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charges members to fast-track judicial system   Oyo State Governor, Engineer Seyi Makinde, said on Tuesday that his administration would work with the judiciary to bring about the needed reforms that will make Oyo State greater. The Governor, who stated this while inaugurating the State’s Judicial Service Commission, maintained that...

  Even as legality or otherwise of the Amotekun, the South-west security outfit is being debated, the Jigawa state Hisbah Board said it arrested fourteen suspected gays and twelve rapists in the year 2019 across the 27 local government. State commandant, Ibrahim Dahiru Garki, confirmed the arrest in an interview...

Mr Stanley Nwabuisi, member representing Ikwuano constituency in Abia House of Assembly, on Tuesday decried the involvement of the military in elections in the country. Nwabuisi made the call in an interview with News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja. According to him, “our laws do not allow the military...

The newly enthroned Governor of Imo State, Senator Hope Uzodinma, has issued an order freezing all bank accounts belonging to the state government with effect from January 14, 2020. According to The SUN Newspaper, the “Order of Post No Debit” was issued by the Director-General of Hope Uzodinma’s Campaign Organisation,...

The Lagos State Government on Tuesday said it would deploy the Public Private Partnership (PPP) model to tackle infrastructure challenges in the state. Gov. Babajide Sanwo-Olu made this known at a stakeholders engagement of the Lagos State Infrastructure Maintenance and Regulatory Agency (LASIMRA), at Onikan, with theme ”Private Partnership on...

  Mike Ozekhomhe too   The Southern and Middle Belt Leaders Forum has condemned the decision of the federal government to declare Amotekun, a security outfit set up by Sout-west governments, illegal. The forum described by the position of the government, delivered by the Attorney General and Minister of Justice,...

The Senior Pastor of Awaiting The Second Coming Of Jesus Christ, Adewale Giwa has disclosed that he isn’t surprised that Revd. Father Ejike Mbaka’s prophesy of Hope Ozodinma being declared Imo State governor has come into fulfilment. The Supreme Court yesterday declared Hope Uzodinma winner of the 2019 governorship election...

US President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial in the Senate is set for next week Tuesday after key players have been sworn in. According to majority leader Mitch McConnell, the House of Representatives will deliver the articles of impeachment against Trump to the upper chamber today. “We believe that if that...

  Abdul Mahmud, a lawyer, social critic and human rights advocate, has faulted the decision of the Supreme Court to sack Emeka Ihedioha of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as the governor of Imo State. The apex court had sacked Ihedioha and pronounced Hope Uzodinma of the All Progressives Congress...

A Taxation Expert, Mrs Morenike Babington-Ashaye, has advised Nigerians to support the full implementation of the Finance Bill 2019 signed into law by President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday. Babington-Ashaye, also President, International Centre for Tax Research and Development, gave the advice on Tuesday while addressing newsmen in Lagos. The new...