President Muhammadu Buhari has signed five bills passed by the 8th National Assembly into law, Mr Umar Yakubu, his Senior Special Assistant on National Assembly Matters (House of Representatives) has said. Yakubu who made the announcement at a news conference on Wednesday in Abuja said that the Acts were to ensure good governance in the country. The bills include Obafemi Awolowo University Transitional Amendment Act, Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University, Bauchi Amendment Act, University of Maiduguri Amendment Act, National Fertiliser Quality Control Act and the Nigerian Council of Food Science and Technology Establishment Act. He said that the University Acts specified…

Protesters set cars on fire and threw petrol bombs at police in the Spanish city of Barcelona on Wednesday, intensifying unrest sparked by the sentencing of Catalan separatist leaders who had sought to declare an independent state. Divisions over a drive to split the northeastern region of Catalonia from Spain roiled the country in 2017, and re-surfaced on Monday when the Supreme Court sentenced nine politicians and activists to up to 13 years in jail. Peaceful demonstration throughout Wednesday deteriorated after nightfall into clashes between police and protesters, prompting regional government leader Quim Torra to demand an immediate return to…

President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday ordered a crackdown on abuse at Islamic schools, after a second police raid in less than a month revealed men and boys subjected to beatings, abuse and squalid conditions. Nearly 300 had been held captive at a school in the Daura area of Katsina, the hometown of President Muhammadu Buhari, where police said they discovered “inhuman and degrading treatment” following a raid on Monday to free the remaining students. Late last month, police freed hundreds from similarly degrading conditions in neighbouring Kaduna state. “Mr. President has directed the police to disband all such centres and…

Barely four months after inauguration of the ninth National Assembly, leadership of the Senate is allegedly enmeshed in job recruitment scandal totally 100 slots. The job recruitment, allegedly given to some key leaders in the National Assembly is not going down well with some senators. A source familiar with the development said a top revenue-generating agency approved the allotment of 100 recruitment slots for senators. He said rather than spread the recruitment as it was always done in the past, the leadership allegedly shared the plum slots. He claimed some presiding officers got over 20 slots each while over 100…