archiveSeptember 2019

The Body of Senior Advocates of Nigeria (SAN), on Thursday, canvassed for the establishment of the constitutional court in other to decongest the workload of the present courts in the country. Chief Adegboyega Awomolo (SAN), who represented the chairman of the body, Alhaji Abdullahi Ibrahim (SAN) made the call in...

A Kaduna State-based Islamic cleric, Sheikh Ahmad Gummi, has described the last general elections as the worst ever in the history of Nigeria. He explained that the video evidence made available show that few hundreds of people generated millions of votes. Sheikh Ahmad Gummi made the expression when he hosted...

Justice Inyang Ekwo of the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja on Thursday ordered the forfeiture of assets belonging to Process and Industrial Development Limited (Incorporated in Virgin Island) and its Nigerian affiliate, P&ID Nigeria Ltd in the country. The order of forfeiture was made following the conviction of the...

    A Nigerian, Zahrah Ibrahim, who is a doctorate student at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland, has won the prestigious European Drilling Engineering Association Innovation award. In a post on Facebook, the university said Zahrah won the award for her immense achievement in engineering. The award also comes with...

  The Lagos State Government on Wednesday gave N20,000 to each member of the second batch of 319 Nigerians evacuated from South Africa. The fresh batch of returnees arrived a week after another 178 Nigerians fleeing xenophobia came back from South Africa. The returnees arrived at the Cargo Wing of...

  The Presidency has dismissed claims that Vice President Yemi Osinbajo had been sidelined following President Muhammadu Buhari’s inauguration of an Economic Advisory Team (EAC) to replace the Economic Management Team (EMT). While the EMT was headed by Osinbajo, the newly constituted EAC will report directly to President Buhari. Speaking...

  President Muhammadu Buhari has replaced the embattled Head of Service of the Federation (HOS) Mrs. Winifred Ekanem Oyo-Ita with the approval of the appointment of Dr. Mrs. Folashade Yemi-Esan as the Acting Head HOS with immediate effect. Yemi-Esan, who is the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Petroleum Resources takes over...

  The Nigerian police on Wednesday laid a siege to the offices of news platform, Sahara Reporters; and rights group, Committee for the Defence of Human Rights (CDHR), in Lagos as rights groups condemned the development. Fully armed police contingents was said to have arrived at about 6 a.m. at...

The House of Representatives is set to investigate the circumstances surrounding the $9.6 billion judgment recently secured by Messrs Process and Industrial Developments in a court in the United Kingdom against Nigeria. As part of the probe, the House also resolved to invite the Minister of Justice and Attorney-General of...

The Federal Executive Council (FEC) presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari, on Wednesday, in Abuja approved N8.2billion for the completion and construction of roads across the country. The Minister of Works and Housing, Mr Babatunde Fashola, who disclosed at the end of the meeting, said two of the approvals were...