President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday asked the Senate to confirm the nomination of nine Resident Electoral Commissioners appointed for the Independent National Electoral Commission.

Buhari’s request was contained in a letter sent to the Senate, which was read on the floor of the Senate by its President, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki.

President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday swore in the remaining seven permanent Secretaries out of the 22 appointed earlier in the year. The inauguration preceded the Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting and had the cabinet members and serving permanent secretaries as well as some guests of the new officials in attendance. The President did not deliver any inauguration address after the signing of the inauguration register as the FEC meeting progressed afterwards.

Yesterday's outburst by the Deputy Governor of Kano state, Prof. Hafiz Abubakar may have rattled the state governor, Dr. Abdullahi Ganduje as he has reportedly ordered the reinstatement Hafiz's brother as the chairman of the All Progressives Congress in Mandawari ward. Recall that on Tuesday an audio clip emerged wherein Prof. Hafiz was overheard furiously lamenting that the governor had sidelined him in the running of the state and party.

The House of Representatives, on Wednesday, adopted a resolution calling for the removal of multiple security checkpoints on roads across the country to facilitate free flow of traffic.

The house also urged security agencies to collaborate with one another in the discharge of their duties and avoid waste of resources through the erection of multiple makeshift roadblocks.

The resolution which was unanimously adopted by the members followed a motion under matters of urgent public importance and sponsored by Rep. Obinna Chidoka (Anambra-PDP).

Ovation Magazine boss, Dele Momodu has revealed that the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara was almost buried alive in his childhood after it was observed that he stopped breathing. Momodu who made the disclosure in Dogara's Biograpphy "A Reed Made Flint" said Dogara suffered several health challenges in his childhood and stressed that at one point his neighbours called on his father to bury him.

Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo has on Tuesday said the $1billion insurgency fund which the state governors asked the Federal Government to withdraw from the Excess Crude Account was not meant for the fight against Boko Haram terrorists alone.

He said the fund is meant to tackle all security challenges confronting various states across the country.

Osinbajo said this at the opening of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation and Secretaries to state governments’ retreat in Abuja.