The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Tuesday asked an Abuja High Court presided over by Justice Olukayode Adeniyi, to disqualify itself in hearing the criminal action which the anti graft agency initiated against top officials of the National Gallery of Arts. The agency said it no longer felt comfortable allowing both its lawyers [...]
Top officials of the Nigerian oil rich state of Bayelsa  who are standing trial for allegedly stealing and laundering  N2.5 billion  belonging to the state,  on Tuesday told a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja that they were eager for a speedy trial so as to clear their names of the allegations slammed upon them [...]
In a dramatic and ground-breaking judgment, the ECOWAS Community Court of Justice in Abuja has ordered the Nigerian government to provide as of right, free and compulsory education to every Nigerian child. This judgment followed the court’s earlier ruling that declared that all Nigerians are entitled to education as a legal and human right. The [...]
Speech delivered by Engr. Rauf Adesoji Aregbesola, during his installation as the new governor of Osun State in Osogbo on Saturday We stand today to celebrate the goodness of God and the unconquerable spirit of the people of Osun State. God and God alone is omnipotent. At His instance, tyranny crumbles; man’s pretence to omnipotence [...]
In the afternoon of Saturday, 20 November 2010, I was hynoptised in a Lagos bus, dispossessed of all my belongings and dumped on New Era Road at Iyana Ipaja, a suburb of Lagos State, South West Nigeria. “I was returning from Agbara in Ogun State where I had attended a remembrance service for Mr. Toluwalase [...]
Former Governor of Ondo State, Evangelist Bamidele Olumilua; Senator Olabiyi Durojaye representing Ogun East Federal Constituency of Ogun State and Chairman of Action Congress Nigeria (ACN), Jide Awe, have called on the former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo to tender unreserved apology to the people of South West for stealing their mandate for People’s Democratic People [...]
The saying that when two elephants fight the ground suffers appears to be untrue in the pay television industry as subscribers are currently reaping a good bargain from the price war between the three players in the industry- Multichoice, HiTV and Startimes. Before now, pay television service was an exclusive reserve of the rich. Satellite [...]
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