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Fresh crisis has erupted in the opposition Peoples Democratic Party after a former Minister of Information and a founding member of the party, Jerry Gana, led a group of other leading members to announce the takeover of the party from its national chairman, Ali Sheriff.
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Lawmakers in the Congress of the United States of America may soon vote on a bill that will allow President Barack Obama and his government to set aside all or part of Abacha loot recovered in the U.S. for victims of the Boko Haram insurgency.
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The federal government has announced a full deregulation of the downstream sector of the Nigerian petroleum industry, pushing the price of petrol to about N145 a litre.
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Thousands of angry youth in Kano on Wednesday stormed houses belonging to their Senator and member of the House of Representatives, and set the properties alight, accusing the lawmakers of failing to fulfil their electoral promises.
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This Tuesday, PREMIUM TIMES is bringing you live updates as hearing resumes in the landmark case of Senate President, Bukola Saraki, at the Code of Conduct Tribunal headquarters in Abuja.
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Troops of the 21 Brigade, 7 Division, have continued their offensive operations against Boko Haram terrorists still hiding in the Sambisa forest, the army headquarters said Monday.
The spokesperson for the army, Sani Usman, said in a statement that more camps were cleared as troops penetrated deeper into the dreaded forest.
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The Kenyan government…insists they must go because they pose a security threat and are too costly for the country to continue to maintain. Specifically, the government argues that they provide a base for al-Shabaab terrorists who have been engaged in mass atrocities in the country. There is however no evidence that the terrorists were from the camp.
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The Kenyan government…insists they must go because they pose a security threat and are too costly for the country to continue to maintain. Specifically, the government argues that they provide a base for al-Shabaab terrorists who have been engaged in mass atrocities in the country. There is however no evidence that the terrorists were from the camp.
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Barring any last-minute change in plans, the federal government will, in a few days, introduce policy changes heŕalding the full deregulation of the downstream sector of the Nigerian petroleum industry, officials well briefed on the matter have told PREMIUM TIMES.
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President Muhammadu Buhari has signed the the 2016 appropriation Act into law.
Mr. Buhari signed the budget in the presence of the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, in his office at the presidential villa Abuja.
Others who witnessed the budget signing ceremony were the national chairman of the governing All Progressives Congress, APC, John Odigie-Oyegun and the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babachir Lawal.
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At least 110 Nigerian individuals and companies have so far been identified by PREMIUM TIMES in the leaked internal data of Panamanian law firm, Mossack Fonsecca, as operators of offshore shell companies in tax havens.
Prominent among the new names being revealed today, in addition to the several that were published in the past one month, are the founder of telecommunication company, Globacom, Mike Adenuga; Niger State Governor, Abubakar Sadiq Sani Bello and the late Ooni of Ife, Okunade Sijuwade, among others.
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A bill for a law which prescribes five-year jail term for lecturers who engage in sexual relationship with students passed its first reading in the Senate on Wednesday.
The bill, sponsored by Ovie Omo-Agege (Labour-Delta Central) and co-sponsored by 46 other senators, seeks to completely prohibit any form of sexual relationship between lecturers and their students.
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‎The leader of a group that abducted a former minister of state for Education, Iyabo Anisulowo, is an audacious kingpin in the business who approached the police to help facilitate the payment of the N200 million ransom they demanded while she was being held captive, PREMIUM TIMES has learnt.
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Almost immediately after he was sworn in as the first democratically-elected governor of Bayelsa State in May 1999, the late Diepreye Alamieyeseigha began his long journey of stealing in office by erecting solid offshore structures, including the now infamous company, Solomon & Peters Limited.
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My favourite slogan from the May 1968 Paris students and workers revolt is “soyez raisonable, demandez l’impossible” meaning that being reasonable could also mean making demands that appear unreasonable in the current thinking. By the time President Charles De Gaulle fled Paris in fear of the one million protestors that threatened to march on the Elysee Palace, the French ruling class was ready to sit down and negotiate the demands they had earlier dismissed as unreasonable. In our context in Nigeria today, it appears unreasonable to think that the minimum wage could be raised from 18 to 56 thousand Naira when three quarters of the States are unable to pay the current rate.
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As Nigerians grapple with one of the nation’s most devastating episodes of fuel scarcity, there is need for motorists to understand how to conserve and manage the little fuel they have.
A review of vehicle manuals point to tips that can help lower fuel consumption and save cost.
Below are top five methods.
1. The viscosity grade of engine oil
The quality of engine oil one uses in his car is an important factor on how cars consume fuel.
Viscosity, which is the state of being thick, sticky, and semi-fluid due to internal friction of the car engine, does also determine fuel consumption.
