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The hate speech Bill being proposed by Nigerian Senate, Wednesday received another vituperation, as a legal icon, Chief Afe Babalola SAN, described it as a slide to dictatorship. While receiving the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Ekiti chapter, led by its Chairman, Com Rotimi Ojomoyela, the legal icon noted that the provisions of the proposed […]
Continue ReadingAlfred Chestnut, Andrew Stewart and Ransom Watkins had been sentenced to life in 1984 for killing a 14-year-old boy a year earlier. They were freed in Baltimore on Monday after a judge cleared their convictions following a review of their case. The case was reopened this year after Mr Chestnut sent a letter to Baltimore’s […]
Continue ReadingThe Centre for Anti-Corruption and Open Leadership, CACOL, has taken a swipe at the order of a Federal High Court in Abuja barring the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, from prosecuting a former Comptroller-General of the Nigeria Customs Service, Abdullahi Dikko. In a release issued by CACOL’s Executive Chairman, Mr. Debo Adeniran and signed […]
Continue ReadingAn Ibadan-based truck driver, Azeez Hakeem, on Tuesday, told an Ile-Tuntun Customary Court in Ibadan that his wife, Mufuli, was fond of sleeping with their landlord. Hakeem, who lives at Popo Yemoja area of Ibadan, stated this while reacting to his wife’s allegation of battery before the president of the court, Henry Agbaje. He said […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arrested the Deputy Controller of Kirikiri maximum correctional centre, Emmanuel Oluwaniyi and Hemeson Edwin, also a DC, for allegedly procuring an exaggerated medical report for a convict and suspected cyber scammer, Olusegun Aroke. Aroke, who is serving a 24-year jail term was allegedly given a referral for […]
Continue ReadingMike Ozekhome SAN, has slammed the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) over its alleged cold feet in investigating a Chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Mr Bola Ahmed Tinubu, following a petition written against him after bullion vans were spotted at his Bourdillion residence on the eve of the 2019 presidential election. While […]
Continue ReadingFormer Nigerian Minister of Aviation, Mr Femi Fani-Kayode, showed his displeasure at the Senate’s plan to amend the proposed death penalty clause in the hate speech bill pending before the chamber. Senator Aliyu Sabi Abdullahi, who sponsored the ‘hate speech bill’ had, on Sunday, said that the Senate may amend the proposed death penalty clause […]
Continue ReadingFormer vice president and candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in the last presidential election, Alhaji Abubakar Atiku arrived Nigeria in the early hours of Monday, according to Thisday. According to his media aide, Mr. Paul Ibe, the former vice president, who had been out of the country for about seven months, arrived Abuja, Nigeria, […]
Continue ReadingVeteran and very popular Nigerian actor, Mr. Saidi Balogun has lost his mother and the actor has taken to his Instagram page to announce the sad news. Mr Balogun shared a photo of himself with his mother and wrote: “Good night Mama mi Jolade Omo Olomu Aperan. Rest in peace.” May her soul rest […]
Continue ReadingTwo Roman Catholic priests were each sentenced to more than 40 years in prison in Argentina for sexually abusing deaf children, a court in the western city of Mendoza ruled Monday. Argentine priest Horacio Corbacho was sentenced to 45 years in jail, while a 42-year sentence was imposed on Italian Nicola Corradi for the abuse […]
Continue ReadingSegun Awosanya a.k.a Segalink has reacted to report of a special panel being constituted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission and charged with investigating the $44.9 million wire fraud and money laundering case against Air Peace Chief Executive, Allen Onyema. Reacting to the report, Segalink wondered why the anti-graft agency was quick to set-up a […]
Continue ReadingThe Federal High Court, Abuja, on Monday admitted Abdulrasheed Maina, former Chairman, defunct Pension Reform Task Team, to a bail in the sum of N1bn. Justice Okon Abang who gave the ruling also ordered that Maina must produce two sureties who must be serving senators. The two lawmakers, according to the judge, must not be […]
Continue ReadingTwenty-three bodies were recovered on Sunday after a small plane crashed on takeoff into a densely populated area of Goma in the Democratic Republic of Congo, rescue workers said. The aircraft crashed in the Mapendo neighbourhood after “missing” its take-off from the city’s international airport, North Kivu regional governor Nzanzu Kasivita said. He said there […]
Continue ReadingVeteran Nollywood actor and director, Theodore Anyanji, has died. According to reports, Theodore died at a prayer healing church in Festac, Lagos State, yesterday November 23, after a prolonged battle with heart and kidney disease. His friends and colleagues in the Industry have taken to social media to mourn his death. May his soul rest in […]
Continue ReadingChairman and CEO of Air Peace, Allen Onyema is enmeshed in more trouble as the United States District Court of the Northern District of Georgia has issued a warrant of arrest against him. The U.S. Marshals Service were authorized by the warrant signed by Magistrate of the court, Justin Anand, to take Mr Onyema […]
Continue ReadingThe hope that the former National Security Adviser (NSA), Colonel Sambo Dasuki (Rtd), will be released from detention rises as the Appeal Court in Abuja, on Friday, November 22, vacated stringent bail conditions earlier granted to him. The court unanimously consented to Dasuki’s request for a variation in the terms attached to the bail earlier […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’s Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, has warned Nigerians with dual citizenship against applying for the e-passport. Addressing Nigerians at the Nigerian High Commission in Tokyo on Friday during the roll out of the e-passport, the minister told Nigerian-Japanese who have accepted Japanese citizenship that a new visa regime that would grant them multiple entries […]
Continue ReadingThe United States Department of Justice says it has indicted Air Peace CEO, Allen Onyema, in bank fraud and money laundering. While Mr. Onyema has denied the charges, the Justice Department also states that the burden of proof belongs to the American government. See the full details of his indictment: Allen Ifechukwu Athan Onyema, the […]
Continue ReadingCatholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Matthew Hassan Kukah, has asked Nigerians to fight the Social Media Regulation Bill with all their energy, saying the bill is “redundant, stale, superfluous and a fraud.” In a statement made available to newsmen on Thursday, Bishop Kukah explained that a people who suffered poor governance would use different avenues […]
Continue ReadingCourt of Appeal sitting in Kaduna State, Nigeria has upheld the election of Abdullahi Ganduje as duly elected Governor of Kano State. Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its candidate had on October 11 filed a petition at the Appeal Court against the October 2 judgement of the election petition tribunal. The election petition tribunal had […]
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