No fewer than 172 Federal Road Safety Corps personnel have been arrested and are under investigation for corruption, the Corps Marshal, Dr Boboye Oyeyemi has disclosed. He explained that 70 erring officers were arrested in two tactical moves through internal regulatory mechanisms, another 71 operatives were also nabbed while 31 others were apprehended by other […]
The Commissioner of Lagos State Command, CP Hakeem Odumosu yesterday declared a state of emergency on traffic management and control in the state. This is barely two days after he took over as the new police boss in Lagos State. He also ordered the immediate deployment of an additional one thousand police officers for traffic […]
The Appeal Court sitting in Sokoto on Friday upheld the election of Gov. Aminu Waziri Tambuwal as duly elected. The four-man panel in a unanimous decision upheld Tambuwal’s election after dismissing the Appeal filed by the Appellant and governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress(APC), Alhaji Ahmed Aliyu for lacking in merit. Delivering judgment, Justice […]
Oil prices held near two-month highs on Friday and were set for a third consecutive week of gains, boosted by expectations of an extension to OPEC+ production cuts although doubts over U.S. and China trade talks capped gains. Brent crude futures LCOc1 dropped 6 cents to 63.91 dollars a barrel by 0908 GMT, while West […]
State governors yesterday expressed support for the Finance Bill, which seeks to increase Value Added Tax (VAT) from five per cent to 7.5 per cent. Vice-chairman of the Nigerian Governors Forum (NGF) and Sokoto State Governor Aminu Tambuwal disclosed this at the NGF monthly meeting in Abuja. He said: “We are in support of that […]