Husseini Baba-Yusuf
13 Aug
Two years after his inauguration in October 2021 as Chief Judge of the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT High Court), Husseini Baba Yusuf, decided in November 2023 that it was time to indulge in a sport of institutional mating games with the newly installed Minister of the Federal Capital, Ezenwo Nyesom Wike.
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A Federal High Court sitting in Abakaliki, Ebonyi State capital, on Friday told the National Vice Chairman of the People's Democratic Party (PDP) Southeast, Chief Ali Odefa, to stop parading himself as Vice Chairman of the party. The court affirmed the suspension of Chief Ali Odefa as the National Vice Chairman of the People's Democratic…
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Kwara State government has collaborated with the Universal Climate Initiative (UCI) and the Federal Government's Agro-Climatic Resilience in Semi-Arid Landscapes (ACReSAL) to commence the planting of 160,000 trees across the state. In the move to reclaim degraded lands, the government has planned to use 35 hectares of land in its ongoing statewide campaigns against climate…
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A secondary school teacher at Government Day, Kulende, Ilorin, on Friday beat and tore the vest of a Corps member of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) to shreds for allegedly failing to accord the teacher the respect she deserved. Our reporter gathered that the Corps member had visited the school for her clearance letter…
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The Small-scale Women Farmers Organisation of Nigeria (SWOFON) has stressed the need for state governments to invest at least N15 billion annually in agriculture to boost their Internally Generated Revenue (IGR). The call follows an analysis conducted by ActionAid Nigeria, which reveals that a state's IGR can be significantly boosted if it invests N15 billion…
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Justice Chukwujekwu Aneke of the Federal High Court, Lagos has adjourned until January 30, 2025, to determine whether it has jurisdiction to continue hearing the suit filed by Guaranty Trust Bank (GTBank) against Afex Exchange Commodities Limited, over an alleged N17,808,452,467.17 debt. The Judge adjourned the matter after hearing arguments from Chief Ajibola Aribisala (SAN),…
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The Federal Government in collaboration with the Bank of Industry (BoI), has disbursed N40 billion to 810,945 Micro, Small and Medium entrepreneurs (MSMEs) in 774 Local Government Areas across the country. According to the bank, the disbursement is under the N50 billion Presidential Grants and Loans Scheme (PGLS) to meet the needs of one million…
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Troops on the frontline have neutralised no fewer than 135 terrorists and arrested 185 of them. The troops also arrested 61 perpetrators of oil theft and rescued 129 kidnapped hostages. In the South-South operational theatre, troops reportedly denied oil thieves an estimated sum of Eight Hundred and Eighty-Nine Million Two Hundred and Thirty-Three Thousand Twenty…
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French energy giant TotalEnergies is poised to invest an additional $750 million in Nigeria's gas sector. Mike Sangster, Senior Vice President for Africa at TotalEnergies, confirmed that the company plans to sanction a shallow-water dry gas project called Ima next year, which would further increase LNG supplies, according to Bloomberg. This investment, coupled with the…
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The Federal High Court in Abuja, on Friday, admitted the 109 foreign nationals allegedly involved in cybercrimes to bail in the sum of N1 billion. Justice Ekerete Akpan ordered that all 109 defendants must produce five sureties, each in the sum of N200 million for the five sureties. The sureties must, in addition, be residents…
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Kyiv on Friday said Russian authorities returned over 500 bodies of Ukrainian soldiers killed in combat, with most having died in the eastern Donetsk region. Russia and Ukraine have been exchanging bodies and prisoners of war since the first months of the conflict -- with casualties estimated to be high on both sides. "As a…