A Federal High Court in Lagos has dismissed a N2bn fundamental rights enforcement suit filed against Lagos State by 83 Nigerians of Igbo extraction, who alleged forceful deportation to Anambra State sometime in 2013. The applicants had alleged that Lagos State Government arrested them and transported to Onitsha against their consent in July 2013 on […]
Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, has called on the Peoples Democratic Party to immediately suspend the former president Olusegun Obasanjo for alleged anti-party activities. The Governor described the Thursday visit of five Peoples Democratic Party to Obasanjo as unwarranted, unnecessary and uncalled for, saying “nobody should be treated as being bigger than the party.” Fayose […]
A Federal High Court in Abuja has asked the Attorney-General of the Federation, Mr. Mohammed Adoke, to appear in court to defend the constitutionality of Section 27 of the Terrorism Prevention Act 2013 by which a suspect can be kept in custody for more than 90 days. Justice Adeniyi Ademola gave the directive on […]
The Kano State Governor and presidential aspirant of the All Progressive Congress, Rabiu Kwankwaso, on Friday said that Nigeria would be able to solve the problem of corruption if Nigerians embraced good leadership. Kwankwaso who disclosed this in Benin while addressing APC delegates in Edo State ahead of the party’s presidential primary next Wednesday, said […]
By Akintokunbo A. Adejumo | Ibadan, Nigeria | Dec. 04, 2014 – The news going round is that Nigeria is broke. I, for one, do not believe that fallacy. However, if the treasury is indeed empty or nearing emptiness, then what it means is that this happened because the government, this government and past governments […]
By Akintokunbo A. Adejumo | Ibadan, Nigeria | Dec. 04, 2014 – It always comes down to this. How selfish, greedy and insensitive can some of these our rulers be? They are parasites feeding fat on the blood of the people, causing untold miseries and are like malignant tumours that just will not go away. […]
By Ebun Asagbe | Ado-Ekiti, Nigeria | Dec. 4, 2014 – The events of the past few weeks have every one paying closer attention to news headlines; especially as it relates to the falling price of crude oil, the economy and how it all affects us as Nigerians, both in the short term, and in the […]
By Tochukwu Ezukanma | Lagos, Nigeria | Dec. 4, 2014 – I was recently a guest on a radio talk show. I was to discuss the Nigerian government’s inability, thus far, to contain and defeat the Boko Haram. At one point, the talk show host asked my opinion on the court marshal of mutinous Nigerian […]
The Federal Government is to provide a defence lawyer for the alleged mastermind of the 2010 Independence Day bombing in Abuja, Charles Okah, who is facing terrorism charges before a Federal High Court in Abuja. Charles, a brother to a former leader of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, Henry Okah, is […]
The Katsina State Command of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency has set ablaze 6,795.2 kilogrammes of drugs, including Cannabis sativa (popularly called hemp) among other narcotic substances. The NDLEA Public Relations Officer, Mr. Mitchell Ofoyeju, said hemp constituted 5,879kg of the burnt drugs which were valued at N120m, a statement said on Thursday. The […]
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