The Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, has dragged President Muhammadu Buhari before the Lagos Division of the Federal High Court over his decision to extend the tenure of the Inspector General of Police, Muhammadu Abubakar. In the suit marked as FHC/L/CS/214/2021, the NBA is seeking judicial determination on whether the...
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By TOM CHIAHEMEN, Abuja – Foremost Nigerian professor of theatre for development, playwright, poet, politician, administrator and activist for social justice, Iyorwuese Harry Hagher, is set to release a novel, ‘The Conquest of AZENGA’. Hagher, who was also a senator, cabinet minister, envoy and pro-chancellor of Afe Babalola University,...
The United States will next week begin the reopening of southern border to asylum-seekers who the Trump administration forced to remain in Mexico while awaiting immigration court hearings. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) disclosed this in a statement on Friday. “Beginning on Feb. 19, the Department of Homeland...
The Chief of Staff, Office of the Speaker, House of Representatives, Alhaji Sanusi Rikiji has called on Youths to be self reliant and shun violence. Alhaji Rikiji made the plea during the distribution of 500 Motorcycles and 500 Tricycles to the people of Zamfara State. The Chief of Staff...
President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the establishment of a Public-Private Partnership styled Infrastructure company named Infra-Co with an initial seed capital of N1 Trillion. It is envisaged that, over time, the entity will grow to N15 Trillion in assets and capital. Infra-Co will be one of the premier infrastructure...
Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom has described as disappointing, the comments made by his Bauchi State counterpart, Bala Mohammed who blamed him for what he termed ‘negative perception of Fulani herders’ when he spoke on the current security situation in the country. Governor Ortom in a communique on Friday...
The United Kingdom Supreme Court has ruled that polluted Nigerian communities can sue oil giant Shell in English Courts. According to BBC Africa, the decision overturns a previous Appeal Court ruling and represents a victory after a five-year legal battle. The Niger Delta communities say decades of pollution have...
An Upper Area Court in Zuba, Abuja, on Friday, sentenced a vendor, Hashirmu Babagida, to 12 strokes of the cane for stealing tubers of yam worth N596,000. The police charge Babangida, who resides in Dankogi Garage, Zuba, with theft. Delivering judgment, the judge, Gambo Garba warned Babangida to change...
ARMSTRONG ALLAHMAGANI, Bauchi- The Federal Polytechnic Bauchi in collaboration with the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University on Friday matriculated 240 degree students at the 510 Hall of the Polytechnic in Bauchi. In his opening remarks, the Rector of the Polytechnic, Architect Sanusi Gumau, described the matriculation as history being made...
A 33-year-old man, Damilola Ologunmeta, on Friday, appeared before an Ikeja Chief Magistrates’ Court, for alleged N2 million visa fraud. Ologunmeta, who resides at No. 17, Bale St., Ikorodu Road, Maryland, Lagos is facing a two-count charge of fraud and stealing. He, however, pleaded not guilty. The prosecutor, ASP...
The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) in Delta arrested 20, 095 persons across the state in 2020 for diverse traffic offences. The State Sector Commander, Mr Uchechukwu Wihioka, disclosed this in Asaba on Friday, said that the command recorded 207 crashes, 198 deaths, 476 injured, and cautioned 1,095 from...
Veteran Nollywood Actor, Pete Edochie, has publicly endorsed his son, Yul Edochie, for the 2023 presidential election in the country. Yul Edochie, also a Nollywood star in a video shared on his social media pages on Thursday night said: “My Father Chief Pete Edochie endorses my 2023 Presidential ambition....
The Lagos State Government has sealed five Container Terminals in Kirikiri coast for operating illegally without recourse to the state Urban, Regional Planning and Development Law. The Commissioner for Physical Planning and Urban Development, Dr Idris Salako, disclosed this in a statement signed by the Assistant Director Public Affairs...
There was anxiety in Mbaitoli Local Government Area of Imo State as unknown assailants have chopped off a farmer’s head and private parts. The farmer, identified as Isreal Ihenacho, was suspected to be dismembered by ritualists. The incident which happened around the Orodo Market in Mbaitoli LGA, early hours...
Following the rising kidnapping and banditry bedeviling the country, The Zamfara State Governor, Muhammad Matawalle, has suggested that the only option left for governors of the affected states is to engage the bandits and kidnappers in dialogue for everlasting peace. Governor Mutawalle, who spoke in Yola while on a...
The resurfacing of the avian influenza virus otherwise known as bird flu in Plateau State has left poultry farmers counting their losses as the virus spreads across poultry farms in the state. The poultry disease, which had in the past ruined many poultry businesses had abated as the state...
The Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company (IBEDC), has commenced the distribution of smart prepaid meters to customers under its franchise in Ogun. The Head, Metering, IBEDC, Mr Adewale Obajemu, who launched the programme at Ota, said that the Federal Government planned to distribute one million meters to unmetered electricity customers...
Tokyo Olympics chief Yoshiro Mori is to resign after he sparked outrage in Japan and abroad with his claims that women speak too much in meetings, reports said Thursday. Multiple major Japanese media outlets, citing anonymous sources, said Mori told officials of his wish to step down and intends...
David Oluwafemi Adewunmi Fani-Kayode, controversial, maverick, and feather-weight politician, is known to be loud-mouthed and inconsistent. Even in his private or family life, Femi Fani-Kayode, or FFK, as he is popularly called, is also unstable. With a privileged and distinguished parental background: his great-grand father, being one of the...