The Centre for Legal Rights Advancement (CLRA), a Non Governmental Organisation (NGO), has called for the abolition of the practice of all forms of corporal punishment in the country. The founder of CLRA, Prof Ben Angwe, made the call in ...
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Akpabio Meets Buhari Over Senate Presidency Ambition
Former Minister of Niger Delta Affairs and now Senator-elect, Senator Godswill Akpabio, has informed President Muhammadu Buhari of his intent to become the President of the 10th Senate. Akpabio disclosed this after meeting with the President at the President Villa, ...
Read More »Bus Evacuating Nigerian Students From Sudan Catches Fire
A bus conveying stranded Nigerians from Khartoum, the Sudanese capital, caught fire in the early hours of Monday. “One of the buses conveying some 50 Nigerian students from Sudan with a tag number (Katsina 1) heading to Port Sudan as ...
Read More »Indomie Noodles On Gov’t Prohibition List – NAFDAC
… Begins market surveillance The National Agency for Food and Drugs Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has reiterated that importing Indomie noodles is banned in Nigeria. Director-general of NAFDAC, Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye, who made this known in a statement on Monday, said ...
Read More »SERAP To Court: INEC Must Probe Govs, Others Over Electoral Violence
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged the Federal High Court in Abuja to direct the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to investigate allegations of electoral violence and other electoral offences against some state governors and their deputies during ...
Read More »Election Tribunal: NLC Threatens To Shame Corrupt Judges
The national president of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Comrade Joseph Ajaero yesterday vowed that the labour centre will create a “hall of shame” for those judges that undermine the tenets of judiciary and come up with ridiculous judgements on ...
Read More »10th Nass Leadership: Lawan, Akpabio At War Over Senate Presidency
…Plot to change Senate rules to accommodate Oshiomhole thickens …Tinubu may opt for former Edo governor …Lawan leading campaign against me – Akpabio Hopes of a former governor of Akwa Ibom State, Senator Godswill Akpabio, to emerge as the president ...
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