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Nigeria’s Council of Legal Education (CLE), in a circular issued on Friday, has released the list of 114 universities approved to run law programmes in Nigeria. The Council of Legal Education is the statutory body responsible for the professional training and regulation of aspiring lawyers in Nigeria. The council said only the listed universities are […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’s Court of Appeal sitting in Akure, Ondo State, has affirmed Dr. Wole Oluyede, as the duly nominated governorship candidate of the PDP for the 2026 Ekiti State governorship election. The three-member appellate panel, in a unanimous judgment, set aside the earlier ruling of the Federal High Court in Ado-Ekiti, which had nullified the party’s […]
Continue ReadingAt the 2016 edition of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) annual ‘Telecom World’ held in Bangkok, Thailand, then Kaduna State Governor, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai shared the story of the difficulty encountered in selling Nigeria’s liberalised telecommunications industry to international investors. According to El-Rufai, who was the Bureau of Public Enterprise (BPE) Director-General between 1999 and 2003, Nigeria was so […]
Continue ReadingThe surge in energy prices triggered by the conflict in the Middle East has significantly strengthened the dollar, paradoxically undermining US President Donald Trump’s economic objectives. AFP looks at the reasons behind the greenback’s rise against rivals. – King of oil – At the start of the conflict almost two weeks ago, investors began massively […]
Continue ReadingNigerian star comedian and skit maker, Samuel Perry, popularly known as Broda Shaggi, has reportedly been hospitalised after he was allegedly shot while filming a comedy skit in the Sango-Ota area of Ogun State. The entertainer was said to have been recording content with his crew on Sunday afternoon under the Sango-Ota bridge when the […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’s Inspector-General of Police (IGP) Olatunji Rilwan Disu, has approved the appointment of DCP Anthony Okon Placid, as the new Force Public Relations Officer (FPRO), outgoing Force spokesman Hundeyin said in a statement on Sunday announcing Placid’s appointment. Immediate past IGP Kayode Egbetokun appointed Hundeyin as the Force Public Relations Officer (FPRO) in September 2025. […]
Continue ReadingIran’s new supreme leader ordered the vital Strait of Hormuz oil shipping lane to remain closed on Thursday, while US President Donald Trump said stopping the Islamic Republic’s “evil empire” was more important than crude prices. Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, who was reportedly injured in an air strike, has yet to appear publicly since his nomination […]
Continue ReadingA three-man panel of Nigeria’s Court of Appeal sitting in Ibadan, Oyo State, led by Justice Biobele Georgewill, on Wednesday, granted all parties involved in the elective convention of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) leave to settle out of court. The matter has, therefore, been adjourned sine die on the resolution of the counsel to […]
Continue ReadingThe ancient Greek philosopher Socrates warned that lies are not harmless distortions of reality; they are assaults on truth itself. Falsehood, he argued, is destructive because it murders truth and corrupts the moral order. Permit me to use his exact words, to wit: “The punishment for a liar is not being believed, even when telling […]
Continue ReadingA High Court of Ekiti State sitting in Ado Ekiti has sentenced Olatide Temitope Emmanuel to death by hanging over a two-count charge bordering on murder and impersonation. The convict, 48, was arraigned before Justice Jubril Aladejana in December 2025 on the two-count charge, and the offences are contrary to Section 316 and punishable under […]
Continue ReadingIndia and other yet-to-be disclosed countries have declined to accept some of President Bola Tinubu’s recently posted ambassadors-designate due to diplomatic policies that discourage receiving envoys from administrations with less than two years remaining in office, according to Punch. Top officials in the Presidency and the foreign service disclosed on Tuesday that India, where career […]
Continue ReadingReverend Solomon Eliyah of the Throne of Eliyah’s Ministry (TEM) has prophesied that Peter Obi, a chieftain of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), will secure 70 per cent of the total votes in the 2027 presidential election. In a video posted on his verified Facebook page on Wednesday, March 11, Rev. Eliyah also predicted that the election […]
Continue ReadingThere is an urgent assignment for President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. It is the need to intervene and seek to resolve the festering conflict between Cross Rivers State and its neighbouring Akwa Ibom State, both once together as a com-munity, until state creation in 1987, and now the politics of oil, the fight over 76 oil […]
Continue ReadingNigerian ambassador to Mexico, Reno Omokri, has shared a post on the social media to show that he has successfully climbed to the top of Mount Kilimanjaro, the highest mountain in Africa, in just three and a half days—half the time it typically takes most climbers to reach the top. Africa’s tallest mountain, Mount Kilimanjaro, […]
Continue ReadingOn August 2, 1100, England’s King William II went hunting in the New Forest in southern England. During the chase, an arrow shot at a stag by his companion, the Norman nobleman Walter Tirel struck an oak tree, ricocheted, and pierced the king’s chest. The king died right there. The spot where he fell is […]
Continue ReadingPeople living in many communities in Ekiti State are raising alarm over worsening insecurity after a middle-aged woman was reportedly abducted and raped to death by suspected kidnappers in the Ajoni LCDA area. The kidnappers demanded ₦1.5M, Canadian Loud, Cocaine, Mkpuru Mmiri, and Cartons of beer to release her corpse. The villagers rallied, raised cash […]
Continue ReadingNine months to the January 2027 D Day general elections, this electoral cycle is distinguished by the poverty of the opposition platform. It was predictable. The moment they could not commit to the prescription of the North /South power rotation principle, the opposition lost its most potent instrument of political mobilisation. Says the scripture “There […]
Continue ReadingAs petrol prices jumped to about N1,300 per litre in various parts of Nigeria on Monday, businesses across the country are beginning to prepare for a sharp rise in their operational costs. Confirmed by economists and the Organised Private Sector, they warned that the hike could fuel inflationary pressures, affecting goods and services, while companies […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’s Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja has upheld the judgment of the Federal High Court restraining the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) from recognising the outcome of the Peoples Democratic Party’s national convention held in Ibadan, Oyo State. The appellate court, in a unanimous decision delivered by a three-member panel led by Justice Uchechukwu […]
Continue ReadingFirst, a caveat: I do not pretend to know the magic solution to Nigeria’s assorted problems, so what you are about to read is not an attempt to say I have suddenly discovered our way out of poverty, disease, unemployment and insecurity. Rather, I have taken another look at our political trajectory since the independence […]
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