President Bola Tinubu has assented to the Electricity Act (Amendment) Bill, 2024, into law. The Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Ajuri Ngelale, announced this in a statement on Friday. He said the Electricity Act (Amendment) Bill, 2024, seeks to address the development and environmental concerns of host communities, and sets aside…
Madagascar’s justice minister defended a new bill Friday to castrate child rapists, with the measure deemed “cruel, inhuman and degrading” by Amnesty International. The upper house Senate approved the measure permitting chemical and surgical castration after it had been voted through by the National Assembly earlier this month. Amnesty International urged Antananarivo to drop the…
Abdulazeez Isah in Kaduna State has been sentenced to 3years imprisonment following his arrest for parading himself as an official of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). In a statement on Thursday, the Kaduna Zonal Command of the anti-graft agency said it has successfully obtained a conviction and imposed a three-year prison sentence on…
The Chief of Staff to the President, Femi Gbajabiamila says social media has become a societal menace and must be regulated. While representing President Bola Tinubu at the launch of a book written by Babatunde Fashola, former minister of works, on Thursday in Lagos, stressed the importance of accurate information in policy formulation and national…
Thirteen Sudanese migrants died on Thursday after their boat capsized at the coast of Tunisia, 27 others remain missing, according to court spokesperson. Farid Ben Jha, the spokesman for the court in the coastal city of Monastir, said only two out of the 42 migrants who were on board the boat survived after leaving from…
A man was killed by an electric shock after climbing on top of a stationary Eurostar train in Paris, a police source and prosecutors said on Friday. The man crossed over tracks from another platform at the Gare du Nord station to the Eurostar at around 10:00 pm (2100 GMT) on Thursday, according to the…
CBN Governor Olayemi Cardoso has reassured Nigerians that the prevailing economic challenges will soon be a thing of the past. Cardoso said this during a meeting held on Friday with the Senate and President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s economic team, addressing concerns regarding the nation’s economy, widespread hunger, and the depreciation of the Naira. “It is…
Justice James Omotosho of the Federal High Court in Abuja has granted bail to the suspended Dean of Faculty of Law, University of Calabar, Professor Cyril Ndifon, to the tune of N250 million in the sexual harassment and gratification case instituted against him by the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC). The…
Abia State High Court, sitting in Umuahia, has adjourned till February 16 a N1.5 billion defamation suit filed by ex-Gov. Theodore Orji against a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Prince Benjamin Apugo. When the matter was called up for hearing, the plaintiff was represented by his counsel, Chief Henry Balogu, while the defendant…
The Enugu State government and the Small and Medium Enterprises Development Agency of Nigeria (SMEDAN) have launched N1 billion fund to empower Nano, Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (NMSMEs) in Enugu State. This was according to an X post by Dan Nwomeh, Senior Special Assistant on Media to Governor Peter Mbah of Enugu State, where…
