The federal government has removed tertiary institutions from the Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System (IPPIS) “with immediate effect.” Similarly, the institutions are now to recruit their personnel without recourse to the Office of the Head of Service of the Federation in order to reduce bureaucracy involved in such exercises. …

Vice President Kashim Shettima, former Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), his predecessors and governors of the ruling party are scheduled to discuss transitional politics next week. The APC leaders will gather at a public presentation of a book authored by the immediate-past National …

The political crisis in Rivers State deepened on Wednesday as about 10 bulldozers drove into the premises of the state House of Assembly and started the demolition of the complex. This came as the factional Speaker, Edison Ehie, led other lawmakers loyal to the governor to hold a sitting early …

A Facebook user identified as Onoh Chukwuma on Tuesday reportedly took his own life by ingesting an insecticide allegedly for losing N2.5m to betting. Onoh had on his Facebook wall posted a message saying that it was his last day on earth and that he was going to meet his …