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Acting IG, Alkali Usman Baba The police have no money for its operations despite the serious security situation in the country, Acting Inspector-General of Police Alkali Usman Baba said on Wednesday. Without funding, yet faced with attacks on its assets and killing of its officers and men in parts of the country, the police have become “Miracle Player” to be able to achieve whatever results they have recorded, Baba said. He spoke on the poor funding situation of the police at a meeting wi...

By Levinus Nwabughiogu-Abuja House of Representatives has urged the Inspector General of Police, Usman Alkali Baba and the Director-General of the Department of State Security Services, DSS to as a matter of urgency, step up actions in curtailing the incidents of kidnapping and banditry in Owan Federal Constituency and the country at large. The House also urged the Executive Arm of Government to initiate a holistic, implementable strategy including immediate recruitment of officers, deployment ...

Deputy governor, Dr. Obafemi Hamzat (left); Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu and Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Moyo Onigbanjo (SAN) at the signing into law bills establishing Lagos State Lotteries and Gaming Authority and the Public Complaints and Anti-Corruption Commission by the governor at the Lagos House, Ikeja…yesterday Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu, yesterday, signed the Public Complaints and Anti-Corruption Commission Bill 2021 into law to promote accountability a...

The National Assembly, last week, received a research work on legislative responses to COVID-19, which chronicled Assembly’s preparedness for emergencies. Udora Orizu reports An international non-governmental organisation, Westminster Foundation for Democracy (WFD), in collaboration with Young Parliamentarians Forum (YPF) of the National Assembly on March 31,presented a report on a study conducted on legislative responses to COVID-19 in Nigeria. The report, titled: ‘Legislative Responses to...

The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, HURIWA, has urged the National Assembly to confirm the nomination of former Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai (rtd) and some other Service Chiefs as non-career ambassadors. HURIWA said the National Assembly can endorse the appointments of the ex-Service Chiefs because there is no extant law stopping the immediate past security chiefs from being posted out as envoys after their disengagement. In a letter dated February 9, 2021, and signe...

A resident of Ughelli, Mr. Saturday Onajite has narrated how bullets came to lodge at the back of his head after an attack by armed robbers in Delta State. Onajite, a commercial motorcycle operator, said the robbers shot at him, disarmed him and went away with his motorcycle during an operation at Oberia street, Ughelli Community. The forty-nine-year-old man said the incident occurred at about 8am on Friday, February 5. Giving details of his ordeal to newsmen in Ughelli, the motorcyclist said h...

How Legislative Sagacity is Giving Impetus to Executive Excellence in Abia By Tue Jan 26 2021 “The greatest single virtue of a strong legislature is not what it can do, but what it can prevent” – J. William Fulbright Governor Okezie Ikpeazu is riding high. He has continued to endear himself to Abians, both home and abroad, and has continued to amaze even the most ardent of his critics with his excellent performances especially in the areas of road project delivery and provision of other c...

By Friday Idachaba Lokoja, Jan 11, 2021  The Out-going Chief Judge of Kogi, Justice Henry Olusiyi, says there is no alternative to total independence of the Judiciary if it must discharge its functions creditably. Olusiyi said this while presenting his speech at the valedictory court session held in his honour as the Chief Judge of the state at the High Court complex on Monday in Lokoja. The Chief Judge held that the Judiciary had the duty of ensuring that every citizen of the country lived a ...

Share THE Kogi State governor, Alhaji Yahaya Bello has inaugurated two new High Court Judges and two judges of the Customary court of Appeal in the state judiciary, with a charge to them to uphold integrity and tenets of justice, fairness and the rule of law. The governor, while inaugurating the Judges at the Government House, Lokoja, on Thursday, said there was need for continuous synergy between the three arms of government for the smooth running of government. He charged the newly sworn in J...

Daily Post Nigeria Published President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan has said it will hold a special session on Dec. 21 to consider and pass the 2021 appropriation bill, Lawan said this during Wednesday’s plenary following a motion by Senate Leader, Yahaya Abdullahi and seconded by Minority Leader, Enyinnaya Abaribe. According to him, the delay in the passage of the budget is to allow the Appropriation Committee include a late request for additional expenditure from the Executive. “The Committ...