House of Representatives, Thursday, mandated its committees on Anti-Corruption and Public Service to investigate the issues of nominal rolls, payroll padding and fake employments in all Ministries, Departments and Agencies, MDAs.

Three drivers on Thursday appeared before an Ikeja Magistrates’ Court in Lagos, charged with beating a police officer. The defendants – Isiaka Toheeb, 24; Saheed Nureni, 29; and Taoheed Adeniyi, 27 – are facing a two-count charge of conspiracy and assault The prosecutor, Insp Mojirade Edeme, told the court that the defendants and others at […]

By Henry Umoru, ABUJA THE Senate, Thursday, rejected productivity allowance allocated to staff of National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, that amounts to N323 million without approval by National Salaries, Income and Wages Commission, NSIWC. According to the Senate, the rejection became imperative because of illegal increment of NAFDAC staff allowance on 2016 Auditor General […]

By Egufe Yafugborhi A High Court in Port Harcourt, Rivers state, has remanded in Police custody, a suspected fake lawyer, Stanley Adjogbe who faces 14 years imprisonment if found guilty. Justice Chinwendu Nwogu ordered remand of Adjogbe pending outcome of investigations into his case after the suspect failed to convince the court and Nigeria Bar […]

Barely few hours after the Boko Haram sect, suspected to be ISWAP group, abducted six staff working with Borno State Ministry of Work with snatching of three trucks and a Hilux van along Chibok-Damboa Road, another 15 people, mostly passengers and motorists, were kidnapped along the same road.