Pope Francis arrives to celebrate a mass for the Filipino community on December 15, 2019 at St. Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican. (Photo by Tiziana FABI / AFP) Catholic clergy will no longer be able to cite papal secrecy in sexual abuse cases after Pope Francis changed the rules, the Vatican said on Tuesday. Francis’ […]
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Convicted Senator and former Governor of Abia, Orji Kalu, on Tuesday prayed a Federal High Court in Lagos to grant him bail from the Ikoyi Custodial Centre pending determination of an appeal against his conviction. Justice Mohammed Idris had convicted Kalu and sentenced him to a concurrent jail term of 12 years for N7.2 billion […]
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President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday insisted that the country’s democratic system of government was ‘too slow’ for him to prosecute corrupt people. He made the disclosure while giving a remark on his 77th birthday at State House, Abuja. “When I came in uniform, I collected those who were leading (in corruption), took them to Kirikiri […]
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The Senate on Tuesday directed its Committees on Foreign Affairs and Trade and Investment to liaise with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to determine the status of over 600 Nigerian shops and businesses in Ghana allegedly shut down by the authorities in that country. The Ghana Union of Traders Association (GUTA) had on December 2 […]
Continue Readingsays proposal best solution to Nigeria’s democratic challenges Former Vice President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has expressed displeasure with the speed with which the six-year single term proposal for president and governors was rejected by the House of Representatives. He expressed the displeasure in a statement issued by his Media Adviser, Mr. Paul Ibe, on Tuesday […]
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President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday signed the 2020 spending plan into law, returning the country to the January-December budget cycle. The budget, tagged “Budget of Sustaining Growth and Job Creation”, is Nigeria’s biggest budget ever, totalling N10.59 trillion. It is up from the 8.83 trillion-naira budget for 2019 and tops the previous record spending plan, […]
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A Federal high Court sitting in Abuja has ordered the minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami and Director General of the DSS, Yusuf Bichi, to appear before the court over continued detention of Omoyele Sowore. Counsel to Mr Sowore made a fresh application for an order of the court to release the defendant who was re-arrested […]
Continue ReadingThe House of Representatives has rejected a bill seeking to amend the 1999 constitution to provide for a six-year single term for the President and governors. The bill sponsored by John Dyegh (APC, Benue) is also seeking a six-year multiple tenure for federal and state legislators. When the bill came up for debate on the […]
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The Senate on Tuesday summoned the Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbosola, to appear before it with the Comptroller General of the Nigerian Immigration Service, Muhammed Babandede. Aregbesola and Babandede are to brief the Senate on Committee on Judiciary, Human Rights and Legal Matters on latest visa on arrival policy for Africans visiting Nigeria by […]
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President Muhammadu Buhari has advised politicians interested in contesting the 2023 elections to work hard as “would not allow electoral malpractices”. Also, he warned sternly that neither would he allow anyone seeking elective position to use his name to canvass for votes in the forthcoming elections. He issued the warning when secretary to the Federal […]
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