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Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged President Bola Tinubu to “stop the minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Mr Nyesom Wike and Nigeria’s 36 governors from usurping the authority and responsibilities of the National Judicial Council (NJC) and heads of court through giving cars and houses to judges.” SERAP said, “Such practices […]

The Anambra State Government has distanced itself from the recent arrest of Franklin Nwadialo, the Chairman of Ogbaru Local Government, who was apprehended by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in Texas, United States, for allegedly orchestrating a $3.3 million romance scam. In a statement released on Saturday, Dr Law Mefor, the Commissioner for Information […]

The Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Kudirat Kekere-Ekun, has said that while the judiciary has many upright and courageous judges, a few of them are giving it a bad name. Justice Kekere-Ekun, who spoke on Saturday at a public discourse titled Ethics, Morality, and the Law, organised by the Movement for Islamic Culture and Awareness […]

*Prof. Ajayi: Conflicting Judgments Indicate Unreliability Of Nigerian Judiciary, Once Respected Worldwide Emir of Kano, Muhammad Sanusi II, and Chaplain of Emmanuel Chapel Methodist Church, Professor Konyinsola Ajayi, yesterday, dissected the decline of the judiciary in Nigeria, and described it as the second worst source of corruption in the country. Sanusi lamented that although the […]

The SSA Media to the First Lady, Busola Kukoyi, has, on behalf of her principal, refuted claims Senator Oluremi Tinubu is organizing a national prayer event. In a statement on Saturday, she revealed that the news making rounds in some conventional and social media platforms are unfounded and misleading. She said: “Consequently, anyone who might […]

The military says it has uncovered a desperate recruitment drive on social media by terrorists, particularly the ISWAP terrorist group, and vowed that troops will sustain the offensives to eliminate all threats by the terrorists. Director, Defence Media Operations, Maj Gen Edward Buba, disclosed this in a statement on Saturday, affirming that troops operations had […]

The Nigerian Bar Association President, Mazi Afam Osigwe SAN at the NEC meeting recently held at Enugu State appointed a new Council for the Nigerian Bar Association. The new council will be led by Patience Etumudon as Chairperson. The NBA-LWDF is a forum dedicated to promoting the rights and welfare of lawyers with disabilities in […]

The Chairman of the Presidential Tax Reform Committee, Taiwo Oyedele, has stated that businesses will suffer and the economy will regress if state governments are allowed to collect value-added tax (VAT). Speaking in an appearance on Channels Television’s Hard Copy on Friday, Oyedele explained that a similar approach was tried in the 1980s with sales […]

By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu The unraveling of the regime of General Yakubu Gowon shortly after the end of Nigeria’s civil war in the decade of the 1970s began as a tale of two Josephs. One was Joseph Dechi Gomwalk, Gowon’s in-law and governor of his home state. The other was Joseph Sarwuan Tarka, one of […]

Former Lagos State Chairman of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW), Alhaji Musiliu Akinsanya, popularly known as MC Oluomo, was on Saturday elected as the National President of the Union. The newly elected national president has, however, been sworn in accordingly after he emerged as the leader of the NURTW. Other executive officers […]

Babatunde Fashola, former Minister of Power, Works and Housing, has asked Nigerian youths to stay back in the country rather than seeking green pasture abroad amid the economic hardship. Fashola, who said youths must be able to do something better for themselves, noted that an end must be put to the mass exodus of the […]

Republican lawyer Mike Davis, an adviser for Donald Trump who is being talked up as his potential attorney general, already mirrors the president-elect’s crassness and hostility. (Watch the video below.) On a right-wing podcast Thursday, Davis took aim at New York Attorney General Letitia James, who sued the former president for committing business fraud and […]