Human rights attorney Femi Falana has called on the Oyo and Osun State governments to ensure that the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH) is reopened without any further delay. The senior advocate made the call on Monday at the memorial symposium held in honor of Professor Funmi Adewunmi at …
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The Federal Government has raised the alarm over an orchestrated plot to discredit the Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption, PACAC, and by extension the government’s anti-corruption efforts. The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, made this known in Abuja on Tuesday in a statement signed by Segun Adeyemi, his …
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The leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, on Monday, said Igbo must not vacate the North, or any other part of the country, as a condition for the actualisation of the agitation for Biafra. The IPOB leader spoke in an interview with some journalists in Enugu, …
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By Pius Adesanmi Those interested in the dustbin of Nigeria’s history will one day find APC inside the rubble, among the putrefaction, just beside PDP, and bring out her carcass for examination. Such students of the dustbin of history will likely conclude that APC’s signature contribution to the Nigerian tragedy …
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A man who beat his girlfriend’s five-year-old son to death in a British park because the child lost a shoe was sentenced to life imprisonment on Tuesday. Marvyn Iheanacho, 39, from London, was found guilty at Woolwich Crown Court of the murder of Alex Malcolm. Witnesses heard a male voice …
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Hundreds of young Nigerians marched on the country’s parliament on Tuesday, calling for lawmakers to remove age barriers on political posts, including the presidency. Nigeria’s 1999 constitution stipulates that the president has to be at least 40, while senators and state governors have to be aged 35 or above. But …
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The bill to establish the Nigerian Financial Intelligence Agency has scaled second reading in the Senate. The bill seeks to strip the Economic Financial Crimes Commission of control over the existing Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit, NFIU. The NFIU is currently under the anti-graft agency. The bill to remove that …
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The Lagos State Government on Tuesday served a 48-hour “Abatement Notice from July 25 to July 27 to all owners of illegal structures and shanties, including containerised shops around Obalende. The Head, Public Affairs Unit, Lagos State Task Force, Mr Adebayo Taofiq, said in a statement that the illegal structures …
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Medical doctors in the employment of the Ogun Government on Tuesday vowed to embark on an indefinite industrial action by August if the state government continues to ignore their demands. The doctors, under the aegis of the National Association of Government General Medical Practitioners, made the threat during a news …
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Mike Okeme, the Special Adviser to Delta State Governor Ifeanyi Okowa on Labour Relations and SERVICOM, last Friday escaped being lynched during an election of the state chapter of the Nigerian Union of Teachers (NUT) held at the La-Diva Hotel in Asaba. Okeme, a former state chairman of the Nigeria Labour Congress …
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