Beyond the Headlines
The Federal Government has urged Nigerians to evolve peaceful ways of venting their grievances, lamenting that it would take Nigeria about 50 years to recover from the havoc wreaked on century-old national developmental efforts following the hijack of the recent #EndSARS protest. Government also sought the support of Nigerians and the people of Osun State […]
Security was reinforced around the Federal High Court sitting in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State on Friday to avert a repeat of the Thursday afternoon invasion of the court by armed hoodlums. The hoodlums numbering twenty overpowered the security men on duty and forced their way into Court II which was handling a pre-election suit involving the […]
Former Ivory Coast president, Laurent Gbagbo, who was forced from power after losing elections 10 years ago, has obtained a new passport and plans to return home this month, his lawyer said on Friday. Gbagbo, who is in Brussels pending the outcome of proceedings against him at the International Criminal Court (ICC), “received two passports […]
The Nigeria police force (NPF) has applied to withdraw the suit against the judicial panels set up to probe allegations of brutality and human rights abuses against the force. In a suit marked FHC/ ABJ/CS/1492/2020 and filed by O.M Atoyebi, police counsel, the force had argued that the establishment of panels of inquiry by state […]
A federal high court in Abuja has ordered the remand of Abdulrasheed Maina, former chairman of the Pension Reform Task Team (PRTT), at Kuje correctional centre until the end of his trial. “The defendant is already on bench warrant, his bail having been revoked,” Okon Abang, the judge said. “So, he shall be remanded in […]
A prosecution witness Temitope Isinkaye has narrated how N1.2 billion, sent by the National Security Adviser, Colonel Sambo Dasuki was funnelled into five accounts, including former governor Ayo Fayose’s account. Isinkaye, was giving evidence Thursday in the trial of Abiodun Agbele, an aide to Fayose. The witness is tagged Prosecution Witness No.6. Agbele is being […]
Amidst renewed clamour by some Nigerians on the Federal Government to re-engage foreign mercenaries in the fight against Boko Haram terrorists, the foreign military contractors earlier engaged by Nigeria have vowed never to return to the country. Following the recent massacre of 43 rice farmers in Zabarmari, the Governor of Borno State, Prof. Babagana Zulum […]
About 15 protesters who suffered gunshot wounds during the #EndSARS protests in Lagos today stormed the Lagos State Court of Arbitration and Mediation in Lekki, venue of the Lagos State Judicial Panel of Enquiry and Restitution for Victims of SARS related abuses and other matters. 14 of them were said to have been shot at […]
Two persons including a suspected armed robber have been killed in Ibadan. Vanguard gathered that a two-man armed robbery gang allegedly shot a motorcyclist dead after snatching his bike while irate youths also killed one of the robbers. The fleeing suspected robber met his waterloo at the popular “Area 110” roundabout, Odo Ona, Ibadan. According […]
The second prosecution witness, Abdulrahman Arabo, in the ongoing trial of Paul Usoro, SAN, a former President of the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, for alleged N1.4bn fraud, on has told Justice Rilwan Aikawa of the Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos how the defendant received a sum of N1.1bn from the Akwa-Ibom State government. […]
