A Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Femi Falana, has asked the Department of State Services (DSS) to release detained suspended Chairman of the Ijebu East Local Government in Ogun State, Wale Adedayo. The council boss had accused Governor Dapo Abiodun of diverting the statutory allocations of the 20 local governments in the state. He […]
The Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, has called for an urgent reform of the justice system in the country, saying it was worried that public confidence in the judiciary remained at very low levels. The legal body, in a communique it issued to mark the end of its 63rd Annual General Conference, AGC, further […]
Four victims of the Kaduna Mosque attack, which claimed about seven lives on Friday night, left behind over 61 orphans and widows, Daily Trust reports. Bandits on motorcycles had attacked worshipers while praying, killing and injuring their victims before fleeing the community. A farmer and businessman, Ya’u Ibrahim, who had 20 children and two […]
The Nigeria Police Force (NPF) has confirmed the arrest of one Chike Ibezim, an entrepreneur, following a petition by Babatunde Fashola, former minister of works. On August 10, Chike was reportedly arrested by some police officers in Abuja, the country’s capital. Fashola was said to have written a petition against the entrepreneur about a […]
The Lagos State Government on Sunday issued a fresh flood alert, prompting some residents of the state to prepare for flooding in the month of September. This followed the release of an updated 2023 Water Releases Forecast for Flood Control by the Ogun-Osun River Basin Authority. In a statement by the Permanent Secretary, Office […]
The Abia state government at the weekend demolished a two-storey building in Umuahia, the state capital, in a proactive move to save lives and property. A rapid response team, comprising the Ministries of Lands and Housing; Power & Public Utilities; Works; and the Umuahia Capital Development Authority (UCDA), the Nigerian Police Force, the Abia […]
The United Kingdom issued some 132,000 visas to Nigerians in the first half of the year, Jonny Baxter, British Deputy High Commissioner in Lagos, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN). He revealed the number in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos on Thursday. Baxter, however, could not readily […]
A female convict at the Federal Correctional Center in Afao Ekiti, Ekiti State, has regained freedom after putting to at the Correctional Centre. In a landmark judgment delivered by the Court of Appeal sitting in Ado Ekiti on August 31, the court set aside the judgment of the Federal High Court, Ado Ekiti, which […]
The Imo Police Command has said it arrested at least 200 suspects in the past three years, in connection with the various killings and other heinous crimes in the state. The command’s Public Relations Officer2 (PPRO), ASP Henry Okoye, disclosed this in a statement made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in […]
A builder identified as Chizoba Aniefuna and his two sons have lost their lives in a building collapse in Egbu Umuenem, Otolo Nnewi, Nnewi North LGA of Anambra State. The structure, a storey building with pent house was reportedly under construction when it collapsed. The Nation gathered that a relative of the builder was […]
