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President Muhammadu Buhari has signed into law the National Health Insurance Authority Bill 2022. Mr Buhari, who disclosed this on his Twitter handle at exactly 5:04 p.m on Thursday, said the development is part of his administration’s efforts to ensure health coverage for Nigerians. He said the new bill repeals the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) Act which has been in existence since 2004. “As part of our healthcare reforms, I have signed into law the recently passed National Health Insurance Authority Bill 2022, which repeals the National Health Insurance Scheme Act. We will ensure the full implementation of the…

Tension is brewing among residents of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, following the decision of the minister, Malam Muhammad Musa Bello, to suspend the swearing-in of recently elected area council chairmen earlier slated for Friday. The decision to suspend the event was a result of the judgment of an FCT High Court which granted a one-year tenure extension to the incumbent six Area Council Chairmen whose tenures end today. In March 2019, the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, had conducted Area Council elections in the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, where six council chairmen and their councillors were elected. These six…

An Upper Area Court in Ilorin on Thursday permitted a landlord, Mr Bakinde AbdulWaheed, to break open and change the locks on his tenant’s apartment door over his disappearance for three years. The presiding Judge, Mr Moshood Ajibade, gave the order after AbdulWaheed, reported that his tenant disappeared for three years without any word from him. Ajibade ordered that the two apartments should be forced open in the presence of the landlord, the court orderly and staff of the court. He said that all the property found in the apartments should be itemised and all witnesses must sign on the…

Former deputy spokesperson for the Lagos State Police Command, Aliyu Giwa, has drawn the attention of Nigerians to the rules and regulations applicable to the repainting of cars in Nigeria as contained in the National Road Traffic Regulation 2012. Giwa in a Twitter thread on Wednesday evening educated his followers on the necessary steps to take before changing the colour of their vehicles. The police officer quoted Part 2, Section 13 of the National Road Traffic Regulation 2012 which states that, “Where the colour of a vehicle is to be changed, the owner shall apply for approval from the Authority.”…

A seven-man panel of the Justices of the apex court led by Justice Musa Dattijo, allowed the joinder application that Rivers State brought through the Speaker of its House of Assembly and its Attorney-General, even as it shifted hearing on the suit till May 26. The applicants told the court that the were opposed to the suit marked SC/CV/504/2022, which originally had the National Assembly as the sole Respondent. It will be recalled that President Buhari and Malami had approached the Supreme Court to contend that section 84(12) of the Electoral (Amendment) Act, 2022, is inconsistent with the provisions of…

We raped the girls among the students, killed them after collecting ransom —Bandits •Some bandits being paraded were arrested before, prosecuted but found their way back into society — Source The Police in Abuja yesterday paraded 31 suspects arrested by the IGP Special Tactical Squad, STS, for crimes ranging from kidnapping, armed robbery, culpable homicide, rape, to unlawful possession of arms and ammunition, with two of those paraded being members of the gang that abducted students of Bethel Baptist High School and Greenfield University in Kaduna. The duo said during the period the victims of Bethel Baptist School and Greenfield…

Muhammad Dingyadi, minister of police affairs, says the report of the Justice Ayo Salami-led panel on Ibrahim Magu, former acting chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), is still under consideration. Dingyadi spoke on Thursday during a press briefing organised by the presidential communication team at the presidential villa, Abuja. BACKGROUND In July 2020, while Magu was the acting chairman of the EFCC, he was arrested, detained, and suspended. He appeared before the Salami-led panel probing allegations of gross misconduct against him. In November 2020, the Salami-led panel submitted its report including recommendations, to President Muhammadu Buhari. To…

The Executive Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Abdulrasheed Bawa, who is the fifth prosecution witness, PW5, in the ongoing trial of Abubakar Ali Peters and his company, Nadabo Energy Limited, for an alleged N1.4 billion fraud, on Wednesday, May 18, 2022, further told Justice C.A. Balogun of the Lagos State High Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos, that Peters made only one confirmed genuine transaction in the six transactions involved in the oil business with St. Vanessa. Peters and the company are being prosecuted on a 27-count charge by the EFCC. At the resumed proceedings of the…

Mohammad Bello, FCT minister, has ordered the indefinite closure of Dei-Dei market following a riot. Bello gave the order on Wednesday after inspecting the scene of the incident with Sunday Babaji, FCT commissioner of police, and other security agencies. TheCable had reported that there was a riot at Dei-Dei on Wednesday. While there are varying versions of what led to the riot, some residents said there was an accident involving a motorcycle around the market in the area. The accident was said to have resulted in the chaos that followed. During the riot, several persons were seen with what appeared…

The President of the Court of Appeal, Justice Dongban Mensem has inaugurated members of the Electoral Judicial Manual Committee (EJMC). The new initiative has the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) as development partners. The European Union (EU) and its partners Policy and Legal Advocacy Centre (PLAC) in collaboration with International Federation for Electoral System (IFES) have also offered to sponsor the production of the Electoral Judicial Manual. The proposed Electoral Judicial Manual airding to the President is aimed at enhancing transparency in the dispensation of justice and improvement in the credibility and integrity of the country’s electoral process. At the…