A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja yesterday refused an exparte application by five senators seeking to stop the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, from performing his constitutional legislative duties on account of use of the purported forged Senate Standing […]
Justice Olamide Folahanmi of Osun State Judiciary has demanded that she be given Governor Rauf Aregbesola’s response to her petition to the Osun State House Assembly, as a condition for appearing before the investigative committee of the house. She was […]
President Muhammadu Buhari arrived Cameroon on Wednesday for talks on how to combat the escalating regional threat from the Boko Haram sect. AFP reports that security was tight for the 24-hour visit, after a surge of Boko Haram violence in […]
By Amechi Ogbonna Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode, on Tuesday assured visiting UK-Nigeria Emerging Capital Market Taskforce of the readiness of his administration to provide tax and other fiscal incentives that will catalyse greater capital flows into the Nigerian […]
Some legal practitioners in the FCT have urged the Federal Government to improve on the state of prisons across the country. They told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Tuesday that the aim of establishing prisons, which was reformation, […]
Femi Gbajabiamila has emerged as House Leader for the 8th House of Representatives. The Speaker, Yakubu Dogara made the announcement this afternoon on the floor of the House. The announcement came after Dogara returned to the chamber after he left […]
A Chief Magistrate Court in Karu, Abuja, on Tuesday, ordered the remand of a butcher, Garba Mohammed, for allegedly stabbing man with a knife. Chief Magistrate, Omolola Akindele, gave this order after the accused pleaded not guilty to the offence. […]
Ikeja – The Lagos Airport Police Command has arrested a Nigerian passenger, Lawal Oluwabusola, for smoking cigarette in an Arik Air flight on London to Lagos route. In a statement on Sunday by Livinus Chukwuma, the Police Public Relations Officer […]
The National Human Rights Commission, on Monday, ordered the release of six persons from prison custody in Enugu State pending further hearing of their case on August 26. The commission, holding its pre-sitting on public enquiry into cases of demolitions […]
Summons HOS over ‘illegal re-appointment’ HAVING queried the procedure in re-appointing members of the commission, the Lagos State House of Assembly yesterday insisted that the State Judicial Commission stands dissolved. It said during plenary that an earlier directive to the […]