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The Body of Senior Advocates of Nigeria, BoSAN, on Monday, called for the establishment of a National Constitutional Court that will be saddled with the responsibility of determining all election related cases. The legal body, which made the demand at a special court session the Federal High Court held to mark its 2022/2023 legal year, … [Read more…]
President, Network of Civil Society Organizations of Nigeria (NOCSON), Comrade Emmanuel Ogbidi, yesterday, dared the federal government of Nigeria to release names of those involved in the oil theft and bunkering in the country irrespective of how highly and lowly placed the individual might be. He made the call while marking the World Human Rights … [Read more…]
The Supreme Court of Nigeria on Friday affirmed the Ebonyi State Governor, Dave Umahi, as the authentic candidate of the All Progressive Congress, APC, for the Ebonyi South Senatorial District election. In a unanimous decision, a five-man panel led by Justice Kudirat Ekekere-Ekun dismissed an appeal that was filed by an aggrieved aspirant for the … [Read more…]
Governor Ahmadu Fintiri of Adamawa State has accused Godwin Emefiele, Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor of targeting the political class with the cash withdrawal limit policy. The planned policy of the CBN to limit daily cash withdrawal for individuals to N20,000 daily and N100,000 and N500,000 per week for individuals and corporate bodies respectively, … [Read more…]
“I must tell you that our leader, Professor George Obiozor; the President General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo called me the same day when the issue came up and said he is preparing for us to go to the president and persuade him to do the right thing and I told him that I am ready. Very … [Read more…]
The National Working Committee of the Labour Party has relieved its acting National Publicity Secretary, Comrade Abayomi Arabambi of his duties. It also dissolved the party’s Ogun State Executive Committee effective immediately. The decision was part of far reaching decisions taken during the NWC meeting holding in Abuja, on Friday. Arabambi had written a petition … [Read more…]
The state government has sent a repeal of the Lagos State Electricity Law of 2018 to the State House of Assembly. Lagos State Government on Thursday announced that it was putting in place measures that would see it take away the regulation of the state’s electricity from the Nigerian Electricity Regulation Commission (NERC). To achieve … [Read more…]
Human rights lawyer Femi Falana has faulted the 48-hour ultimatum by the Department of State Services (DSS) to the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited and oil marketers to end the lingering fuel scarcity in the country over security threats. DSS Spokesman, Peter Afunanya, on Thursday, stated that failure to make Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) … [Read more…]
On the 2nd of December, during a parley with members of the Senior Executive Course No. 44 (2022) of the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies, Kuru, held at the State House Banquet Hall, Abuja, The Nigerian President Major General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd.), had in a statement, accused governors in different states of the … [Read more…]
Nigeria’s Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), General Lucky Irabor, has declared that security agencies are always under pressure to compromise elections in the country. He has, however, called on Nigerians to have implicit confidence in Nigerian military officers and men who will remain totally committed to being neutral and apolitical. Speaking with newsmen Thursday at … [Read more…]
Federal Government agencies and petroleum marketers have undertaken to end the crippling shortage of petrol across the country that has seen pump prices hit N285 per litre. Speaking after a meeting at the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority, NMDPRA, in Abuja on Thursday, the operators said the depots … [Read more…]
Members of the Catholic Diocese of Enugu made up of leaders and representatives of the Catholic Men Organisation (CMO), Catholic Women Organisation (CWO), Catholic Youths Organization of Nigeria (CYON), among others, otherwise known as the Catholic laity, from different parishes in the diocese, have converged on the state capital to declare their support and adopt … [Read more…]