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The Federal High Court ,Abuja, yesterday ,adjourned the adoption of final written addresses in the case against James Nolan, a director in the Process and Industrial Development (P&ID) Ltd, until November 3. Justice Obiora Egwuatu adjourned the case following the absence Read more…
The Lagos State Police Command said it will on Friday arraign a National Union of Road Transport Workers, NURTW, leader, Shamsideen Adio, popularly known as Shameleon, over the alleged killing of a dispatch rider in Lagos Island. Recalled that, Adio, Read more…
Sowore was reacting to the U.S. government’s stern warning issued to Nigerian politicians and elites involved in corruption, stressing that its visa restrictions extend to even the most “high-profile” individuals. Human rights activist and former presidential candidate of the African Read more…
A Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN, Prof. Awa U. Kalu, has formally written to the Inspector General of Police, IGP, distancing himself from allegations of forgery and impersonation against an Abuja-based lawyer, Victor Giwa. However, despite the letter, the police Read more…
Rivers State Governor, Sir Siminalayi Fubara, has called on the state to embrace the lifting of the state of emergency and the return of democratic governance in the state, as a moment of fresh beginning. Why I Didn’t Challenge Emergency Read more…
Senate President Godswill Akpabio has again been reminded by the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) that it is illegal for him to use his office to prevent Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan (PDP, Kogi Central) from returning to the Senate after the expiration Read more…
Dangote Refinery and Depot and Petroleum Products Marketers of Nigeria are in a war of words over N1.5 trillion fuel subsidy claims. The $20 billion 650,000-barrel-per-day refinery in a statement on Wednesday accused DAPPMAN of requesting N1.5 trillion as subsidies Read more…
The Office of the Clerk to the National Assembly has said it lacks the authority to facilitate the resumption of Kogi Central Senator, Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan. This was contained in a statement issued by the Director of Information in the office, Read more…
A First-Tier Tribunal (Property Chamber) in London has dismissed a case filed by one Tali Shani, which challenged the attempt by human rights lawyer Chief Mike Ozekhome to register a property allegedly gifted to him by the former Minister of Read more…
The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has granted an application filed by the Department of State Services, DSS, to expedite proceedings in the trial of the suspected mastermind of the August 26, 2011 bombing of the United Nations building Read more…
The Federal Government will, on Thursday, arraign the two top leaders of the Ansaru terrorist group, an Al-Qaeda-affiliated network, at the Federal High Court in Abuja. The two commanders are Mahmud Muhammed Usman, aka Abu Bara’a/Abbas Mukhtar, and his deputy, Read more…