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2 Jan
The Chairman of Owan East Local Government Area (LGA) of Edo State, Prince Aminu Okodo-Kadiri, on Thursday, said his purported impeachment and that of his deputy, Clement Ojebuovbo, is unconstitutional and illegal. The impeachment was initiated by councillors of the council's legislative arm over alleged misconduct against the duo. Okodo, who addressed journalists in Benin…
23 Dec
Governor Mai Mala Buni of Yobe has signed the state’s 2025 Appropriation and Finance Bills into laws. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Buni had on Oct 30, presented the bills worth N320.8 billion to the state House of Assembly for the 2025 fiscal year. The assembly had earlier passed the proposed expenditure…
20 Dec
The Niger State Governor, Mohammed Umaru Bago, has signed into law the 2025 appropriation bill of over N1.558 trillion. Bago performed the statutory duty after the State Assembly had passed the budget within a week Bago lauded the efforts of the legislators for the expeditious scrutiny and passage of the bill, describing it as unprecedented.…
26 Oct
No fewer than 196 persons were arrested by the Environmental Sanitation Enforcement Officers in Nasarawa State for violating sanitation laws. Mr Garba Rosha, the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources, disclosed this while briefing newsmen after the sanitation exercise on Saturday in Lafia. Rosha explained that the sanitation defaulters were mostly commercial motorists.…
2 Oct
To ensure that Nigerians have access to legal services regardless of their financial or social status, the European Union (EU), in partnership with the International Institute of Democracy and Electoral Assistance (IIDEA), is supporting the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) in providing free legal advice and services to residents of Ikorodu, Lagos State. As part of…
30 Sep
Gabon and Equatorial Guinea faced off Monday at the International Court of Justice, hoping to resolve a decades-old scrap over the sovereignty of three disputed islands in potentially oil-rich waters. The two West African nations have been squabbling over the 30-hectare (74-acre) island of Mbanie and two smaller low-lying islets, Cocotier and Conga, since the…
28 Aug
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20 May 2024
No fewer than nine alumni of the Faculty of Law at Lagos State University (LASU), Ojo have been appointed judges of the Lagos High Court. The nine newly appointed judges are of the 13 recently appointed to the Lagos State High Court, marking the highest number of appointees from LASU in history, the institution in…
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President Bola Tinubu, yesterday, met with a delegation of Ogoni leadership at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, with a pledge to prioritise peace, justice, and sustainable development in the area.
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The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency’s (NDLEA) proposed integration into the Deep Blue Project to enhance the protection of Nigeria’s maritime space has, again, raised concern over the rising threat of drug trafficking through the waterways.
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The Federal Government said it is working to ensure that yearly capital inflow into Nigerian startup space increases from $1 billion to $5 billion by 2027. The Minister of Communications, Innovation and Digital Economy, Dr Bosun Tijani