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The Minister of Works, Power, Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola (SAN), cannot dictate to the National Assembly on what to do and what not to do on the budget, saying it is an organ vested with powers to either increase or reduce the budget size, says the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Banking, Insurance and Other Financial Institutions, Senator Rafiu Adebayo Ibrahim on Sunday. The Senator, who spoke with journalists on the sidelines of the fifth edition of the University of Ilorin’s Students’ Union Leadership Summit held in Ilorin, said it was unbecoming of the minister, who he described as an appointee of the president to criticise the legislature. According to him, “As far as appropriation bill is concerned, Fashola cannot dictate to the National Assembly on what to do and what not to do.” He said: “It is an organ vested with powers to either increase or reduce the budget size.” The Minister of Works castigate the slashing the total estimate allocated to his ministry in...

London firefighters battled a large fire in a building in Camden Lock Market in the early hours of Monday. The London Fire  Brigade said it had also sent 10 fire engines to the scene, near a nightclub and a covered market.  There were no reports of any casualties. “The first, second and third floors, plus the roof, of a building within the market are alight,” the London Fire Brigade said on Twitter. “The Brigade’s 999 Control Officers have taken multiple calls to the highly visible blaze and people are asked to avoid the area”. “The fire was moving very fast,” witness Joan Ribes, 24, told the Press Association. He said the fire “was flying through the air to the surrounding areas”. “People were watching, but we were scared the building could explode at any time since there are restaurants with kitchens nearby,” he said.

Magu remains acting chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and cannot be removed by anybody. Ibrahim Magu The  Acting President Yemi Osinbajo fired back at the Senate yesterday. The declaration was an apparent response to the lawmakers who had on Tuesday warned that any further move from him to undermine the powers of the legislative arm of government will amount to crossing the red line. The Red Chamber relied on a comment made by acting president some months ago to suspend further confirmation of appointees of the president. The lawmakers chided the executive arm of government for refusing to strictly adhere to legislative decisions in particular and the 1999 constitution (as amended) in general. But speaking in Kaduna yesterday while commissioning a zonal office of the EFCC, the acting president who was represented by the governor of Kaduna State, Mallam Nasir el-Rufai, described Magu as a “nightmare for corrupt people”. The governor...

“We know they are not ready, but they are ready to rig the election. They just want to sit down somewhere and write the results and we are also planning how to counter that. We are very, very ready to win that election. The party Chairman, Chief Segun Adewale, who addressed journalists at the PDP secretariat at Sogunle, Ikeja alongside the secretary, Mr Jide Ladeinde, affirmed that the PDP was very ready for the council election, saying that it was very obvious that the APC was not so ready. The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Lagos chapter has insisted that the upcoming local government election holding on Jul 22, 2017 in all the 20 local governments and 37 local council development areas (LCDAs) in the state must come up, saying the exercise must not be postponed irrespective of the intra crisis within the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). Aggrieved APC aspirants to the councillorship and chairmanship posts together with their supporters across the state are curren...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has arraigned a former Acting Vice-Chancellor of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife, Prof. Anthony Elujoba before

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Tuesday apprend an Assistant Director with the National Examination Council, Muhammadu Umar, before

Islamic cleric Sakariyau Abdul Rofiu disclose how him and other two cult crew  Ibrahim Ayuba and