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Arming citizens dangerous, will increase crime rate, says Umar
A former Military Governor of Kaduna State, Col. Abubakar Dangiwa Umar (retd), has frowned at the recent directive by the Zamfara State government urging...
Lagos developers swindle 70 accommodation seekers, victims faint
Two developers, Oluwasegun Adewara, and one Okeowo, have gone into hiding after allegedly defrauding no fewer than 70 prospective tenants at Lawanson, in the...
How kidney donor, Nwamini refused to return to Nigeria – Ekweremadu
Senator Ike Ekweremadu, former deputy senate president, has explained that David Ukpo Nwamini, the would be kidney donor of his daughter, Sonia refused to...
Sterling Bank staff disappears with customers’ N300m
Favour Fame-Eruagbere, a staff of Sterling Bank Plc, Effurun, Delta State Branch, is currently on the run after allegedly defrauding customers of the bank...
DSS invites Ebonyi PDP scribe over wedding cake bearing Biafra colours
The Department of State Services (DSS) has invited Mr. Nwoba Chika Nwoba, publicity secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), in Ebonyi State over...
Organ donor: FG investigates release of personal data
Dr. Vincent Olatunji, the Chief Executive Officer of Nigeria Data Protection Bureau (NDPB), the federal government agency in charge of data privacy, has ordered...
JUST IN: Court refuses Nnamdi Kanu’s fresh application for bail
The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja on Tuesday turned down a fresh application for bail by Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, the detained leader of...
Nigerians to pay more for beverages as FG slams N10/litre tax...
In a bid to combat non-communicable diseases, the Federal Government has commenced the implementation of the N10 per litre sugar tax on carbonated drinks...
Olokun priest attire: Court declines to hear lawyer’s case
Justice Tijani Ringim of a Federal High Court in Lagos on Monday refused to hear two cases of a human right lawyer, Malcolm Omirhobo,...
Ekweremadus sue NIMC, Immigration, wants court to order release kidney donor’s...
Ike Ekweremadu, former deputy senate president, and his wife, Beatrice, have sued the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) over the controversy surrounding the real...
Tanko Muhammed’s exit: Public confidence in judiciary at all-time low, says...
Olumide Akpata, President of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Olumide Akpata, has said that public confidence in the judiciary is currently at “an all-time...
Exit of Justice Ibrahim Tanko Muhammad, CJN
By Reuben Abati
Yesterday, Nigerians before mid-day, were treated to the news that Justice Ibrahim Tanko Muhammad, Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN) had resigned his...
APC disowns leaked document on 2023 poll rigging plans
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has disowned a purportedly leaked document claiming it budgeted N6.5 trillion for vote-buying to ensure victory at the 2023...
Buhari bestows GCON title on former CJN, Tanko Muhammed
President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday bestowed Nigeria’s second-highest national honour of the Grand Commander of the Order of the Niger (GCON) on outgoing Chief...
Army jails 30 soldiers, dismisses 4,227 others standing trial
The General and Special Court Martial set-up by Joint Military Task Force, Operation Hadin Kai, in North East, has sentenced 30 soldiers to imprisonment...
JUST IN: Buhari explains why Tanko Muhammad resigned as CJN
President Muhammadu Buhari has given insight into what prompted the sudden resignation of Justice Tanko Muhammad from office as the Chief Justice of Nigeria...
Herder reportedly stabs Lagos bus driver, conductor to death for killing...
A herdsman has reportedly stabbed a commercial bus driver and his conductor to death for knocking down and killing two of his two cows.
A...
More details emerge on why Tanko Muhammad resigned as CJN
Allegations of corruption levelled against Justice Tanko Muhammad, the former Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), who resigned on Monday, might have forced his ouster...
OLUKAYODE ARIWOOLA: Nine facts about the new acting CJN
Following the resignation of the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Tanko Mohammed on Monday over alleged ill-health, President Muhammadu Buhari has sworn-in Justice...
129 lawyers make 2022 shortlist for SAN rank
The Legal Practitioners’ Privileges Committee (LPPC) has shortlisted 129 lawyers for the conferment of Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) rank in 2022.
Among the list...
