Chairman, Nigerian Bar Association Section on Public Interest Law (NBA-SPIDEL), Dr Monday Ubani, has urged the Army to release one Private Hannah Sofiat from what he called illegal detention. The female soldier was reportedly detained by the Army for accepting a marriage proposal from a male member of National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) in Yikpata, […]
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The House of Representatives has unanimously passed into law the controversial Infectious Disease bill, at its last legislative day of the year. The Bill, which was introduced into the House at the peak of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020, was aimed at controlling infectious diseases in Nigeria. The Bill, which is sponsored by the Speaker […]
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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said it will continue to deepen the use of technology in the conduct of elections, especially the electronic transmission of polls results and the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS). INEC Chairman, Professor Mahmood Yakubu, who said this yesterday in Abuja, explained that the uploading of Polling Unit results […]
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The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has promised the people of Ondo State that they will celebrate the birth of a new dawn that will usher in joy and prosperity in a new administration controlled by the party in 2023. It said that the silver linings in the sky can be seen that the people of […]
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Urge National Assembly to override President The Leadership of the Northern Youth Council of Nigeria (NYCN) has flayed the decision of President Muhammadu Buhari to refuse signing the Amended Electoral Bill into Law. “If Mr President feels Nigeria is not safe for direct primaries, we wish to further buttress our call for him to resign […]
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By Dare Babarinsa Today is the 20th anniversary of the assassination of Chief Bola Ige, first elected Governor of old Oyo State (now Oyo and Osun) and deputy leader of Afenifere. He was then the Minister of Justice and Attorney General of the Federation, serving in the government of his friend, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo. It […]
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•President Muhammadu Buhari receiving the booster dose of COVID-19 vaccine from his Personal Physician, Dr Suhayb Rafindadi at the Presidential Villa in Abuja … yesterday. With them is an NCDC official Infection afflicting the unvaccinated more, says NPHCDA President Muhammadu Buhari has received his booster dose of Pfizer Biontech vaccine at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. […]
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The national leadership of the People’s Democratic Party has assured members that it will not impose its position on the 17 aspirants in the run-up for the 2022 governorship elections. This is as the aspirants met with stakeholders at a two-day reconciliation meeting to reach a truce concerning the 2022 governorship elections. The meeting convened […]
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Nigeria’s economy has lost N499.32bn to the shutdown of Twitter since it came into effect on June 4, 2021. On June 4, the Federal Government announced the suspension of Twitter after the social media platform deleted a tweet by President Muhammadu Buhari. Telecommunication companies had on June 5 blocked access to Twitter after receiving a […]
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The House of Representatives, on Tuesday, passed the 2022 Appropriation Bill, raising the total estimates of the Federal Government’s budget from the proposed N16,391,023,917,692 to N17,126,873,917,692, an increase by N735,850,000,000. The lawmakers raised the oil benchmark from $57 per barrel to $62. They also increased the National Assembly’s budget by N5bn, from the proposed N134bn […]
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