The Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) has issued a notification to airlines stating that they will pay a penalty of $3,500 per passenger if they flout the newly revised COVID-19 provisional quarantine protocols. Besides, the regulator said extreme violation by any carrier would lead to an outright ban. An All Operators Letter (AOL) issued on […]
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Seeks custody of 3 children The Customary Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja yesterday adjourned till today to hear an application by a beauty queen Precious Chikwendu seeking access to the four children she bore for a former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode. She filed the application through her counsel, Mr Abiodun E. […]
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Police confirmed yesterday that five pupils and three housemasters of Dowen College, Lekki, Lagos have been arrested over the death of Sylvester Oromoni Jnr. Spokesman, Adekunle Ajisebutu, confirmed the development in a statement, adding that investigation was ongoing. “I can confirm to you that five of the students involved are being held in custody and […]
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The Supreme Court yesterday ordered the sacked National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Prince Uche Secondus, to serve all processes in his case on the respondents through the party’s national secretariat. A panel of the court, led by Justice Musa Dattijo Mohammed, ordered Secondus to serve all the defendants through substituted means by […]
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The National Industrial Court (NIC) in Abuja has ordered the Nigerian Army Council to immediately reinstate Brig.-Gen. Abubakar Hanafi Saad, who was compulsorily retired in 2016. The military officer was among the 38 Army officers that were compulsorily retired on June 9, 2016, without any cogent reason. The court ordered that Saad be paid all […]
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The Supreme Court has rescheduled its judgment till a later date in the dispute between the 36 states and the Federal Government on Judiciary funding, Executive Order 10. The judgment was planned for yesterday, according to hearing notices dispatched to parties by the court’s Registry. But when they got to court in the morning, Justice […]
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A former Kano State Governor Ibrahim Shekarau has said a meeting of members of his faction of the All Progressives Congress (APC) last Sunday in Kano with the party’s National Leader, Asiwaju Bola Tunibu, was on the party’s lingering crisis in the state. Shekarau told BBC Hausa that Tinubu invited him for the meeting in […]
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A High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) in Jabi has fixed December 17 for the hearing of a suit seeking to set aside all actions and decisions taken by the Yobe State Governor Mai Mala Buni-led Caretaker/Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee (CECPC) of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). The suit marked is also […]
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Nigeria’s Minister of Foreign affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama, has said the travel ban on Nigeria and other African countries will not work. He spoke at the Dakar International Forum on Peace and Security in Africa while reacting to what some African leaders said about the recent travel ban on some African countries by the United Kingdom. […]
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Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie smiles as she attends a panel discussion with the German Chancellor at the Schauspielhaus theatre in Duesseldorf, western Germany, on September 8, 2021. (Photo by Rolf Vennenbernd / Pool / AFP) Ahead of the new year, the BBC has named Multiple Award-winning author and Feminist, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie among its […]
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