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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

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» morePeople fetch water in containers in canoes at a water selling point in the Makoko fishing community on the Lagos Lagoon, Nigeria President Muhammadu Buhari presented a record $30 billion budget in December but asked for its withdrawal a month later to make changes after a further drop in oil prices.

Two suicide bombers who carried out the attacks in Brussels airport and Metro identified as brothers Khalid and Brahim El Bakraou Authorities in Belgium are searching for a man pictured at the Brussels airport with two apparent suicide bombers after 34 people were killed and more than 200 injured in Tuesday's terror attacks. The manhunt comes amid growing suggestions that the bombings of Zaventem airport and the Brussels Metro were the work of the same Islamic State (IS) cell that attacked Paris last year.