Justice Olufunmilayo Atilade It was such a heart-breaking sight the other day when many under-age children were brought out of prisons in Lagos and granted amnesty. It was an embarrassment of maximum proportions not only that so many of them […]
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Nigeria’s senate president Bukola Saraki • Downsizes official aidesSenate President Bukola Saraki yesterday described justice as keeping people safe and administering rule of law. Saraki, who spoke yesterday through Senator David Umoru, at the submission of the National Policy on […]
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo The Acting President, Yemi Osinbajo, has approved the appointment of 21 new permanent secretaries in the Federal Civil Service.Head of the Civil Service of the Federation, Mrs. Winifred Oyo-Ita, announced this in a statement by Mr. […]
Federal High Court in Lagos has struck out a suit by the Federal Government seeking to recover $793,200,000.00 (about N249,659,700,000.00) from seven banks, which it claimed they hid for “unknown” government officials.The banks are: United Bank for Africa Plc, Diamond […]
Picture Source: abcountries.com/xe/?v=NGN STARTING A BUSINESS IN NIGERIA AND ITS TAX IMPLICATIONS By : Ose Binitie (osebinitie@gmail.com) When starting a business, one of the foremost things one might consider would be what kind of business to incorporate. In contemplating that, […]
There was a mid drama at an Idi-Ogungun Customary Court, Agodi-Ibadan on Tuesday when a woman, Suriat Adewale, rejected custody of her three children including a 12-month-old baby. Suriat had protested the decision of the court, granting her custody of […]
A federal court in Rio de Janeiro sentenced a Brazilian judge to eight years imprisonment on Tuesday for driving confiscated luxury vehicles, local media reported. Judge Flavio Souza, who was presiding over criminal proceedings against former billionaire Eike Batista, was […]
Buhari, Saraki, Dogara, others condemn attackIt was all like an action-packed movie.A gunman dressed in black, storming a church and opening fire on worshippers.There was commotion. By the time the gunman left, no fewer than 11 worshippers lay dead. […]
CorruptionA Nigerian writer, Ms Ama Kachikwu, has identified the widespread corruption and “primitive’’ accumulation of wealth as the grave hindrance to the country’s greatness.Kachikwu made the assertion in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in on Tuesday […]
Beware! Lagos July 19, 2017 Fanta and SpriteAkin KuponiyiA Lagos high court has insisted that its order that the National Agency for Food, Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) must mandate the Nigeria Bottling Company (NBC) to include on all bottles […]
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