A Makurdi High Court on Monday restrained the new Speaker, Benue House of Assembly (BNHA), Mr Titus Uba, from conducting sittings.

The Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, on Monday visited victims of the failed Igarra bank robbery incident in Akoko Edo Local Government Area of the state, which claimed the lives of six persons, including three members of the robbery gang.

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The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has said that the silence by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) over the alleged discovery of thousands of its Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) at the private residence of President Muhammadu Buhari’s kinsman, the sacked Director General of the Department of State Services, Lawal Daura, has indicted the commission and placed a huge doubt over its integrity and capacity to conduct a free and fair election.

The highly capitalised stocks across sectors on Monday impacted significantly to drag down the Nigerian Stock Exchange, NSE All Share Index, ASI by 0.13 percent to extend downtrend in the market to seven straight sessions.

Two former All Progressive Congress, APC, Senators, Rafiu Adebayo and Isa Misau, on Monday, approached the Abuja Division of the Federal High Court, asking it to abort any attempt to forcefully impeach the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki from office without recourse to due process of the law.

The Nigerian Army has said that its personnel will be on standby to forestall possible violence in the Port Harcourt III state constituency bye-election slated for Aug. 18.

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The Governor of Edo State, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, has charged senior appointees in his administration to adopt innovative solutions to solve problems in their various sectors in order to deliver on set goals.

The National Assembly will not reconvene on Tuesday, spokesman of the House of Representatives, Mr. Abdulrazak Namdas said.

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and Seplat Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) have signed five agreements to expedite the development of a project aimed at delivering about 3.4 billion standard cubic feet of gas per day by 2020.

The Inspector General of Police, IGP Ibrahim  Idris, has ordered a befitting burial for the four policemen killed in an ambush by suspected kidnappers at the weekend in Kaduna.

A Human Rights lawyer, Mr Frank Tietie, has advised that  the seat of the Senate President, Dr Bukola Saraki, be declared vacant since he had defected to another party.

Worried by the reports making round in the media that the Department of State Services, DSS, recovered a huge sum of money and weapons in the reportedly searched house of ex-DSS boss, Mr. Lawal Daura, the agency on Monday issued a statement that distanced it from the report.

In a bid to enhance Nigeria’s race towards self-sufficiency in agricultural production, critical players in the agricultural space converged between July 30th and 31st at the Sheraton Hotels and Towers, Abuja to deliberate on mechanisms for improved productivity in the sector, particularly in light of Nigeria’s frontline role in the African food security equation.