President Andrzej Duda of Poland yesterday made history as the first Polish President to visit Nigeria in the about 60 years old bilateral relations between Nigeria and the European country.
The visit which was aimed at deepening cooperation between the two country seemed…
Femi Falana, human rights lawyer, has asked the court to compel the federal government to provide closed-circuit television (CCTV) cameras at the country’s correctional centres.
In a suit filed at the federal high court sitting in Lagos, Falana also asked the court…
The Competition and Consumer Protection Tribunal sitting in Abuja, on Tuesday, dismissed a suit filed against MultiChoice Nigeria Limited, the operator of satellite televisions – the DSTV and GOTV.
The suit was challenging the recent price hike by the company.
However, the three-member panel…
The Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, on Tuesday said the government could only afford 23.5 percent salary increase for lecturers, while a 35% increment will be enjoyed by professors.
The minister also noted that the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) warned against…
The President of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Yakubu Maikyau, has inaugurated a 15-member committee to investigate the immediate and remote causes of the sad incident of Tuesday, August 23rd when lawyers broke into the pavilion…
The Federal government has secured an arrest database where records of arrests by all security agencies are to be henceforth stored to facilitate quick filing of charges and prosecution of offenders on federal offences.
Section 29 of the Administration of Criminal Justice Act…
A Chief Magistrate Court sitting in Abuja has ordered the police to investigate two lawyers; George Odusanya and Fidelis Mnyim, for alleged supplying of false information against former Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF), Michael Aondoakaa, SAN.
Chief Magistrate Elizabeth Wonni made the order,…
The Governor of Lagos State, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has accepted the resignation of the Commissioner for Physical Planning and Urban Development, Dr. Idris Salako.
A statement made available by the Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Gbenga Omotoso, announced this.
“This is a prelude to…
Human rights lawyer, Mr. Femi Falana has cautioned the Lagos State government not to usurp the powers conferred on local governments to fix and collect parking fees in the state, stressing that it remains the constitutional responsibility of the local governments to…
Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, at the weekend, told members of his party that they needed not to worry about the posturing of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), because they were not equals in the…