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Budget breakdown In an infographics made available to our reporter, the organization revealed what each ministry will get. The president had presented a N6.08 trillion budget before a joint session of National Assembly.

No fewer than 120 deaths arising from accidents were recorded in the power sector in 2015, the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission has said. According to NERC, the sector also recorded 117 injuries during the period, as it decried the high number of casualties in the industry despite having trained engineers in the workforce. The Manager, Statistics and Forecasting, NERC, Chigozie Azikiwe, said this on Wednesday while addressing stakeholders in the industry during a two-day meeting held at the headquarters of the commission in Abuja.

In this report, KUNLE OLASANMI looks at the trial of the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, which continues at the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) today and the fresh issues raised by his legal team About six months after the trial of Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki began at the code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT), much controversies have been generated due to the calibre of person involved in the case.

  THE Federal Roads Safety Commission (FRSC) appears bent on enforcing the introduction of the Speed Limiting Device (SLD) come September 1, 2016 in spite of furious opposition from some quarters, particularly transporters and members of the House of Representatives. In fact, the Lawmakers called for the outright suspension of the scheme, arguing that the Commission should settle for a more technologically-up to date approach rather than embracing the speed limiting device which, they argued, had been dumped by many countries because they “do not work”.

  Microsoft has launched a Twitter bot, TayTweets, that is capable of responding to and making conversation with users. If you've been giving the Twitter-verse gold and getting nothing in response, or perhaps you don't have enough followers to get dialogue going, now you can converse with Microsoft's Twitter bot. The robot, Tay (@TayandYou), automatically responds to tweets sent its way. Responses are instantaneous, though not always related to what it was asked or sent.

Speaking at the official signing of a Memorandum of Understanding between the two states held at the Banquet Hall, Lagos House, Ikeja, Governor Akinwunmi Ambode said the partnership signaled the commencement of a new beginning of cooperation and common-sense revolution, which is line with the change mantra of All Progressives Congress that calls for patriotism in all facets of life   In line with the persistent calls for a paradigm shift from over dependence on oil as the major earner of the country, the Lagos State Government and the Kebbi State Government on Wednesday entered into a partnership on the establishment of a commodity value chain that will give a quantum leap to food processing, production and distribution.

  Governor Nasir El-rufai is accused of implementing anti-workers policies – The NLC and TUC held a meeting and resolved to issue a seven days ultimatum to the governor – The organised labour threatened a nation wide shut down if the governor fails to meet its demand Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Rufai El-Rufai is accused of anti-workers policies Governor Nasir El-rufai of Kaduna state might be in for a long ride with the members of the organised labour who shut down government activities in the state on March

The Kardashian matriarch called into the Kyle and Jackie O Show on Wednesday and gave her opinion of Rob Kardashian's new girlfriend -- who happens to be the ex-fiancée of Kylie Jenner's boyfriend, Tyga. Her opinion might surprise you, too. "I haven't really seen her that much and I don't know her as well as everyone else, but she seems like a really nice girl," Kris said. "I just haven't been around her too much. But, you know, he's been very, very happy lately and I think he's in a really good place. I don't know too much about their relationship."

Khalid and Ibrahim El Bakraoui were Belgian nationals with criminal backgrounds; suspected IS jihadist Najim Laachraoui is another possible participant he two brothers who blew themselves up in the deadly train and airport attacks in Brussels were known by police for serious crimes and are linked to November’s Paris massacre. Khalid and Ibrahim El Bakraoui are Belgian nationals with major convictions “not linked to terrorism”, federal prosecutor Frederic Van Leeuw said at a dramatic news briefing on Wednesday. Khalid (27), who blew himself up on Tuesday at the Maalbeek metro station, is a convicted car-jacker. His brother Ibrahim (30), who was one of two suicide bombers at the airport, had been handed a nine-year sentence for firing his gun at police, local media say.

Edo State Governor, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole has lambasted those behind the recent call for the sack of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) governor, Mr Godwin Emefiele. He said anyone calling for the removal of Emefiele was a drunkard try­ing to sabotage the Nigerian economy. Oshiomhole made this remark in Abuja when he paid a courtesy call on the Executive Secretary of the National Universities Commission (NUC), Prof. Julius Okogie to finalise plans on the take-off of Edo State University in Iyamo.

In his response, Tajudeen Abdulganiyu, Director of Public Prosecutions, told the court that the preliminary objection was just served on him on Tuesday evening Yewande Oyediran, a female lawyer, alleged to have killed her husband, Lowo Oyediran, on Wednesday sought for an order of an Oyo State High Court, Ibadan to strike out a charge of murder levelled against her. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that Oyediran, of the Directorate of the Public Prosecutions, Oyo State Ministry of Justice, allegedly murdered Lowo by stabbing him with a knife on February 2. The counsel representing Oyediran, Bioye Ashanike, told the court that he had filed a preliminary objection in respect of the charge of murder preferred against his client.

The Department of the State Services (DSS) yesterday failed to produce former national security adviser (NSA, Col Sambo Dasuki, before an FCT High Court. At the last adjourned date, the DSS was forced to produce Dasuki in court when the judge insisted that he must be produced before he could proceed with his trial. During yesterday’s proceedings, prosecutor for the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mr Rotimi Jacob, informed Justice Husseini Baba Yusuf that the defendant refused to come to court on the ground that his lawyers, Joseph Daudu and Ahmed Raji, would not be in court.

After several weeks of bickering with the executive over repetition of subheads and recurrent estimates, tagged ‘budget padding’, the Senate yesterday approved a total aggregate expenditure of N6,060,677,358,227 trillion for the executive to spend this year, 2016. It was exactly 93 days after the budget proposal was presented to the joint session of the National Assembly by President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday, December 22, 2015

Story highlights Investigators conclude that two pieces of wreckage found in Mozambique likely from missing plane Results come shortly after a suspected piece of engine cowling is found in South Africa