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Nigeria’s Labour Party (LP) has initiated legal action against its members in the National Assembly who defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC). The party is seeking a court declaration that the seats of the defecting lawmakers be declared vacant and is demanding the return of all salaries, allowances, and privileges received since their defection. […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’s Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has granted bail to the immediate past Governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello, in the sum of ₦500 million. Presiding judge, Justice Emeka Nwite, on Friday, ordered that the former governor provide two sureties with similar financial responsibility. The sureties must submit affidavits of means and own properties […]
Continue ReadingBig Brother Naija (BBNaija) star, Angel Smith has announced that she will be getting married soon. On the heels of Angel’s rumored breakup with her boyfriend, Soma, the announcement, made on her X handle, has left fans stunned and wondering about the identity of her mystery fiancé. Angel and Soma had unfollowed each other on […]
Continue ReadingLast week’s arrest of good-governance activist and lawyer, Mr Dele Farotimi, in Lagos by police from Ekiti State got many Nigerians angry for many reasons. Farotimi was arrested based on the petition by Chief Afe Babalola, SAN, that Farotimi defamed him in his book, Nigeria and its Criminal Justice System. The uproar was not because […]
Continue Reading37-year-old Nigerian man, Abiola Ayorinde Kayode, has been extradited to the District of Nebraska in the United States on a charge of Conspiracy to Commit Wire Fraud filed in 2019. Kayode, who is accused of being part of a $6 million business email compromise (BEC) scheme between 2015 and 2016, was on the FBI’s Most […]
Continue ReadingLagos State High Court sitting in Ikeja on Thursday, December 12, convicted and sentenced a businesswoman, Oluremi Ebun Phillips, to 17 years imprisonment for defrauding a company, AYM Shafa Limited, of N57,690,000. Nigeria’s EFCC said Phillips and her company, Omritas Energy Limited, sometime in 2016, in Lagos, fraudulently converted and stole the sum of N57,690,000, […]
Continue ReadingLaw Firm of Afe Babalola has submitted a petition to the Legal Practitioners Disciplinary Committee seeking the removal of a lawyer and human rights activist, Dele Farotimi, from the roll of Nigerian legal practitioners. The petition alleged that Farotimi violated certain provisions of the rules of professional conduct for lawyers. The 90-page petition, dated December […]
Continue ReadingGhana has taught both Nigeria and the US a masterclass in electoral integrity and democratic maturity in its just concluded election. For Nigeria, the takeaway is that electoral integrity is the cornerstone upon which trust and order rest. When an election is conducted with the meticulous precision of a weaver at a loom — its […]
Continue ReadingDr. Opeyemi Abioye, a medical expert, has called on Nigerian journalists in Ekiti State, Nigeria, to quit alcohol and engage in regular sex for them to be fit and maintain a healthy lifestyle. While speaking during a Health Talk to mark the 2024 NUJ Press Week in Ado Ekiti, on Wednesday December 4, he enjoined […]
Continue ReadingThe leader of the United Kingdom’s Conservative Party, Kemi Badenoch, was born in the UK in 1980 to Nigerian Yoruba parents, has hit back at Vice President Kashim Shettima over the latter’s reaction to her comments about Nigeria. Badenoch, who grew up in Nigeria before departing the country for the UK at the age of […]
Continue ReadingVice President Kashim Shettima has criticised the newly elected British-Nigerian UK Conservative Party leader, Kemi Badenoch, for making disparaging remarks about Nigeria. While speaking at the 10th Annual Migration Dialogue at the State House in Abuja on Monday, Shettima emphasized that migrants are a vital source of life in all societies. He said: “Kemi Badenoch, […]
Continue ReadingOne of the tenets of a democratic society is the assurance of freedom of speech and expression for its citizens. This includes the right to speak and criticise in order to ensure that society does not derail in upholding its values. The test of democracy is not at the point of comfortable tolerance of these […]
Continue ReadingA Nigerian man (name blocked) has been quoted by one Okey Aliyu as saying, that a man, as the head of the family, has every right to slap his wife and she must not retaliate. The man was said to have stated this on a Facebook post about the 16th Emir of Kano, Muhammad Sanusi, […]
Continue ReadingAtsi, the younger sister of Taraba State Governor, Agbus Kefas, has died from gunshot injuries she sustained in a police accidental discharge. A source close to the Taraba State Government confirmed to Daily Trust that she died in an undisclosed hospital in Abuja where she had been receiving treatment after the incident. Atsi, 44, was […]
Continue ReadingI was quite ecstatic about Kemi Badenoch’s miraculous slaying of the Goliath of the British establishment and emerging as the head of the Conservative Party and is now leader of the Opposition. I felt disappointed by the rather lukewarm reception of this great news especially in Nigeria and Africa. I drafted this opinion piece and […]
Continue ReadingUnited States Embassy in Nigeria has reviewed its immigration visa processes for immigrants and reviewed processes will begin from January 1, 2025. A directive which was announced on its official X page on Tuesday, the embassy says applicants with interviews will now visit the Consulate General in Lagos at least twice during the process. It […]
Continue ReadingNigerian Security operatives have arrested a notorious kidnapper, Terry Tinate Augustus, popularly called “Black” in Ilaje Local Government Area of Ondo State, Nigeria. Augustus, an acclaimed pastor from Ajapa community in Ese Odo LGA of Ondo State, was arrested by the Amotekun Corps in collaboration with the Special Assistant to the Ondo State Governor on […]
Continue ReadingPaul Anyebe was a judge of the High Court of Benue State in North-Central Nigeria, who had a young son with sticky fingers and a sense of adventure. It was his role as a dad that endangered his job as a judge. One night around 1983, Anyebe caught his son attempting to steal from his […]
Continue ReadingThe German Embassy announced in a statement that the German President, Frank-Walter Steinmeier was scheduled to arrive Nigeria on Tuesday, December 10, 2024 and will stay till December 12, 2024. “While in Abuja, President Steinmeier will meet with the President of Nigeria, His Excellency Bola Ahmed Tinubu as well as with the President of the […]
Continue ReadingThe magistrate court sitting in Ado-Ekiti has again refused to admit human rights activist, Dele Farotimi to bail, in the charge brought by the Commissioner of Police, against him over alleged cybercrime. Farotimi was taken to court for allegedly defaming senior lawyer and the founder of Afe Babalola University, Ado-Ekiti, Afe Babalola SAN. During the […]
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