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The Lagos State government on Wednesday told a Lagos State High Court sitting at Tafa Balewa Square TBS, that the private waste operators of domestic and commercial wastes in the state who are also known as Private Sector Participants, (PSP) operators, that their continued operation in the state is at their own expense The counsel to the state government Olubukola Adesina said that “The fact that the waste managers are cleaning the state does not mean they have been employed as they are doing so at their own will,” Adsina said that the reason the operators brought the matter to court was to force the contract on the Lagos state government. “You can’t foist a willing party on to a principal.” She further stated that the operators have not been doing their job very well and diligently. However Adegboruwa objected to the submission of the counsel to Lagos state and urged the court to dismiss the submission and hold that the first to third defendants cannot approbate ...

An alleged schoolgirl who was one of those abducted by the Boko Haram in 2014 has escaped from captivity, a presidential aide has told the BBC. The girl was reportedly found by government troops while she was escaping, Femi Adesina said, without giving details. The girl was reportedly one of the 276 girls kidnapped by Boko Haram from Chibok town in 2014, sparking global outrage. A total of 103 of the girls have been released so far, including 82 earlier this month in a prisoner swap. The 82 girls, who met  President Muhammadu Buhari on May 7, are expected to be reunited with their families later this week.

A former Acting State Chairman of Peoples Democratic Party, Bayelsa State, Mr. Christopher Hobobo, has been assassinated. He was reportedly assassinated in his residence on PDP Road, Yenagoa, the state capital. Hobobo, who hailed from Agbere town in Sagbama Local Government Area of the state was allegedly stabbed to death by unknown assassins in the early hours of Wednesday. The assassination of Hobobo is coming within one month after a similar assassination of a Yenagoa-based broadcast journalist, Mr. Famous Giobaro. Hobobo’s gate was forced open by the assailants before gaining access to his sitting room, where they allegedly stabbed him several times in the chest. It was learnt that his killers refrained from using the gun to kill the former acting Chairman of the PDP in order not to attract the attention of his neighbours. It was also learnt that after the incident, family relations and friends, who thronged to the house as early as...

Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed has debunked media reports credited to him that the Presidency is still confused about who would assent to the 2017 budget even with Acting President Yemi Osinbajo in charge of the country’s affairs. Media reports had quoted the Minister as saying that the presidency is still unsure of who will assent to the budget as well as swearing-in of two Ministers-designate. However, speaking with our correspondent, the Minister denies the claim. According to him, all he said that the issue of who will sign the budget will be addressed once the budget is sent to the presidency. “ No, I never said we are confused on who will assent to the budget. What I said was that when the budget is sent to the Presidency, the issue of who will sign it will be addressed

THE Presidency is to take a decision on who signs the 2017 Appropriation Bill into law whenever the document is transmitted to it for accent, Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed has said. Acting President Yemi Osinbajo, was expected to sign the document following the letter written by President Muhammadu Buhari to the National Assembly in compliance with Section 145 of the Nigerian Constitution apprising the legislature of his decision to proceed on medical leave. However, when asked who would sign the budget while the minister was briefing State House correspondents on the outcome of Wednesday’s meeting of the Federal Executive Council (FEC), Mohammed said: “When it is transmitted to the Presidency that decision will be taken‎.” He also revealed that an advanced copy of the passed budget was now in possession of the Minister of Budget and National Planning, Udo Udoma, which he said the executive would now study for any discrepancies fro...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Tuesday, May 16, 2017 arraigned the duo of Buhari. Fannami and Ba-Kura Abdullahi on two separate one count charge before Justice M. T Salihu of the Federal High Court Maiduguri, for allegedly giving false information to the agency under the whistle blowing policy. Fannamit had misled the EFCC with the information about illegally acquired monies purportedly buried at the residence of one Ba’a Lawan but the information turned out to be false after the execution of a search warrant. The accused person pleaded not guilty to the charge. Counsel to the prosecution Alkassim Ja’afar asked for a trial date and prayed the court to remand the accused person in the prison custody pending trial. Justice Salihu adjourned the matter to June 7 and 8, 2017 for hearing and ordered the accused to be remanded in the prison custody. On his part, Ba-Kura Abdullahi also gave false information to the effect that large sum of...

The police in Enugu have arrested the killers of the orderly to the deputy governor, Mrs. Cecilia Ezeilo. The orderly, Sgt Helen Sunday was shot dead last week by unknown gunmen after she was dropped on her way back home by an official car. A police bulletin issued Tuesday by the Enugu police spokesman, Ebere Amaraizu ‎said:”Suspects identified as Emmanuel Onyeabor  and Kanu Oti were picked a day after the incident at their various hideouts of Lomalinda Independence layout axis and Amorji Nike axis of Abakpa in Enugu East Local Government Area after a serious gun duel which left suspects fatally injured and   while some of the gang members escaped with gunshot wounds”. According to the bulletin, the police have spread its dragnet with a view to arresting the fleeing members of the gang. The command has requested from “members of the public and hospital operators about information concerning anyone with wounds suspected to be that of bull...