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Former Senate President, David Mark, has called for a peaceful national convention on Saturday of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party. Mr. Mark urged the delegates to right the wrongs of the party’s past by allowing the will of the people to prevail at the elective gathering. In a message to the delegates, the senator admonished “true faithful of the PDP to try and restore the dignity of the party, urging them to shun ills such as imposition of candidates and impunity he said ruined the chances of the party in…

Embattled former chairman of the Pension Reform Task Team, Mr Abdulrasheed Maina has asked the Federal Government to pay him five per cent of the N1.6 trillion pension fund he and his team recovered for the government. According to him, the demand is based on an agreement he had with the Head of Service before taking up the job. The former pension boss also insisted that his reinstatement into the Federal Civil Service was based on the approval of the Office of the Head of Service of the Federation, the…

Lagos State Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode, has directed the Nigeria Inter-Religious Council (NIREC) to conduct an enumeration of religious centres, particularly churches and mosques, in the state. Ambode, who was represented by the Commissioner for Home Affairs, Dr. Abdul Hakeem Abdul-Lateef, gave the directive while inaugurating 798 members of the NIREC appointed for the 20 local governments and 37 local council development areas in Lagos. “One of the core functions you are going to discharge is the collation of religious institutions at the local government level. You must ensure you compile…

The newly appointed Imo State Commissioner for Happiness and Purpose Fulfilment, Ogechi Ololo, has denied owning a Twitter account that has been sending out controversial tweets since tuesday. Mrs. Ololo was appointed commissioner by her brother and Governor of Imo State, Rochas Okorocha, a development that has attracted widespread condemnation and humour from Nigerians. As discussions on the new appointment was raging, a new Twitter account suddenly appeared in her name, with terse remarks, filled with grammatical blunders attacking those critical of the appointment. The account also lashed out at…

Moses Motoni, an official of a civic organisation, BudgIT, has narrated how his legs were chained and his hands handcuffed to a seat by some policemen who arrested him. He stated that he was apprehended in Kaduna and brought to Abuja for holding a town hall meeting in Bida, Niger State, on budget tracking. The victim, who was released by the police in Abuja on Wednesday, after uproar on the social media, said he saw hell in the hands of police personnel, who dehumanised and treated him like a criminal.…