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The Senate President, Bukola Saraki, has filed another application to disqualify Danladi Umar, the chairman of the Code of Conduct Tribunal, from continuing to preside over his trial.
Ajibola Oluyede, a counsel to Mr. Saraki, who is being tried for alleged false and anticipatory assets declaration, filed the application shortly after the trial resumed on Wednesday morning.
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Nigeria’s perennial fuel crisis has defied all solutions by successive governments. The problem is not a creation by witches from outer space, but an entirely Nigerian problem by Nigerians.
Business & Economy Editor, Bassey Udo, who has reported several cycles of fuel crises in more than two decades, x-rays reasons the crisis has persisted.
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A former President of the Nigerian Senate, David Mark, was not telling the truth when he denied knowledge of eight offshore companies linked to him as part of the ongoing #PanamaPapers revelations, a series of leaked documents has shown.
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As Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Michael Aondoakaa attracted international attention as a key figure in the cabinet of President Umaru Yar’Adua who provided critical legal cover for the survival of a President plagued with ill-health.
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The Nigerian Senate has suspended the ongoing amendment of the Code of Conduct Act which was initiated and referred to its committees on Judiciary and Ethics, Privileges and Public Petitions last week.
The legislative body also resolved to suspend amendment of Administration of Criminal Justice Acts (ACJA).

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Suspected Boko Haram insurgents on Tuesday ambushed the convoy of the Acting General Officer Commanding, GOC, 7 Division, the Nigerian Army has said.
The Army spokesperson, Sani Usman, said in a statement that “the leading elements of the Acting General Officer Commanding, GOC, 7 Division Nigerian Army, Brigadier General Victor Ezugwu’s leading convoy was about 8.30am on Tuesday morning ambushed by suspected Boko Haram terrorists enroute to visit troops in Bama, Borno state, north east Nigeria”.
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Over the two years of struggle, the message has been simple and lucid. There is a failure of governance that has created the conditions for the abduction of Chibok Girls and thousands of other Nigerians. It is the same failure of governance that has impeded the search and rescue mission. How else can we explain that not even one of the 219 girls has been found after 24 months of their abduction?
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A bill for an amendment of Code of Conduct Tribunal and Bureau Act scaled second reading at Senate, Thursday, just 48 hours after it was first read.
In Nigeria’s lawmaking process, rarely do bills get such accelerated legislative action.
The bill sponsored by Peter Nwaoboshi (PDP-Delta State), passed second reading and subsequently referred to the committees on Judiciary and Ethics, Privileges and Public Petitions.
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A former Senate president, David Mark, has finally responded to report exposing his link with offshore shell companies in breach of Nigeria’s code of conduct for public officers.
On Tuesday, PREMIUM TIMES exclusively reported Mr. Mark’s links with eight offshore companies in British Virgin Island as shown by the leaked database of Mossack Fonseca, a Panamanian law firm reputed for helping clients register shell companies, some of which are used for illicit purposes.
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Enrico Monfrini, a Swiss attorney hired by the administration of former President Olusegun Obasanjo to track missing Abacha loot in Swiss banks is himself operating over 178 companies in offshore tax havens, a massive leak secret documents belonging to offshore shell companies has revealed.
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Theophilus Danjuma, a retired army general and former defence minister, is one of Nigeria’s richest personalities, courtesy of his ownership of one of Nigeria’s most lucrative oil blocs and a money spinning shipping firm.
The retired general is a long time user of offshore entities, and the Mossac Fonseca files has now exposed another of his companies – Eastcoast Investments Inc – which he incorporated in Nassau, in the Bahamas, on March 25, 1997.
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At least four assets belonging to the wealthy and famous Saraki family of Nigeria, all tucked away in secret offshore territories, have been uncovered.
But the President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki, failed to declare them to the Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB) as required by Nigerian laws.
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The Inspector General of Police, Solomon Arase, has deployed additional units of the police force to Agatu community in Benue State where hundreds of people were killed recently by suspected Fulani herdsmen.
A statement from the Public Relations Officer of the Force Head Quarters in Abuja, Olabisi Kolawole, said Mr. Arase assured of the government’s readiness to apprehend the culprits involved in the attack.
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The Lagos State government on Thursday shut down Mile 12 market after a clash between Yoruba and Hausa communities left five people dead.
Governor Akinwunmi Ambode said Thursday that the market would remain closed until the dispute between the communities is resolved.
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The President of the Nigerian Senate, Bukola Saraki, has formally replied a letter ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo wrote to the National Assembly on January 13, accusing the country’s federal lawmakers of corruption, greed, lawlessness and impunity.
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