•Bobrisky A lawyer and human rights activist, Deji Adeyanju, has faulted the six months imprisonment sentence handed down to controversial crossdresser, Idris Okuneye, popularly known as Bobrisky, for abuse of naira. He also urged the courts to be mindful of the “cultural undertone” surrounding the spraying of naira notes in Nigerian social ev...
Concerned Stakeholders in Health sector have called on President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Minister for Health, Prof Ali, Pate and Minister of State for Health Mr, Tunji Alausa to reconsider their stance on the appointment of New Registar for Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria ( MDCN). President Bola Tinubu had recently approved the appointment an...
•Customs officers Amid existing economic challenges and moves to jerk up the N5.1 trillion revenue of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) from the second half of this year to stave borrowings, port users have said the move would increase inflation, as businesses would hugely be affected. They argued that the decision would also affect the [&hell...
•Lawyers and IGP Egbetokun Some lawyers, yesterday, faulted the warning by the Nigeria Police that the use of ‘No Gree For Anybody’, adopted by some Nigerians as the 2024 slogan was capable of instigating crisis in the country. The slogan, which simply means ‘do not tolerate any form of nonsense from anybody’ or ‘do not […]
The Niger Delta Youth Congress (NDYC) yesterday Saturday, December 9, faulted the decisions of the Court of Appeal on the governorship disputes in Plateau, Kano and Zamfara states. The youths, which cited verdicts on governorship elections in Kano, Plateau and Zamfara states, said discriminatory application of legal standards between the North...
•MOFI The House of Representatives Committee on Public Assets, yesterday, in Abuja put the value of federal yovernment assets at $100 billion, insisting that there is an urgent need to safeguard the assets against looting. The lawmakers are also worried over the wrong valuation of the assets as they stressed the need for proper documentation [...
•Unilag The Academic Staff Union of Universities and the Committee of Vice Chancellors of Nigerian Universities have described the plan by the federal government to automatically deduct 40 per cent from the Internally Generated Revenue of universities in the country as an attack on the university system. The FG, in a letter dated October 17, [...