Attempts to include Kano and Plateau States as part of beneficiaries in the proposed North East Development Commission, NEDC, failed at the floor of the Senate on Tuesday.
President Muhammadu Buhari arrived Banjul, the capital of The Gambia on Tuesday morning, as part of an ECOWAS delegation of Heads of States to meet with the Gambian President, Yahya Jammeh, over his rejection of the presidential election which he lost.
In spite of various reports of complicity and partisanship against the Nigerian Police and other security agencies in last Saturday’s Rivers State legislative re-run election, the Inspector General of Police, IGP, Ibrahim Idris, has expressed satisfaction over the performance of the police officers that took part in the election.
The Federal Government has arraigned Adeniyi Ademola, a judge of the Federal High Court in Abuja before a High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, Maitama on allegation of receiving bribes in the discharge of his duty as a judge.
