HUMAN rights lawyer, Mr Femi Falana, SAN, on Monday, said that Lagos State has the constitutional and legal powers to set up a judicial panel of inquiry on any issue just as he tackled the Minister of State for Labour, Mr Festus Keyamo’s, SAN, for faulting the EndSARS Panel set up by the Lagos State […]
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Human rights lawyer, Mr. Femi Falana, SAN; a member of the Lagos #EndSARS panel, Mr. Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa, SAN; and Chairman of Nigerian Bar Association Section on Public Interest and Development Law, NBA-SPIDEL, Dr. Monday Ubani, yesterday, lampooned the Minister of State for Labour, Mr. Festus Keyamo, SAN, for saying that the panels set up across […]
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Chairman of Ondo State Council of Obas and Deji of Akure, Oba Aladetoyinbo Aladelusi has called for restructuring of the nation as a way out of the current quagmire bedeviling the nation. He spoke at the 14th Public Lecture and Presentation of Essays in honour of Chief Joe-Kyari Gadzama SAN to commemorate his 60th Birthday […]
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Justice Oluwatoyin Taiwo of an Ikeja Special Offences Court, has granted permission to two witnesses who do not want to appear in court to testify against kidnap kingpin, Chukwudimeme Onwuamadike, alias Evans to testify online. The judge gave the approval following an application by the state prosecutor, Ms S.O Fashola that the evidence of two […]
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United Bank for Africa (UBA) has held a light-up ceremony at its Foundation Gardens in Marina, Lagos. The event kick-started the leading banking group’s activities for the Yuletide. The garden lights were activated by UBA’s Group Managing Director Kennedy Uzoka with other key management workers and some customers of the bank. Uzoka, who is also […]
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Activities are gradually returning in Awka with markets and few banks operating but but markets and banks in Nnewi and Onitsha are still under lock. Residents of Awka capital city have started their normal living but schools are yet to resume as students were sent home by authorities. In Onitsha, sources said that there were […]
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Trial of Chidinma Ojukwu charged with murder of the Super TV Chief Executive Officer, Usifo Ataga, was on Monday stalled due to the prosecution witness’s lack of composure. Ojukwu, a third year Mass Communication student of the University of Lagos, is standing trial before a Lagos High Court. The undergraduate is facing trial along with […]
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Oriental Energy commences 2020/2021 scholarship programme Two thousand candidates have applied for the 2022/2023 Federal Scholarship Award. Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Education, Mr Sonny Echono, disclosed this at the inauguration of nomination for the Commonwealth Scholarship and Fellowship Plan (CSFP) in Abuja on Monday. He said that more than 30,000 candidates had benefited since […]
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The likelihood of potential further spread of the new Omicron Coronavirus strain at the global level is high, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday. “Given mutations that may confer immune escape potential and possibly transmissibility advantage, the likelihood of potential further spread of Omicron at the global level is high,” the WHO said […]
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The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has taken over the collection of the N700 registration fee for the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME), from 2022. It said in its weekly bulletin issued in Abuja on Monday that it would collect the approved N700 registration fee at the point of registration and remit the same […]
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