The Supreme Court has fixed January 26, 2024, for judgment in the appeal by a former member of the House of Representatives Farouk Lawan who is presently in jail. A five-member panel led by Justice John Okoro chose the date after lawyers to parties made their final submissions and adopted their written briefs. Lawan’s appeal…
Human Rights lawyer, Femi Falana, SAN, says the problems the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) is facing in conducting credible elections would be complicated by the appointment of members of political parties as Resident Electoral Officers. Falana was commenting on the newly-appointed INEC RECs confirmed by the Senate on Wednesday and Thursday, some of whom…
Senator Dr Tony Nwoye of the Labour Party (LP) was affirmed on Thursday as the duly elected Senator for Anambra North Senatorial District, by the court of appeal sitting in Lagos. The three-member panel held that the appeals against the lawmakers lacked merit and unmeritorious. The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) had, on Feb. 25,…
The Governor of Ebonyi State, His Excellency, Rt. Hon. Francis Ogbonna Nwifuru has commenced the distribution of 2 million naira each to beneficiaries of his skill acquisition empowerment scheme. In a statement by the Special Assistant to the Governor on New Media, Leo Ekene Oketa, he emphasized that the scheme is geared towards empowering 1500…
Unconfirmed report says Russian President Vladimir Putin is dead. According to a mysterious Russian Telegram channel called “General SVR” and Valery Solovey, a prominent Russian political analyst, Putin died on Thursday, Oct. 26. So the big question is who is the man parading himself as Russia’s President? Valery Solovey says the Putin we see now…
A Lagos State High Court sitting in Tafawa Balewa Square on Thursday sentenced a 24-year-old motorcycle rider, Idris Agunbiade, to 21 years imprisonment for armed robbery. Justice Sherifat Sonaike sentenced Agunbiade after she found him guilty of the offence of conspiracy to commit robbery and armed robbery. The judge said that the sentence should run…
The House of Representatives, on Thursday, has hinted on the need to declare a state of emergency on malaria given the spate of the bacterial disease across the country. To this end, the House called on the Federal Government to subsidise malaria drugs if it cannot make them free at all government-owned health centres for…
The Lagos State Command of the Federal Road Safety Corps, on Thursday, called on stakeholders in the Lagos State transportation sector to make a law that would stop the sale of alcohol and drugs in motor parks across the state to reduce road fatalities. Speaking at the 2023 Ember Months Road Safety Campaign flag-off on…
BUA Industries Limited has been given a seven-day deadline by the Nigerian government, to submit and produce specific tax documents. Recall that some weeks back BUA Cement PLC made headlines for announcing that the price of their cement would drop from approximately N5,000 to N3,500. Per bag FIRS has demanded that the company settles with…
The Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, has condemned reports of insufficient stock of currency notes in the country. CBN through its Director Corporate Communications, Isa AbdulMumin, noted that there is sufficient stock to facilitate economic activities in the country. He made this known on the CBN Twitter handle X platform. In his words: “The attention…
