The Federal High Court sitting in Awka, Anambra State, has vacated its order sacking the Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Usman Alkali Baba. The court upheld the right of Baba to fair hearing as enshrined in Section 36 of the 1999 ...
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Feed SubscriptionTinubu Warns Against Using Court Orders To Truncate Democracy
President Bola Tinubu on Monday cautioned against arbitrary court orders aimed at truncating Nigeria’s democracy. Mr Tinubu, in his first Democracy Day speech as Nigeria’s 16th president, said, “It has become imperative to state here that the unnecessary, illegal orders ...
Read More »NGO Submits FoI Request On Nigeria Air Scandal
Connected Development, a pan-African organisation has submitted a Freedom of Information (FOI) request on the Nigeria Air scandal to the Federal Ministry of Aviation. In a letter addressed to the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry and signed by the Chief ...
Read More »CSOs, Pro-democracy Groups Vow To Protest Fuel Subsidy Removal, Fraud Tomorrow Monday
Organised Civil Society Organisations (CSOs), and pro-democracy groups declare June 12 as a day of national protests against petrol subsidy removal, fraud and the hike in fuel price According to a press statement on Saturday by Olawale Okunniyi on behalf ...
Read More »Despite Tinubu’s Plea, Yari, Kalu, G-6 Refuse To Shift Ground
…Make last minute move to secure APC lawmakers’ support …Pro-Akpabio/Abbas camp intensify lobby of opposition …Nation’s stability should be supreme – Shettima Barely 48 hours to the inauguration of the 10th National Assembly, top contenders for principal offices of the ...
Read More »We Were Instructed Not To Give Election Result Copies To Agents – INEC Staff Tells Tribunal
A staff of the Independent National Electoral Commission, (INEC), Abedemi Joseph, on Friday, told the Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC) that they were instructed by the Commission, their employer, not to give copies of election results to political party agents, ...
Read More »Court Orders Keyamo To Pay Atiku N10m For Filing Frivolous Suit
Justice James Omotosho of the Federal High Court in Abuja has awarded a N10 million fine against the immediate past minister of state for labour and employment, Festus Keyamo, for filing a frivolous suit against Alhaji Atiku Abubakar of the ...
Read More »What public officers can learn from Kumuyi at 82
The international journalist, Baffour Ankomah of Ghana, is reported to have recorded the lengthiest interview session with Pastor William Folorunso Kumuyi, General Superintendent of Deeper Christian Life Ministry, DCLM. As editor of the London-based New African monthly magazine, Ankomah ran ...
Read More »Governor Umo Eno’s Unfolding Script
By Osondu Ahirika The story is told of a Sunday school class that had been asked the question, “In time of discouragement, what is your favourite scripture?” A young man’s answer was, “The Lord is my Shepherd, I shall not ...
Read More »10th NASS: Intrigues In Senate Threaten Akpabio’s Endorsement
As the crisis over the leadership of the 10th National Assembly festers, panic has gripped Senators in the camp of former governor of Akwa Ibom State, Senator Godswill Akpabio, following suspicion that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu may withdraw his support ...
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