President of the Senate, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, on Monday, commended 25 state assemblies for voting on the Constitution Amendment passed by the National Assembly in 2017.

Saraki took to Twitter on Monday, to express his excitement that 25 out of 36 states had voted on the Constitution Review amendments.

The Senate President stated that the passage of the amendments by the 25 States was a testament to the fact that “with the right vision and follow-through, we can achieve ANYTHING as a nation”

He also said that the process was a pointer that “politicians from various walks of life and various parties can still come together to get things done.”

Governor Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa state, says what the Federal Government calls oil blocks in the country are in fact “ancestral properties” of the Niger Delta.

Dickson made the remarks at the foundation laying ceremony of Aziken Petroleum Refinery project at Obunagha Gbarian, Yenagoa, the state capital.

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo laid the foundation for the project which is expected to take off in 2019.

The fate of the Nigerian Peace Corps (NPC) is hanging in the balance as the NPC Establishment Bill transmitted to President Muhammadu Buhari last years is yet to be assented to.

According to report, Buhari, apparently bowing to security advice, has not appended his signature to the NPC Establishment Bill which was officially sent to him in the last week of December 2017.

The report claimed that, “By implication the bill has been rejected by Mr. President since he did not sign it into law within the stipulated 30 working days.

As the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) boasts that it will oust the ruling party in 2019, it was at the weekend inflicted by massive defections in four states.

The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) garnered thousands of defectors in Niger, Kogi, Kebbi and Adamawa states.

In Minna, Niger state, while PDP National Working Committee members were at the Hilltop residence of former President Ibrahim Babangida, more than 35,000 of their members were celebrating their exit from the party.

For refusing to surrender himself to troops after declaring unwillingness to continue with his act of terrorism, the Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen. Tukur Buratai, has again charged troops to capture Abubakar Shekau, the factional leader of the Boko Haram terrorists group, alive or dead.

Buratai gave the charge on Saturday, at Camp Zairo, the former Command and Control Centre of the terrorist group in the Sambisa forest during an operational visit to troops.

In 2017, the army chief gave troops a 40-day ultimatum to capture Shekau and the army recently offered a N3million reward for information on him.

The Nigeria Air Force has waded into the controversy over whether President Muhammadu Buhari commissioned the same drone that his predecessor, Goodluck Jonathan commissioned several years ago.

The Air Force said the two leaders commissioned different drones.

NAF Director of Public Relations and Information, AVM Olatokunbo Adesanya, made the clarification in a statement issued on Friday.