On the eve of the third year anniversary of the abduction of hundreds of girls in Chibok, Borno State, in 2014, Boko Haram Islamists have reportedly abducted 22 girls and women in two separate raids in northeast Nigeria, residents and vigilantes told AFP on Friday.

AHEAD of the 2019 general elections, the Senate, yesterday, passed amendments to the 2015 Electoral Act empowering the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to use electronic voting for conduct and transmission of results in future elections.

THE battle of wits between the Presidency and the Senate took a new twist, yesterday, as the Senate summoned the Chairman, Presidential Advisory Committee against Corruption, Professor Itse Sagay, SAN, for describing the lawmakers’ actions as childish and irresponsible.

THE Senate, yesterday, drew the battle line with the Presidency as it suspended for two weeks, the screening of 27 persons President Muhammadu Buhari nominated for the office of Resident Electoral Commissioners, RECs.

AN official of an automobile marketing firm yesterday disclosed that the controversial Range Rover SUV whose ownership was ascribed to the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, was actually imported by his company on behalf of an oil major and subsequently sold to the National Assembly.

President Muhammadu Buhari is weighing two options on the fate of Mr. Ibrahim Magu as chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, presidency sources have confirmed to Vanguard.

Whereas the Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria has declared that the latest indicting report from the Department of State Service, DSS, to the Ministry of Justice, on Ibrahim Magu, the embattled Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, is a vindication of its position not to confirm Magu’s appointment, the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, has denied that his office has received any such fresh document.

The Department of State Services, DSS has given further justification for its opinion to the presidency on why the Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC Mr. Ibrahim Magu should not have been confirmed for the position.

The challenges bedevilling the power sector appear worsening as the Transmission Company of Nigeria, TCN, through the daily operational report of the National Control Centre, NCC, yesterday, reported that six power generating companies, GENCOs, failed to generate power in seven days.

THE Senate, yesterday, asked President Muhammadu Buhari to immediately sack the Comptroller-General of Nigeria Customs Service, NCS, Col Hameed Ali (rtd.), because he is too old and unfit to hold public office.