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Hearing on the contempt of court charge filed by human rights lawyer, Chief Femi Falana (SAN) against Inspector-General of Police, Mr Mohammed Abubakar could not go on as planned today owing to the absence of Chief Judge of the Federal High Court, Abuja, Justice Ibrahim Auta. Falana had filed the contempt of court charge (Form […]

 Family of late Lagos-based human rights lawyer, Chief Gani Fawehinmi has asked to be left out of the list of centenary awardees to be honoured as part of activities celebrating the country’s 100 years of amalgamation. Gani Fawehinmi was listed as one of the great Nigerians of the 100 years to be honoured, in his […]

The Management of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, (NNPC) on Thursday raised the red flag over what it termed an orchestrated campaign of calumny designed to tarnish the reputation of the Corporation by some unscrupulous elements. In a Press Release signed by Dr. Omar Farouk Ibrahim, Acting Group General Manager, Group Public Affairs Division of […]

President Goodluck Jonathan has urged heads of other countries to join forces with Nigeria in stamping out terrorism from the country, the continent, and the rest of the world. Speaking on Thursday on the occasion of the Centenary Conference themed Human Security, Peace and Development: Agenda for the 21st Century, Jonathan emphasised the importance of […]

  Even a child in the primary school should not be told about who the supervising Minister for Education, Nyesom Wike is. The Nigerian populace knows him better as the arrow head of the crises that have been rocking Rivers State, than as the Minister for Education he was supposed to be. Supposedly, he is […]

“It is unacceptable that polio continues to infect our children and cause such suffering in Nigeria.” Sir Emeka Offor     There is no denying the fact that the polio scourge has become a challenge to many countries in sub-Saharan Africa. Its effect continues to hunt us because of several reasons that have to do […]

Speaker Aminu Tambuwal of the Federal House of Representatives on Wednesday condemned the continuous attacks on states in the north-eastern part of the country. According to Tambuwal, the situation is getting out of hand and Nigerians are getting tired of excuses for the inability of the government to quell these attacks. Describing the attack on students of […]

Secretary-General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-Moon on Wednesday condemned Tuesday’s massacre of students of the Federal Government College, Buni Yadi in Yobe by gunmen believed to be members of the Boko Haram islamist sect. Speaking via a statement issued in New York, Ki-Moon condoled with families of the victims and expressed hope that the […]

The amalgamation of the southern and northern protectorates of Nigeria by Lord Frederick Lugard in 1914 was not a mistake, rather a divine act of God, President Goodluck Jonathan has said. Speaking in a centenary address to the nation on Wednesday, Jonathan insisted that the country’s diverse people were ordained to live together, notwithstanding the […]

Barely two weeks after the Federal House of Representatives called on Chief of Army Staff, Lt Gen. Kenneth Minimah to relocate to Maiduguri, the Borno State capital due to increasing attacks by the Boko Haram sect, the Senate on Wednesday re-emphasised the call for the army chief to temporarily relocate to the state capital. The Boko Haram […]

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) on Tuesday described as baseless and faulty, the Berne Declaration report linking it with several crude oil infractions. Speaking during a presentation before the House of Representatives Joint Committee on Petroleum Upstream, Downstream and Justice on the investigative hearing of alleged connivance of NNPC with Swiss oil dealers to […]

Officials of the Police and the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria (MDCN) have arrested Indian neurosurgeon, Dr. Raju Bhuvaneswara Basina for operating without a practice licence. The Police from Apo Resettlement Division arrested the 53-year-old on Monday in Abuja at Asokoro District Hospital in the Federal Capital Territory, as part of MDCN’s renewed clampdown […]