•IGP Egbetokun The Commissioner of Police Edo State, CP Funsho Adegboye, has warned police officers to desist from searching citizens’ phone. The CP in a press release has said it is now an offense punishable for any officer that engages in the search of law abiding citizen of Edo State, reports Nigerian Tribune. “This press […]
•Ishaq Oloyede Secretary-General of the Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs, NSCIA, Professor Ishaq Oloyede, has lampooned state governors for seeking the federal government’s intervention to tackle security challenges. The Arabic professor, who is also the Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, stated that President ...
A rights group today called on President Bola Tinubu to stop the payment of pensions to former governors and their deputies. The organisation – Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) in 2017 filed a suit seeking the repeal of pensions for former governors and their deputies across all states of the federation, reports Channel...
•Francis Nwifuru Ebonyi State governor, Chief Francis Nwifuru, yesterday, warned revenue officers in the state against collecting taxes from petty traders and indigent ones in the state. He said it was inhuman to tax vegetable sellers and other petty traders in the state, reports Daily Sun. The governor stated this during the swearing-in of me...
•Philip Shaibu Justice James Omotoso of the Federal High Court in Abuja has refused to grant an ex-parte motion filed by the deputy governor of Edo State, Philip Shaibu, seeking an interim order to stop the impeachment process by the state’s House of Assembly. In the suit, Shaibu sought an order of the court restricting […]
The House of Representatives has asked the Federal Ministry of Industry, Trade and Investment, to immediately halt the signing and implementation of a trade partnership with the United Kingdom (UK), which allows UK lawyers to practice within Nigeria. A motion by 49 lawmakers today, pointed to recent reports and public outcry, over an alleged e...
•House of Representatives The North-West, South-West and South-South geo-political zones of the country may not field a presidential candidate in the 2027 general election if ongoing moves to alter relevant provisions of the 1999 Constitution (as amended) scales through. It was exclusively gathered that a bill “For an Act to alter the provisio...
•Professor Wole Soyinka Nobel laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka has urged the government at all levels to desist from taking citizens for a fool so as to bridge the gap between leaders and the led. Soyinka, who was a guest speaker at the Punch’s 50th anniversary lecture themed ‘Recovering the Narrative,’ insisted that the government ought [&hel...
•Nigeria Law School The House of Representatives today, Wednesday, February 21, asked the Council of Legal Education to put in abeyance, the recent 60 percent increase in the school fees of the Nigeria Law School. Adopting a motion by the Minority Leader of the House, Kingsley Chinda and read on his behalf by Ginger Owusibe, […]
•Nigerian Senate and Tinubu The Senate today, made a resounding plea to the Tinubu-led federal government, urging it to refrain from eliminating the electricity subsidy, particularly in light of the prevailing hardships experienced across the nation. The Senate’s stance emerged following a thorough deliberation and subsequent endorsement of a ...
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