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  The Senate, on Tuesday, amended the Acts establishing the South-South, South-West, and North-Central Development Commissions, to provide for the appointment of more executive directors to enhance efficient administration in the regional bodies.   This was sequel to the presentation of three bills sponsored by the Senate Leader, Opeyemi Bamidele ...

  Former National Secretary of the defunct Social Democratic Party and ex-Governor of Jigawa State, Sule Lamido, has urged President Bola Tinubu to bring closure to the June 12, 1993 saga by settling the N45 billion debt owed to the family of the late 1993 presidential election winner, Chief MKO ...

  Nigerian actress and filmmaker, Funke Akindele, has been named one of The Hollywood Reporter’s “Most Influential Women in International Film,” a prestigious global list celebrating 46 visionary women making a significant impact on the international film industry.   Reacting to the recognition, Akindele took to her Instagram page on ...

  Justice Binta Nyako of the Federal High Court in Abuja has set June 27 to give a final judgment in the case filed by suspended Kogi Central senator, Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan.   Akpoti-Uduaghan is challenging her suspension from the Senate.   She took the matter to court after the Senate, ...

  The House of Representatives, on Tuesday, rejected a constitutional amendment bill seeking to rotate the office of the president and vice president among the six geopolitics zones of the country.   In addition, the House rejected six other constitutional alteration bills listed in the order paper of the House ...

  A human rights lawyer and counsel for the Indigenous People of Biafra, Ifeanyi Ejiofor, has faulted the Amnesty International report on Okigwe killings, describing it as “hasty and full of inconsistencies”, just as he called for a thorough, impartial, and evidence-based investigation.   Recall that some yet-to-be-identified armed men ...

    The United Nations Children’s Fund, on Tuesday, raised the alarm over diversion and reselling of RUTF, a food meant for over half a million malnourished children in Borno, Adamawa State.   The organisation described the act as ‘going out of hand’ and may result in the death of ...

  The Anambra State Police Command has rearrested one Ikemefuna Ossai, a suspect linked to the kidnapping and gruesome murder of the late member, representing Onitsha 1 Constituency in the Anambra State House of Assembly, Justice Azuka.   It was gathered that the suspect was re-arrested in Asaba, Delta State, ...

  Two students of the University of Ibadan have won the French Embassy’s “Get Creative with Plastic” Challenge.   This is contained in a statement on Tuesday in Ibadan, by the university’s Director of Public Communication, Mrs Joke Akinpelu.   Akinpelu explained that the challenge was part of the French ...

  The former President, Olusegun Obasanjo, former Vice Presidents, Atiku Abubakar, Namadi Sambo and former Presidents of the Senate, Ken Nnamani, Paius Ayim have arrived at the venue of former Jigawa State Governor, Sule Lamido’s Book Launch.   Former PDP National Chairman, Iyorchia Ayu, is set to review Lamido’s autobiography ...