•UN peacekeepers UN peacekeepers, ordered to leave Mali by the country’s leaders, have been forced to rush their withdrawal, destroy equipment left behind and risk their lives on the road out. Following a coup in 2020 the new military rulers in June ordered the peacekeepers out, proclaiming the “failure” of their mission and denouncing its [&h...
Operatives of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA) in a continuation of enforcement operations has impounded over 100 private/commercial vehicles operating illegal parking/garages on bridges across the state. Hon. Sola Giwa, the Special Adviser to the Governor of Lagos State on Transportation who led the enforcement operations...
•Wamakko The Election Petition Tribunal in Sokoto state has validated the election of Senator Aliyu Magatakarda Wamakko representing Sokoto North Senatorial District and dismissed the petition filed by the opposition PDP and its candidate, Muhammad Manir Dan Iya for lacking in merit. The Tribunal also awarded N250,000 cost to the respondent, r...
High-flying Tottenham Hotspur will face Crystal Palace in one of the London derbies this weekend. Ange Postecoglu’s side currently tops the Premier League table with 23 points, two more than second-place Manchester City, reports AFP. Alongside Arsenal, both teams remain the only unbeaten sides in the league this season. Crystal Palace, on the ...
•CJN Olukayode Ariwoola The Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Olukayode Ariwoola, today said the Supreme Court now has 10 justices on its bench. According to him, with 10 justices on the bench, the Supreme Court has the lowest number of justices in history. The CJN spoke at the valedictory court session for Justice Musa Dattijo […]
•NUC Executive Secretary, Prof Abubakar Rasheed No fewer than 24 polytechnics and colleges of education have been converted to universities by the federal and state governments. However, the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics and education reform activists tagged the move as a plan to “bury” the essence of technical education in the country,...
Two weeks after the Kano State Police Command declared him wanted, the ring leader of the notorious thugs in Kano, Abba Burakita, has submitted himself and his dangerous weapons to the command headquarters. The daredevil who turned himself over to the police along 40 of his gangsters, have been behind the deadly political thuggery in […...
University of Abuja (UniAbuja) has approved the promotion of 23 academic staff to professorial rank. While 13 of the staff were promoted to the rank of professor, 10 others were elevated to the rank of associate professor. Acting Director, Information & University Relations, Dr. Habib Yakoob, noted in a statement, yesterday, the decision w...
•Paul Ananaba A Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) Prof. Paul Ananaba has advocated for all election petitions to be concluded within 60 days and before swearing-in. The Supreme Court had yesterday affirmed President Bola Tinubu’s election, 171 days after the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the Labour Party (LP) lodged their appeal...
•Tinubu and Jonathan Former President Goodluck Jonathan has visited President Bola Tinubu at the Presidential Villa in Abuja, the nation’s capital. The visit comes 24 hours after the Supreme Court upheld Tinubu’s election in the keenly contested February 25, 2023 presidential poll, reports Channels TV. Though the reason for Jonathan’s visit co...
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