CHAIRMAN of Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, Lagos Chapter, Apostle Alexander Bamgbola has commended the Federal Government for its war against corruption, urging the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration to go after all treasury looters and “put them where they belong, so that we may have peace in the country.”

Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose Governor Nyesom on Saturday accused President Muhammadu Buhari of mapping ways towards making Nigeria an Islamic nation.

The lawmaker representing Ojo Federal Constituency in the lower legislative chamber, Hon Tajudeen Obasa has lauded President Muhammadu Buhari on the organization of the two-day summit aimed at salvaging the economy and to arrest any further fall of the naira against the dollar.

President Muhammadu Buhari on Saturday concluded the lesser Hajj to end his visit to Saudi Arabia.

See photos of President Muhammadu Buhari, Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi ii,Governor of Osun State , Rauf Aregbesola, Governor of Borno State, Kashim Shettima, National Security Adviser Maj.Gen.Babagana Monguno (Rtd) among other others performing Umra, the lesser Hajj, in Mecca, Saudi Arabia.

ABUJA— THE Senate, yesterday, passed resolutions asking the Federal Government to urgently terminate the 2013 contract between the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, and SystemSpecs.

LAST week’s call by Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, on President Muhammadu Buhari to summon a conference of eggheads to help him chart ways out of our current economic woes was more loaded than met the ordinary eyes. It was a message garbed with uncaccustomed subtlety from Soyinka, who is usually finger-in-your-eye with words when addressing what he perceives as lapses in a regime he does not fancy.

AHEAD of the governorship elections scheduled to hold in Edo and Ondo States this year, the Forum of Registered Political Parties, FRPP, in Edo State has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to immediately reconstitute the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, in view of the recent Supreme Court pronouncement on the use of smart card readers in the conduct of elections in the country.

In the difficult moments of our history, looking precisely at the period of Nigeria’s war of unity 1966-1971, Egypt proved to be a strategic partner from helping to train our military to support with equipment and aircraft maintenance.

The Managing Director, MD, of Capital Oil and Gas, Dr. Ifeanyi Ubah, yesterday, followed up his claim to a magic wand that would firm the Naira to an exchange rate of N200==$1 within 30 days, with fresh claims that he knew those behind the current foreign exchange crisis facing the nation and was ready to name them publicly.

The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has attributed the continued incarceration of its leader and Director of Radio Biafra Mr. Nnamdi Kanu to what it called inexperience on the part of advisers that the All Progressives Congress, APC, led government of President Buhari is surrounding itself with.

These cases went to the Supreme Court until the fourth time in 2015 when God agreed that I will be President.” Clearly, President Buhari was expressing his frustration with the Nigerian judiciary, which has increasingly come under critical fire for surreptitiously allowing hideously corrupt top public officials to escape justice. That said, the virus of corruption has penetrated every aspect of our national life to a debilitating degree, such that only a sustained moral reorientation led by a more scientifically minded improved Nigerian equivalent of Mahatma Gandhi can reverse the situation, in the long run.

The Federal Government has sacked the heads of the six information parastatals under the Ministry of Information and Culture.

Disclosing this, yesterday, Head of the Efficiency Unit, set up by the Ministry of Finance to streamline government overhead expenditure, Patience Oniha, said from the study of government overhead expenditure it carried out between 2012 and 2014, 60 per cent of Federal Government’s overhead expenditure were, on the average, incurred through local and international travels, maintenance, local and international training, welfare, office stationery and consumables, honourarium and sitting allowance, meals and refreshment and books.

LAGOS — At a period refining operations averaged 26 per cent, three of Nigeria’s five refineries received about 9.5 million barrels of crude oil in 2015, but processed about 7.2 million barrels, data from the Ministry of Petroleum Resources have shown.