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The Human Rights Monitoring Agenda (HURMA) has called on President Bola Tinubu to reject the recent amendment to the Nigeria Police Act, 2020. In a press conference held on August 16, 2024, at IPC, Ogba, Ikeja-Lagos, the executive director, HURMA, Olaitan Balogun, said the organisation, committed to defending human rights and ensuring transparent governance, voiced […]

The Federal Government has attributed the dispute leading to the impoundment of three of its aircraft based on the order of a French court to the wrong handling of international affairs by sub-national actors. Minister of Foreign Affairs, Yusuf Tuggar, who made this inference while speaking to journalists in Malabo, the capital of Equatorial Guinea, […]

LABOUR Party’s presidential candidate in the 2023 general election, Peter Obi, has raised concerns over a recent comment by the Executive Secretary of the National Universities Commission’s (NUC), Chris Maiyaki, that producing more PhD holders could address the declining standards in Nigeria’s education system. Obi in a post, on Friday, August 16, via his X […]

A report from Anambra State, South East Nigeria says the State Commissioner for Youth Development, Patrick Agba Mba and his wife, were kidnapped by suspected gunmen this Friday, 16th August, 2024 along the road in Kogi State. Unofficial sources claim that the couple were on their way to Abuja to attend the wedding ceremony of […]

Former Special Adviser to the immediate past Kaduna State Governor Nasir El-Rufai, Jimi Lawal, is set to spend an additional 14 days in the custody of the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) as investigations continue into his alleged involvement in a fraudulent Light Rail Project valued at N11 billion. Recall on […]

(Reuters) – A fistfight broke out in Turkey’s parliament on Friday when an opposition deputy was attacked after calling for his colleague, jailed on charges of organising anti-government protests but since elected an MP, to be admitted to the assembly. Video footage showed MPs for the ruling AKP party rushing in to punch Ahmet Sik […]

The Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has restrained FBN Holdings Plc from holding, conducting or hosting its 12th Annual General meeting scheduled for August 22, 2024, whether virtually or otherwise, pending the determination of a motion for interlocutory injunction filed by an aggrieved shareholder, Tohir Folorunsho Ismaila. Justice Akintayo Aluko gave the order on […]

The High Court sitting in Calabar has granted bail to Ntufam Dr. Oscar Ofuka, a former aide to the immediate past governor of Cross River State, Prof. Ben Ayade. Ofuka facing allegations of murder. In case No. HC/84F/24, Justice Ukpai Ibitham heard Ofuka’s application for the enforcement of his fundamental rights to life, fair hearing, […]

Former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo has reacted to the claim of his Igbo paternity, declaring that such insinuation made him laugh. The disclosure came even as the former President said he doesn’t believe anybody in Nigeria should be driven away from any part of the country, declaring that, “we own this country together.” Obasanjo made […]

Justice Akintayo Aluko of a Lagos Federal High Court, has ordered interim forfeiture of cash sum of $2, 045, million USD, linked to the embattled former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Mr. Godwin Ifeanyi Emefiele. The judge also ordered interim forfeiture of the seven landed properties linked to the suspended CBN Governor. The […]

The Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Lateef Fagbemi (SAN), has said that his office and that of the National Security Adviser, have commenced legal and diplomatic moves to recover three of Nigeria’s presidential aircraft seized in France over a fine awarded against Ogun State. This was contained in a statement by […]

Registrar General of the Corporate Affairs Commission Hussain Ishaq Magaji, (SAN), has written to the attorney general of the federation, Lateef Fagbemi, seeking approval to prosecute the Nigerian Law Society and other corporate entities operating without registration in the country. In a letter signed by the RG and dated 15, August, the CAC said the […]