President Muhammadu Buhari will present the 2021 budget at a joint sitting of the National Assembly on Thursday, October 8, 2020. This was contained in a letter written to the National Assembly and read by the Senate President Ahmed Lawan on Tuesday at the resumption of plenary. EXECUTIVE COMMUNICATION Senate President Ahmad Lawan read a […]
AN Ondo high court in Akure has sentenced the Founder of Sotitobire Praising Chapel, Prophet Babatunde Alfa and five others to life imprisonment over the disappearance of a one-year-old boy, Gold kolawole in the church last year. Justice Olusegun Odusola in his judgement convicted the defendants having found them guilty of the two-count charge of […]
Candidates of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Rotimi Akeredolu; Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Eyitayo Jegede; the Zenith Labour Party (ZLP) Agboola Ajayi, and others, have signed a peace pact ahead of the Ondo State Governorship election slated for October 10, 2020. They signed the pact on Tuesday, pledging to shun violence during the election and […]
Stock markets diverged Tuesday as investors dwelled on US election uncertainty after President Donald Trump returned to the White House following hospital treatment for COVID-19. Traders reacted to Trump’s discharge from hospital as political concerns persisted before the presidential vote on November 3. The dollar rose against the euro but declined against the yen, while […]
A former Governor of Imo State, Senator Rochas Okorocha, has challenged the justice Benjamin Iheaka led panel probing contracts awarded during his tenure to the tune of N106 billion. The said panel, which indicted the ex-Governor, has asked him to refund the said amount, which it claimed was fraudulently expended on fictitious contracts. But Okorocha, […]
A 20-year-old bartender, Joshua Toryile, was on Tuesday tried in an Ikeja Domestic Violence and Sexual Offences Court, for allegedly raping a 22-year-old unconscious woman. The police charged Toryile with two counts of conspiracy and rape. The lead state prosecutor, Mr Peter Owolabani, alleged that Toryile committed the offence alongside an accomplice, who is at […]
The Nigerian Army on Tuesday said its troops of Operation Sahel Sanity killed four bandits in Unguwar Doka village of Faskari Local Government Area of Katsina State, as part of its clearance operations to ward off bandits in the North-west region. The troops also rescued four kidnapped victims at Giruwa village of Dandume Local Government […]
FG withholds our salaries while negotiations are ongoing, says union Every lecturer has been paid , all ASUU members now on IPPIS – Federal Govt There were strong indications on Monday that students of public universities in the country would stay at home further as the Academic Staff Union of Universities dismissed the Federal Government […]
The former Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Delta State, Mr. Dafe Jude Akpedeye SAN, is dead This is contained in a statement signed by the NBA Effurun Branch Chairman, Jonathan Ekperusi, Esq., made available to TheNigeriaLawyer (TNL). “Dear Colleagues, it is with very heavy hearts we announce the death of Dafe Jude Akpedeye, OFR, SAN, […]
A 47- year -old suspected fake lawyer , Tajudeen Idris , has been arrested by men of the Ogun State Police Command for posing as a legal practitioner. The suspect was arrested on Friday at Magistrates ’ Court 6 in the Ifo Local Government Area of the state. Idris was said to have appeared before […]
