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The Corp Marshal, Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Dr Boboye Oyeyemi, has ordered that flatbed trailers without proper latching should be immediately impounded if sighted on the roads by patrol teams. Oyeyemi gave the order in a statement by the Corps Public Education Officer, Mr Bisi Kazeem, on Saturday in Abuja. He noted with concern the continued carriage of containers by flatbed trailers without proper latching and ordered that such vehicles be impounded. He added that the corps would further make the existing partnership between the FRSC and the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) stronger. “FRSC is also to continue to…

The FCT Police Command has arrested the Chief of Ushafa in Bwari Area Council, Alhaji Mohammed Baba, following the alleged killing of a police officer by a mob at his palace. The command Public Relations Officer (PPRO), DSP Anjuguri Manzah disclosed this in a statement on Friday in Abuja. He said the secretary to the chief’s palace, Mr Danlami Busa was also arrested in connection with the case. Manzah said ASP Eric Isaiah was murdered at the palace of the chief while trying to arrest one Moses Peter aka Dogo, a suspect wanted for culpable homicide. He said one Dominic…

The Oyo State Police Command on Friday vowed to fish out the killers of a trado-medical practitioner, Alhaji Fatai Yusuf, popularly known as ‘Oko Oloyun.’ The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the convoy of the deceased was attacked on Thursday on the Igbo-Ora-Eruwa road by gunmen who shot at his convoy from thick forest, with a bullet fatally injuring him. He was said to have later died from the injuries caused by the bullet. A statement by the Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) in the state, SP Olugbenga Fadeyi, hinted at a nexus between a fire incident in…

A former Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Director, Mr Titus Okurounmu, says the rise in the nation’s total public debt is not unusual for an emerging economy. Okurounmu told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos, on Friday, that the rising debt was nothing extraordinary, because oftentimes, the government needs to borrow due to inadequate funds. Recall that the nation’s public debt stood at N26.215 trillion as of the end of the third quarter of 2019. The Director-General of the Debt Management Office (DMO), Ms. Patience Oniha, who made the disclosure at a media briefing in Abuja, said the…

By Tony  Obiechina,  Abuja  The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) on Friday raised the Cash Reserve Ratio (CRR) from 22.5 to 27.5 percent, retaining the Monetary Policy Rate (MPR) benchmark at 13.5 percent. CBN Governor, Mr Godwin Emefiele, announced this during a press conference at the end of a two-day Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) meeting held at the apex bank’s headquarters in Abuja. He said all the nine committee members voted to retain the MPR and increase CRR owing to the rise in inflation. “The committee by a decision of nine members voted to alter cash reserve requirement by 500…

Some eminent Nigerian leaders from across the nation on Friday held a closed-door meeting in Lagos on the need to preserve continued unity and peaceful coexistence of the country. The meeting, which held at the Sheraton Hotel, Ikeja, was chaired by a former Presidential Adviser founding member of Northern Elders Forum, Alhaji Tanko Yakassai. The meeting themed: “National Discourse on Nigeria, Chaos or Community”, was convened by Nigerian National Summit Group (NNSG) in collaboration with Osigwe Anyiam- Osigwe Foundation and We Care Foundation. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that those in attendance included leaders of thought from various…

President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, for the umpteenth time on Friday, dismissed the insinuation that the ninth National Assembly is a rubber stamp Legislature. Lawan who returned to Nigeria Thursday morning after about three weeks private visit abroad said no amount of blackmail will discourage the present Assembly from working with the executive arms of government for the betterment of the people. The Senate President was responding to a surprised belated birthday presentation by his North East Support Group at the Dutse Airport in Jigawa state on his way to his Yobe North Senatorial District in Yobe State. Lawan…

A medical expert, Dr Babatunde Adewumi of the General Hospital, Omu Aran, has advised Nigerians to run multiple genotype tests to avoid wrong genotype combination in their marriage. Adewumi, who spoke with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Ilorin on Friday, said that people should be more committed to tackling the sickle cell scourge. According to him, the wrong test result is one of the reasons responsible for the increasing rate of sickle cell carriers in the country. ”There are two machines used for the genotype test; the one that is automated and the other one that is manual.…

By Tony Obiechina, Abuja  The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) on Friday expressed deep concerns over the nation’s rising public debt burden, calling on the government to tread cautiously. The Apex Bank also urged the Fiscal Authorities to “strongly consider building buffers by not sharing all the proceeds from the Federation Account at the FAAC meetings to avert a macroeconomic downturn in the of an oil price shock”. CBN Governor,  Mr Godwin Emefiele made these pronouncements while reading the communique at the end of a two-day meeting of the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) at the Bank’s head office in Abuja.…

University lecturers have threatened a`No Pay, No Work’ action over the Federal Government’s plan to withhold the January salary of some of their colleagues who failed to enroll on the Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System (IPPIS). The lectures under the aegis of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) issued the threat in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Friday in Abuja. The ASUU National President, Prof. Biodun Ogunyemi , said a circular by the Federal Government calling for such step was uncalled for, as the union’s engagement with the government on the issue was…