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Hushpuppi: Police Service Commission to carry out separate investigation on DCP Abba Kyari from IGP’s

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By: Kingsley Omonobi – Abuja. The Police Service Commission has said it will conduct it’s own separate investigation into the allegation of bribe leveled against Deputy Commissioner of Police Abba Kyari by convicted fraudster Abbas Ramon, aka Hushpuppi Recall that […]

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Muslim group cries out to Makinde to compensate families of lawyers denied judges positions in Oyo

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By Adeola Badru, Ibadan Political Awareness Group, PAG, has called on Oyo State Government to immortalize three Muslim lawyers who were selected as judges of the high court but died after Governor ‘Seyi Makinde stopped their confirmation. While making the […]

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Man jailed seven years over sale of Kano children

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Ted Odogwu and Tukur Muntari A Kano State High Court presided over by Justice Zuwaira Yusuf on Friday sentenced one Paul Owne to seven years’ imprisonment in addition to N100,000 fine without option for collaborating with six accomplices to kidnap […]

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Troubling questions over Nnamdi Kanu’s ‘secret trial’

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Jesusegun Alagbe The decision by the Federal Government to restrict media coverage for the trial of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, raises some critical questions about the government’s openness, JESUSEGUN ALAGBE writes Being a democracy, Nigeria’s justice […]

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Ohanaeze kicks as IPOB declares sit-at-home over Kanu’s detention

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•Lawyer institutes judicial process to access client in DSS custody By Innocent Duru and Nicholas Kalu, Abuja The outlawed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) yesterday declared every Monday, effective August 9,2021, a sit-at-home day to press for the release of […]

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Appeal Court ruling a rape on justice, democracy, says Senator Odey

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By Sanni Onogu, Abuja Senator Stephen Odey has described Friday’s Appeal Court ruling that ousted him from the Upper Chamber as a rape on justice and democracy. Odey, in a statement by his media team, in Abuja, reacted to his […]

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What Igboho’s aides told me in DSS custody, lawyer reveals

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Kayode Oyero Pelumi Olajengbesi, counsel for the 12 aides of Yoruba Nation agitator, Sunday Adeyemo aka Sunday Igboho, detained by the Department of State Services has lamented the “sorry situation” of his clients in the custody of the secret police. […]

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Appeal court declares Jarigbe senator representing Cross River North

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Ada Wodu The Appeal Tribunal sitting in Calabar on Friday declared Hon. Jarigbe Agom Jarigbe as Senator-elect in the December 5, 2020 Cross River North Senatorial District by-election. The three-man tribunal headed by Hon. Justice Chioma Iheme-Nwosu dismissed an earlier […]

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Breaking: We’re not aware of $875m ammunition deal with US – Lai Mohammed

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The Federal Government says it is not aware of any $875 million ammunition deal with the US which is being purportedly blocked by some lawmakers in that country. The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, described the purported […]

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Man bags 104 years jail term for masterminding kidnap of children in Kano

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A Kano High Court, on Friday, sentenced Paul Owne to 104 imprisonment for masterminding the kidnap of nine children in the state. Justice Zuwaira Yusuf, who found the convict guilty of all the 38-count charge, sentenced him without an option of […]