News (302551)

Ekiti works commissioner resigns

Court orders FG to allow Dasuki access to his lawyers

FG, telecommunication regulators sign agreement on telecommunications regulation

Arase decorates eleven newly promoted Senior Police Officers (PLUS: Full list of beneficiaries)

FG assures of effective implementation of 2016 budget

Lagos bans indiscriminate queuing for fuel; violators to pay heavy fines

NLC to declare national warning strike over government’s refusal to reduce electricity tariff

Troops kill Niger Delta militant, intensify manhunt for killers of 2 soldiers, abducted expatriate

Fuel Scarcity: Hope rises as NNPC takes delivery of 7 cargoes of petrol

GTB, Zenith Bank rain N110 billion on shareholders

Army arrests suspected Boko Haram members with poisoned fish

Shocking revelations of loot as Saraki’s trial continues at CCT

At last, National Assembly sends 2016 budget details for transmission to Presidency

Police declares state of emergency in Kaduna

NANS demands reinstatement of 13 sacked vice chancellors

Activities of Fulani herdsmen may lead to civil war —HURIWA

CSOs reject nominee on NEITI Board, draw battle-line

MOSOP President emerges Africa Coordinator of the International Indigenous Peoples’ Movement for Self-Determination

IPOB storms South African Parliament to ask for help for Biafra

Teenage Nigerian girl gets accepted by all eight US Ivy League schools; says: ‘Whatever I do, I want to make sure it impacts on Nigeria’

Dwindling revenue has taught us a lesson —Aregbesola •Signs Osun Land Use Act Law

PDP Convention: Dickson heads reconciliation committee, seeks internal democracy

Ikpeazu signs N101.4 billion Abia 2016 Budget into law

You’re the threat to Nigeria’s democracy, not Wike, Rivers PDP Chairman tells Amaechi

Urhobotoday Publisher releases dates for mother’s burial ceremony

Troops rescue 11,595 Boko Haram hostages in one month (PLUS: Details of where, when and how they were liberated)

Police bursts Enugu killer gang

Military mourns as kidnappers kill 2 soldiers during Bayelsa gun duel, whisk away expatriate

Intersociety alleges butchering of innocent pro-Biafra activists across the Niger •Gives state-by-state breakdown

Sultan wants FRSC personnel as drivers of convoys of state governors, other top government officials

FG unfolds strategy to address youth unemployment, drug addiction

Okowa vows to monitor petrol tankers billed for Delta State

Bauchi to benefit from US reconstruction of Northeast —Governor Abubakar

Amnesty International laments as executions hit 25-year high

South African president survives impeachment vote