Olisa Agbakoba, a former president of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), says the Executive did not comply with the constitution in laying the 2018 budget before the National Assembly. He said he would initiate legal proceedings and pray the court to set aside the 2018 budget if the right is not done within seven days. Agbakoba said this in letters on 3 January, addressed to Senate President Bukola Saraki and Yakubu Dogara, Speaker of the House of Representatives.

Nigeria’s power transmission grip suffered collapse Tuesday night, a development that led to widespread blackout across the country. It was learnt that the collapse was due to a fire incident on the Escravos Lagos Pipeline System of the Nigerian Gas Processing and Transportation Company Limited.

The National Chairman of the Action Democratic Party (ADP) says the level of corruption in the current administration is far more than was obtained in previous administrations, especially the Jonathan administration that has remained the reference point for the government. The National Chairman of the party, Yabaji Yesufu stated this on Tuesday during an interview with The Sun.

The Federal Government’s special delegation, led by Foreign Affairs Minister Geoffrey Onyeama on Wednesday departed Abuja for Tripoli, the Libyan Capital to evacuate Nigerians trapped in that country, News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports. The Head, Press and Public Relations of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP), Mr Josiah Emerole, made this known in a statement in Abuja.

President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday invited stakeholders in the oil sector including the Minister of States for Petroleum Resources, Ibe Kachikwu and the Group Managing Director of Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Baru Maikanti to the State House over the lingering fuel scarcity across the country.

The Traditional ruler of Umuoha Obuoffia community, Nkanu West Local government of Enugu state, Igwe Obiora Igwesi on Tuesday urged President Muhammadu Buhari to seek reelection in 2019, assuring that his people would massively vote for him. Igwe Obiora who made the declaration when he received the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity,