The Minister of Transport, Rotimi Amaechi has commended President Muhammadu Buhari for finally assenting the electoral Bill into Law.

A former governor of Ekiti state, Chief Segun Oni has accused the All Progressives Congress-led in the state of imposing strange and new tax policies on residents to raise money for the June 18 governorship election in the state.

House of Representatives Committee on Public Accounts has resolved to report some ministries and head of agencies to President Muhammadu Buhari for refusing to appear and answer the audit queries from the office of the Accountant General of the Federation.

THE Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, Oyo state, has warned members of the state chapter of Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria, IPMAN, against selling above the official pump price of N162 per litre, threatening to shut down any erring petro station in the state.

A traditional ruler and eight other mourners have been reportedly killed during a burial ceremony by armed bandits suspected to be loyalists of the later Terwase Agwaza alias ‘Gana’ at Imande Mbakenge, Mbache Council Ward of Katsina-Ala Local Government Government Area, LGA, of Benue State.

AT least, six persons were, weekend, killed and six others sustained various degrees of injuries in a lone vehicular accident around the Obasanjo Farms area of the Ughelli/Asaba Expressway, Delta State.

THE National Vice Chairman of the Inter-Party Advisory Council, IPAC, Maxwell Mgbudem has described the signing of the Electoral Act Amendment Bill into law, by President Muhammadu Buhari as the best legacy he can bequeath Nigerians.

THE Senate has asked the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Uyo,  Professor Nyaudoh Ndaeyo to recover N635.7 million overpaid to the staff of the institution in 2017.

A Presidential aspirant for the 2023 Election 2023, Dumebi Kachikwu has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to urgently evacuate Nigerians, including over 5,600 students, now trapped in Ukraine as a result of the invasion of the country by Russia.

Former Edo state Commissioner of Information, Prince Kassim Afegbua has taken exception to a remark credited to ex-Vice President, Atiku Abubakar that he will always get the  Presidential ticket of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.

THE Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities, SSANU, weekend said that it will soon shut down universities as a result of the inability of the federal government to honour the Memorandum of Action, MoA, it signed with the union.

Ahead of the 2023 general election, a pro-Igbo organisation, AlaIgbo Development Foundation, ADF, has tasked Igbo leaders to remain firm and focus on their demand for Igbo extraction of Nigeria President.

The Independent National Electoral Commission INEC has declared Mr Mayokun Lawson Alade of the All Progressives Congress, APC the winner of the Akure North and South federal constituency bye-election held on Saturday.

The Arewa Youth Consultative Forum(AYCF) has called on prominent Nigerians to intercede in the misunderstanding between the office of the Director of Protocol, Alhaji Isa Bayero and the management of Peace Air “for peace to reign, once and for all”.

One of the singers, Zinolesky, who was reportedly arrested and placed in custody by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, has lamented the deteriorating state of the county, saying “There’s no joy for the country any more.”