Chiemeka Arinze, an accomplice of suspected billionaire kidnap kingpin, Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike aka Evans, has died in prison custody. Arinze is standing trial alongside Evans, Joseph Emeka, and Udeme Upong, over the attempted kidnap of the Chairman of the Young Shall Grow Motors, Chief Vincent Obianodo, before Justice Oluwatoyin Taiwo of an Ikeja Special Offences Court. […]
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Chairman of the panel, Justice Doris Okuwobi, retired, submitting the panel’s report to Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu on November 15 A member of the Lagos #EndSARS panel, Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa, SAN, and a former Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) Vice President, Monday Ubani, have opposed Minister of State for Labour, Festus Keyamo, SAN, over the legality […]
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All the judicial panels investigating the October 2020 #EndSARS protests and cases of police brutality across the country are illegal, Minister of State for Labour and Employment Festus Keyamo has declared. He was however, quick to explain that his comment was not that of the Federal Government, but his personal view as a lawyer and […]
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Economic and financial experts have warned the Federal Government that Nigeria risks losing key national assets to China in the event that it defaults in paying back loans obtained from China which is currently put at $3.48bn. They spoke against the backdrop of the possible takeover of Uganda’s only international airport and other key assets […]
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Comptroller-General, Nigeria Customs Service, Hameed Ali •Top pastors, business moguls, banks and oil firms’ CEOs affected •NCAA, FAAN, NAMA get letter to ground affected planes •Aviation ministry, Customs on warpath over flight ban directive The Federal Government has directed the Nigeria Customs Service to ground 91 private jets belonging to some wealthy Nigerians over their […]
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Chibueze Nnaji, a corporal in the Nigeria Police Force (NPF), has obtained a PhD from the Abia State University (ABU). He bagged the degree at the 27th and 28th combined convocation of the university. Speaking during the convocation ceremony in a video published by ABN TV, a news platform based in the South-east, the police […]
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By Adegbenro Adebanjo His studentship was withdrawn by the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife, OAU, after he failed to meet up to the minimum standard . And so after five years sojourn all came to nothing in 2014. Six years after, he has graduated with a First Class from the Federal University of Technology Akure, […]
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By Adegbenro Adebanjo In 2012 she was a final year student of Biology at the Federal University of Technology Akure FUTA. However in the same year she was involved in a debilitating road accident that changed the course of her life and made her wheelchair bound. In 2019, seven years after the accident, she applied […]
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Emeritus Archbishop of Abuja, Cardinal John Onaiyekan, has called on the Federal Government to tackle the menace of abandoned street children in order to end the country’s security problems. He made the call in Abuja yesterday while speaking at the premiere of ‘’The Oratory’’, a movie raising awareness on the plight of street children in […]
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