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The Court of Appeal, Lagos Division, has overturned a 2013 judgment of the Federal High Court, which allowed Guaranty Trust Bank Plc to foreclose on a N30bn 44-room mansion in Ikoyi, Lagos, belonging to Alhaji Agboola Abiola, son of the late business mogul and politician, Chief M.K.O. Abiola.   A Certified True Copy of the […]

If anyone needed a compelling argument against electing old and lethargic leaders whose breasts the milk of human kindness has long dried, the response by the present administration to the recent killings in the Yelwata community of Benue should suffice. For a round of violence that consumed an estimated 200 people, the press release issued […]

The Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission has sealed off France, Belgium and Italy visa centres located at the Mukhtar El-Yakub House, Central Business District, Abuja.   The office was sealed with the combined efforts of operatives from the FCCPC, Nigerian Police Force and the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps as staff of the […]

A widening schism is emerging between President Bola Tinubu and his National Security Adviser, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, over the fate of plans to host a permanent UN counter terrorism office in Abuja. In a stunning reversal, President Tinubu has reportedly backpedaled on an earlier commitment to host a permanent United Nations Counter-Terrorism Centre (UNCCT) in […]

Justice Chizoba Orji of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court on Thursday granted Kogi Central Senator, Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, a ₦50m bail after she pleaded not guilty to alleged defamation.    The female lawmaker was granted bail with one surety, who must have a landed property in Abuja and must be a responsible resident of […]

The Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Olohundare Jimoh, has said that the use of a stun gun as a form of threat or to create fear in the mind of another constitutes an offence under the law.   Jimoh disclosed this on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily on Thursday while giving an update on the case […]

President Bola Tinubu has directed the Inspector General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun, and the Chief of Defence Staff, Christopher Musa, to immediately arrest killer herders who perpetrated the heinous killing of over 100 people in Yelewata community in Benue State.   President Tinubu gave the directive while addressing stakeholders at the Government House, Markudi.   […]

How else could anyone have described the “Subsidy is Gone” declaration of President Bola Tinubu at his inauguration in May 2023 than to say it was “a shock that came without a strategy”? The President in his impulsive and arrogant posture wanted to be seen as that fearless and courageous leader, but in reality, vainglorious […]

    Candidly, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has done very well with June 12 by taking the narrative from where President Muhammadu Buahri left off, and choosing to give that date, the history and the symbolism of it, form, style and substance. President Buhari, despite the somnambulism of his administration, it would be recalled, suddenly […]

President Bola Tinubu has directed security chiefs to implement his earlier directive to bring lasting peace and security to Benue State.   President Tinubu renewed his order in the wake of the latest round of reprisal attacks that led to the death of many people.   On the president’s directive, intelligence chiefs, the police and […]

There ought to be a law prohibiting certain categories of people from obtaining higher degrees in obscure higher institutions in their localities.  Even without one, there is an obvious risk for both the student and the institution.   I have covered Mrs Jonathan for years and yet did not know, until she mentioned it in […]