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The National Assembly will today formally hand over details of the 2016 budget to President Muhammadu Buhari. Yesterday, both Chairmen of the Senate and House of Representatives committees on appropriation had submitted budget details to the Clerk to the National Assembly. Chairman of the House committee on appropriation Hon. Abdulmumin Jibrin (APC, Kano) while briefing […]

To cut the high cost of travelling by public officials, the Federal Government on Wednesday barred its top personnel from making officials trips on first class air tickets. Henceforth, travels with Business Class tickets would be restricted to only ministers, permanent secretaries, chairmen of Federal Government committees as well as chairmen and chief executives of […]

Ahead of the 69 elections the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) is set to conduct this weekend across the country, the Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu yesterday laid bare the true situation of things at the commission. He declared: “INEC is constrained. We are severely challenged because of the resurgence of violence. And remember that INEC […]

Activist-lawyer Femi Falana (SAN) has demanded the unconditional release of leader of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN), Sheik Ibraheem Zakzaky, and his wife, Hajia Zeenat Ibraheem, from unlawful detention. In a 5th April letter to the Director-General, Department of State Services (DSS), Falana said his clients were denied access to their family and doctors […]

The Lagos State Government on Wednesday said it would no longer allow indiscriminate parking of vehicles on the road networks across the state on the basis of queuing up for Premium Motor Spirit otherwise known as petrol, just as it threatened to sanction any erring filling stations and motorists who flout the directive. Erring motorists […]

Justice Taiwo Taiwo of the Lagos State High Court has adjourned to 27th April, ruling on the application filed by Rickey Tarfa (SAN) seeking to quash the charge preferred against two of his clients, Gnanhoe Sourou Nazaire and Senou Modeste Finagnon, both citizens of Republic of Benin. They are standing trial for allegedly defrauding one […]

A forensic expert and witness of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has told a Federal Capital Territory High Court, sitting in Gudu, Abuja that the signatures on the bank mandate card of Ebenezer Retnan Ventures, and other opening account packages with then All States Trust Bank, ASTB, belong to Joshua Dariye. The former […]

Former chairman of Nigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Professor Attahiru Jega, has received a nomination from Chatham House for successfully overseeing what has come to be known as Nigeria’s most credible elections since 1999.   Jega, a professor of Political Science, exuded much professionalism in the election that got the All Progressives Congress (APC) […]

The following chart from the Paragon Real Estate Group, showing median house prices in San Francisco, is troubling, for reasons which do not need an explanation. And here is a bonus chart:it shows the minimum amount of qualifying income one needs to purchase a “median priced house” based on prevailing prices and mortgage interest rates, […]

Recently, White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest said the following: “One of the key legacy achievements of this presidency will be the important reforms of Wall Street. Those reforms have led to a financial system that is more stable and ensures that taxpayers are not on the hook for bailing out financial institutions that make […]

When it comes to jobs growth in the US, all one can say is thank god for waiters and bartenders: after all, a Starbucks barista is precisely what a recently fired oil chemical engineer making half a million dollars really wants to do with their life. However, the days of easy job gains for the […]