday, took an unprecedented step as he entered the dock to give evidence at a Kaduna high court in a libel suit he instituted against the publishers of The Union newspapers

THIS Saturday, the more than 1.8 million candidates who registered for the 2017 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations (UTME) will jostle for about 850,000 admission spaces. At the end of the admission process, about 950,000 admission seekers will be left out.

Former Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Professor Chukwuma Soludo, yesterday, said the current leadership of the apex bank should stop playing politics with foreign exchange and monetary policy.

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Nigeria’s Bonny Light and other crude oil grades have risen from $49 per barrel to over $50 per barrel in the global market following a significant drop in the inventories of United States yesterday.

SECURITIES and Exchange Commission, SEC, yesterday, disclosed that it has set aside N5 billion as seed capital for the take off of the proposed Nigerian Capital Market Development Fund, NCMDF. The Commission also warned that it would henceforth prosecute investors using false identity for share subscription.

The National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, yesterday, said that the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, would not record any win in the forthcoming council polls in Lagos State.

IMMEDIATE past governor of Edo state, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole and his wife, lara, yesterday, donated food items and cash to the Internally Displaced Persons, IDP, Camp in Ohogua, Ovia North-East Local Government Area of the state. Oshiomhole said that the task of taking care of IDPs must not only rest on government.

The provisions in section 6 of the Act quoted above derogate from the Attorney-General’s control over all criminal prosecutions vested in him by section 174 of the Constitution (section 211 in the case of the Attorney-General of a State)

In Nigeria, the Attorney-General is the most Senior Minister in the Executive Council of the Federal Government and of the States respectively. He is the only appointed member of the Council specifically mentioned and assigned functions in the Constitution.