Senator Orji Kalu, who was freed on Friday by the Supreme Court from a 12 year imprisonment, has said that he has learnt invaluable lessons about Nigeria, her peoples and justice system. The Chief Whip of the Senate and former Abia State Governor, was freed after spending five months of his sentence at the Kuje […]
Continue ReadingThe Supreme Court has quashed the judgement that convicted and sentenced the former governor of Abia State, Orji Uzor-Kalu to 12 years imprisonment. In a unanimous judgement on Friday by a seven-man panel, led by Justice Amina Augie, the Supreme Court held that the Federal High Court in Lagos, which tried and convicted Kalu, his […]
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Lagos State government on Thursday discharged 48 coronavirus patients from its isolation centres after treatment, to raise the number of those successfully managed to 406. Those discharged include 32 male and 16 female – all of them Nigerians. They were treated at the Yaba, Lekki, Onikan and Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH) isolation facilities to […]
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A truck full of herdsmen was stopped before arriving in Lagos at the Ojodu-Berger in Lagos, on May 4, 2020, from Zamfara and Kano State, the epicentre of coronavirus in northern Nigeria. Kano, with around 12 million people, is the second most populous state in Nigeria. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control on May 1, […]
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The judge who annulled the June 12, 1993 presidential election, Nigeria’s freest and fairest poll ever conducted in the history of the country, Dahiru Saleh, has died. This was confirmed to The Cable by a family source, who said he was buried at the palace of the emir of Azare around 4:30pm on Thursday. Until […]
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By Abdu Rafiu A crowded bank after the COVID-19 lockdown in Lagos There is nothing like freedom. Last Monday proved to everyone how irrepressible the longing for freedom is. The longing was breathless, the desire to walk the street was pressing—to breathe in fresh air from outside, away from the stuffy room into which you […]
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The Federal Government says it has initiated the process of decontaminating and disinfecting schools across the country before reopening them for academic activities. Minister of the Environment, Muhammad Mahmood, who disclosed this said his ministry would liaise with the Federal Ministry of Education to get required data to conduct the exercise. He spoke while responding […]
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The Federal Government has decried the continued violation of the new guidelines set up as part of measures to check the spread of Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic in the country. Mr Adeniyi Adebayo, Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, on Wednesday in Abuja, frowned at the deliberate violation of the guidelines. The minister warned against the […]
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Wants decentralised police force, community policing Senate President, Ahmed Lawan The Senate has asked the Federal Government to suspend the planned deployment of the fifth-generation (5G) network in Nigeria pending the resolution of all issues thrown up by the new technology. Adopting a motion sponsored by Senator Uche Ekwenife (PDP, Anambra Central) at plenary yesterday […]
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Nigeria’s Envoy to the Republic of Togo, Ambassador Olusola Iji, has expressed his determination to beat the incumbent Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, SAN, at the coming party primaries to clinch the ticket of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, as the party’s candidate in the forthcoming governorship election in the state. He was sure that the […]
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