•PHOTO: Anti-government protestor climbs atop a statue of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Bangladesh’s founding father and parent of the country’s ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, in Dhaka yesterday Bangladesh’s president dissolved parliament today, a key demand of student protesters who led demonstrations that ousted longtime ruler Sheikh Hasina, ...
•President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump Joe Biden was “not fit to run” and “is certainly not fit to serve” as president, his Republican rival Donald Trump said yesterday after the US leader said he was dropping out of the White House race. “Crooked Joe Biden was not fit to run for president, […]
•Afam Osigwe (SAN) A Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Afam Osigwe, has emerged as the president-elect of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) following the 2024 NBA election held online. Osigwe secured the highest number of votes, with 20,395, surpassing his closest rival, Tobenna Erojikwe, who got 10,970 votes, and Chukwuka Ikwuazom (SAN), who recei...
•Nigerian lawyers The 2024 election of new national leaders of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) is ongoing. NBA National Publicity Secretary, Akorede Habeeb Lawal, in a statement made available to The Frontier today says the voting process began at midnight today, Saturday, July 20, 2024, and will end precisely at 11:59 pm also today. Accord...
•Obasanjo and Kagame Ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo has hailed the re-election of Rwanda’s President, Paul Kagame, describing it as an affirmation of trust and confidence reposed in him. Obasanjo disclosed this in a congratulatory message he signed and was released by his media aide, Kehinde Akinyemi, to journalists in Abeokuta, the Ogun State...
•Nigerian lawyers The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) has fixed Saturday, July 20, 2024 for the elections of their president and other national officers. Ahead of Saturday’s elections, the Electoral Committee has promised Nigerian lawyers free, fair, credible and inclusive elections. Chairman of the Electoral Committee of the NBA, ECNBA, Oluseu...
•Tinubu jets out This piece was first published in Vanguard on April 28, 2015, by Eric Teniola who is a former Director in The Presidency and lives in Lagos UNTIL 1999, the Presidential Air Fleet (PAF) was under the control and supervision of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF). Before then, senior […]
•President Ruto addresses the press today in Nairobi Kenyan President William Ruto said today that a bill containing tax hikes would “be withdrawn”, dramatically reversing course after more than 20 people died and parliament was ransacked in protests. “I concede and therefore I will not sign the 2024 finance bill and it shall subsequently be [...
•Protesters react as Kenyan Police officers fire tear gas canisters Kenya’s President William Ruto said he was ready for “a conversation” with thousands of young protesters who held nationwide demonstrations this week to oppose proposed tax increases, a presidency official said today. Led largely by Gen-Z Kenyans who have livestreamed the demo...
•Comrade Olusoji Oluwole The Association of Senior Staff of Banks, Insurance and Financial Institution (ASSBIFI), has assured workers in the industry that their interest will be protected in the ongoing recapitalisation benchmark recently prescribed by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), adding that the union have taken steps to ensure that an...

