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A Senior Advocate of Nigeria SAN, Mr Femi Falana has condemned the appointment of partisan politicians as Resident Electoral Commissioners RECs, urging President Bola Tinubu to fulfil his promise to ensure a credible electoral process. Speaking on a morning show on Channels Television Friday, Falana asked stakeholders to legally challenge four new RECs who he […]
Justice O. Adeniji of the High Court in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, on Thursday, ordered the immediate and unconditional release of the immediate past Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele, from the custody of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. The judge gave the order following a motion ex parte taken […]
A former presidential aspirant on the platform of the All Progressives Congress, Tein Jack-Rich, on Wednesday, called for calm in the wake of Monday’s attack on the Rivers State House of Assembly. Jack-Rich also called on political leaders in the state to sheath their swords and ensure that the crisis did not escalate to a […]
The Federal Government has said it is ready to create an enabling environment for increased private sector investment in housing and urban development. This was as it deepened collaboration with the International Finance Corporation as part of strategies to enable private developers to access funding through IFC mechanisms and increase access to affordable housing for […]
In a bid to secure the musical rights of the works of the late singer, Ilerioluwa Aloba, popularly known as Mohbad, the House of Representatives, on Thursday, summoned controversial singer Azeez Fashola, Naira Marley, to appear before it. The House Committee on Justice, Youth and Legislative Compliance, also invited Mohbad’s manager, Jiggy Adeoye, to appear […]
Finally, the eight months legal battle for the presidency of Nigeria has come to an end, with President Bola Tinubu of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, emerging victorious. The Supreme Court, yesterday, agreed with the September 6 verdict of the Presidential Election Petition Court, PEPC, on all counts. The seven-man panel of the apex […]
The Senate on Thursday urged President Bola Tinubu to implement the recommendations of the Presidential Committee for the Development of a Comprehensive Plan of Action against Flooding. The committee had recommended the establishment of a National Flood Management Council in Nigeria. The agency is expected to serve as a central body responsible for coordinating flood […]
The kingmakers in Oyo town, otherwise known as the Oyomesi in Council, have filed a suit seeking to restrain the Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde, from removing and replacing them amid the struggle to select the next occupant of the revered Alaafin of Oyo stool. The suit before the Oyo State High Court in […]
The Federal Government is reviewing and expanding the National Social Register to accommodate pensioners and ex-servicemen under its Conditional Cash Transfer scheme. It is also removing beneficiaries who have excited the poverty line. On Saturday the newsmen gathered that the government was also taking out dead beneficiaries from the register and would disqualify those without […]
A 20-year-old student of the University of Ilorin, Sanni Hameedat, reportedly committed suicide after lending a boy she met on the social media platform, Snapchat, the sum of N500,000. According to Rubiks, the private hostel management she resided in before her demise, in a statement made available to newsmen on Wednesday, Hameedat was undergoing her […]
