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 Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, has criticized a proposed life pension and immunity from prosecution for Bukola Saraki, the Senate President, and other presiding officers of the National Assembly. In a statement Sunday, Mr. Falana described the proposal as insensitive, irrational, and immoral. “Indeed, it is the height of insensitivity for legislators to propose life pension for their leaders at a time that workers are owed arrears of salaries in many states of the federation,” said Mr. Falana, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria.

The Peoples Democratic Party in Edo State has nominated Osagie Ize-Iyamu as its flag-bearer in the September 10 governorship election in the state. Mr. Ize-Iyamu, a lawyer and pastor, defeated two other challengers – Solomon Edebiri; and Mathew Iduoriyekemwen. In the result of the primaries announced by Governor Dave Umahi of Ebonyi, Chairman of the committee that conducted the exercise, Mr. Ize-Iyamu, a former Chief of Staff and Secretary to the Edo State Government, polled 584 votes to defeat two other aspirants.

 Protesting Federal Ministry of Finance workers on Monday blocked their minister, Kemi Adeosun, from accessing her office at the ministry’s headquarters as they demanded “unpaid N1.2 billion special overtime allowances.” The government however said the allowances the workers were demanding was unknown to law. Wielding placards with various inscriptions, the workers, consisting those from the ministry and the Office of the Accountant General of the Federation as well as the Budget and National Planning ministry, locked the entrance to the ministry’s headquarters and prevented the minister from accessing her office when she arrived for work.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has rearrested oil magnate, Jide Omokore. An official briefed on the matter said the businessman would be arraigned alongside Andrew Yakubu, a former Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, who has also been picked up. Our sources said the duo would be charged before Justice Binta Nyako of the Federal High Court, Abuja on a four-count charge of money laundering.

The Senate has summoned the Accountant General of the Federation, the Central Bank governor and the Attorney General over the alleged manner MTN’s N1.04 trillion fine was reduced to N330 billion. It has described the reduction as

On Wednesday, the central bank said it would float the national currency on Monday, but it has given few details on how the new rules will be implemented. Nigeria's commercial banks will set the first exchange rate of the naira versus the dollar when the currency is allowed to float freely on Monday after the central bank abandoned its dollar peg, a senior banking source said on Friday. On Wednesday, the central bank said

This, according to the foundation, is to help actualise the goals of reducing the burden of sickle cell disease in the country The Sickle Cell Hope Alive Foundation (SCHAF) has called on the Federal Government to formally recognise the World Sickle Cell Day (WSCD). This, according to the foundation, is to help actualise the goals of reducing the burden of sickle cell disease in the country.

He noted that with the conclusion of the primaries a new phase that would define the future has commenced. Edo State Governor, Adams Oshiomhole, has described the winner of the APC governorship primary election, Godwin Obaseki as sound at home with governance. He said the governorship candidate is "ready to hit the ground running."

  The Nigerian Senate has accused the Buhari administration of plotting to muzzle the legislature and criminalise legislative processes. The upper chamber said the plot was to cause a leadership change in the National Assembly. The senate’s stance followed criminal charges of forgery slammed on Senate President Bukola Saraki and his deputy, Ike Ekweremadu, by the Federal Government.

The Lagos State Police Command has arrested a man, Ike Iwuanyanwu, for allegedly raping and impregnating his 15-year-old daughter, Priscilla (pseudonym) at Ajao Estate, in the Isolo area of the state.

No fewer than 19 people have been reported dead in a multiple crash at the Fidiwo/Ajebo end of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway. the accident involved a fully loaded commercial bus, a fuel tanker and a Dangote truck. The tanker, which was travelling to Ibadan, Oyo State, had attempted to overtake the Dangote truck, when it had a head-on collision with the commercial bus.