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Ibrahim Magu, the suspended acting chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), has been released on bail. He was arrested and detained on Monday, July 6, 2020, following a summons by the presidential panel probing his activities in office. More to come…

The House of Representatives on Tuesday asked the Federal Government to reopen schools. Lawmakers made the call amid the rising number of COVID -19 cases in the country and the raging controversy over whether schools should reopen. The House, in a resolution in Abuja, specifically urged President Muhammadu Buhari to direct the “partial” resumption of school classes so that final ...

A member of the Lagos State House of Assembly representing Kosofe Constituency II , Tunde Braimoh, is dead. A close member of the family confirmed the incident on Friday morning. According to the source, the lawmaker died in the early hours of Friday. His death is coming exactly two weeks after his counterpart in the upper legislative chamber, Sikiru Osinowo died. ...

Final year secondary school students in Nigeria won’t participate in the forthcoming West African Examination Council(WAEC) examinations, the Federal Government has declared. The Minister of Education, Mallam Adamu Adamu, who disclosed this to State House Correspondents on Wednesday after the week’s virtual Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting, also said there is no date for school resumption yet. He said he ...

There is tension in Ondo State as members of the state House of Assembly have commenced the process of removing the Deputy Governor, Agboola Ajayi. The lawmakers are currently in session deliberating on the allegations of gross misconduct against the embattled deputy governor. Armed policemen and Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps have been deployed in the House of Assembly ...

For hours on Monday, acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu, testified before a panel looking into allegations leveled against him by Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice Abubakar Malami (SAN). The panel is headed by Justice Isa Ayo Salami, a retired president of the Court of Appeal. Magu was detained last night after being quizzed by the ...

Babajide Sanwo-Olu, governor of Lagos, has announced August 3 for resumption of schools in the state. Announcing the date at a media briefing on Friday, the governor said the resumption is for those in SSS 3 and Tech III. According to the governor, the decision was taken after a meeting with stakeholders in the education sector. “We just finished a ...

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has released the provisional list of governorship aspirants for the forthcoming Edo governorship election. The INEC national commissioner and chairman, information and voter education committee, Festus Okoye, in a statement on Tuesday, said 15 political parties had signified interest to conduct primaries for nomination of candidates in the Edo governorship election. The electoral body ...

The Chinwe Bode-Akinwande (CBA) Foundation, a non-governmental organization in Lagos, on Friday, donated chairs and industrial standing fans to the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) in Lagos State. While presenting the items to the management of the NYSC at its secretariat in Lagos, a board member of the CBA Foundation, Mr. Bode Akinwande, who represented the founder of the foundation, ...