Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, SAN, has described as stupid, a Senate bill that seeks to prohibit the payment and receipt of ransom for the release of any person kidnapped, imprisoned or wrongfully confined. Falana, who spoke on a Live interview programme on Friday, said the National Assembly should rather focus on ensuring they make laws […]
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says spare parts dealers pay taxes but herders don’t Human rights lawyer, Mike Ozekhome, SAN, says the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, SAN, is wrong to compare open grazing ban in Southern Nigeria with the prohibition of spare parts trading in the Northern part of the country. According Ozekhome, spare parts traders […]
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Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi, on Friday described internet fraud, popularly known as ‘yahoo yahoo’, as a negativity that should not be encouraged among youths in the country. Oba Ogunwusi spoke in his palace in Ile-Ife during the official flag-off of 14-day activities for the celebration of the 2021 edition of the Royal Young […]
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Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has ordered a fresh selection process of the ninth substantive Vice-Chancellor of Lagos State University. Commissioner of Information, Gbenga Omotoso, made this known in a statement on Friday. It was gathered that this is in line with the recommendations of the Special Visitation panel set up by the Governor after […]
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The call by the Nigerian Communications Commission for all Nigerians to submit the International Mobile Equipment Identity of their phones to the commission has evoked a lot of reactions. While some claimed it was a violation of human rights, a few persons see it as an infringement of privacy, while others do not know much […]
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Nigerian Communications Commission has said Nigerians will have to submit the International Mobile Equipment Identity of their phones to it from July. The regulatory body said this in the commission’s Revised National Identity Policy for SIM Card Registration. This move to start the implementation of the Device Management System (a Centralised Equipment Identity Register) is […]
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Taraba State Governor, Darius Ishaku, said there was no truth in the reports that another governor elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party will soon defect to the ruling All Progressives Congress. Ishaku spoke while answering questions from State House correspondents at the Presidential Villa, Abuja on Friday. He was reacting to the […]
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Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo has expressed the conviction that the cloud currently hovering over the country will give way for a new Nigeria. According to a statement by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Laolu Akande, the Vice President spoke on Friday while attending the national prayer breakfast in Abuja. The statement was titled […]
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Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu Friday dissolved the governing council, thereby sacking the Pro-Chancellor and Chairman of Council, for alleged flagrant violations of the extant laws and regulations of the university guiding the appointment of a vice-chancellor. He took the decision after consideration of the report of the special visitation panel on the appointment of […]
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Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide, a socio-cultural group, has expressed concerns over increasing cases of attacks on government facilities and structures of the Nigeria Police in some parts of the country. FCT Secretary, Ohanaeze Ndigbo Elders Committee, Prof. Charles Nwekeaku, who made this known at a forum in Abuja on Friday, said destruction of public facilities was […]
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