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Many people are feared killed after a mosque collapsed in Papa Ajao area of Lagos State, Nigeria on Sunday afternoon, May 26. The Muslim faithfuls were said to be observing their afternoon prayer when the mosque collapsed. The exact number of casualties and individuals trapped beneath the debris is yet to be determined.
Continue ReadingNigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has condoled with the family of the agency’s third substantive Chairman, Ibrahim Lamorde, who died in Egypt on Sunday. He was 61 years old. Reports say, Lamorde died on Sunday morning in Egypt, where he had gone for medical treatment. His death was confirmed by close associates, although […]
Continue ReadingThere is a sense in which both Nigerians and Mr. Tinubu share a place in purgatory in the last one year. Both leader and people are dwelling a house of incendiary troubles in waiting for admission into either hell or heaven. To that extent, we all have been in purgatory for the last one year […]
Continue ReadingAttorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Lateef Fagbemi SAN, has filed a suit with number SC/CV/343/2024, on behalf of the Federal Government, at the Nigerian supreme Court, against the 36 state governors in the country while seeking full autonomy for local governments. The AGF, in the suit, urged the apex court to issue […]
Continue ReadingDeputy Comptroller, Finance Administration and Technical Service of the Nigerian Customs Service, Essien Etop Andrew, has passed away. Andrew, who was a guest of the Public Account Committee of the House of Reps where he appeared for questioning on Tuesday in continuation of the ongoing probe of revenue-generating agencies and parastatals of government, died at […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’s Federal High Court sitting in Lagos and presided over by Justice Yellim Bogoro, has ordered an interim forfeiture of the sums of $4,719,054, N830,875,611, and several properties linked to the former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele. The judge made the order on Thursday, following an ex-parte application filed by […]
Continue ReadingNigerian man, Ife Salako, has taken to social media to call out Wole Soyinka on his attack on the Labour Party (LP) Presidential Candidate for 2023 elections, his excellency, Peter Obi. In a 4-minute video, Ife Salako, who identifies as an Obidient, with a view of pointing out the hypocrisy in the Professor’s words, beamed […]
Continue ReadingKano’s Muhammad Sanusi II has been rethroned the exact way he was initially enthroned and dethroned: in the melting pot of the politics of vengeance and recrimination. And he just might be dethroned yet again by this, or another subsequent partisan government, given Sanusi’s infamous incapacity to rein in his tongue and to understand the […]
Continue ReadingAt least 200 senior and junior officials of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) were on Friday relieved of their duties. This will be adding to the list of about 117 staff members sacked by the bank between March 15 and April 11, 2024. The latest CBN termination of appointments affects directors, deputy directors, assistant […]
Continue Reading“The day that turned out to be my husband’s last day in this world started like any other day in our home. I was busy getting the children ready for school while he prepared for work. Right from when we became a part of each other’s life, we had the habit of saying goodbye with […]
Continue ReadingThe Police Command in Enugu state has said that an Abuja-based online publisher, Mr Madu Onuorah, was arrested over alleged defamatory publication against a US-based Reverend Sister. This is contained in a statement issued by the Command’s Spokesman, DSP Daniel Ndukwe, on Thursday in Enugu. Ndukwe said: “The Enugu State Police Command is in receipt […]
Continue ReadingGovernor of Kano State, Abba Yusuf, has on Friday, formally reappointed Muhammadu Sanusi II as the 16th Emir of Kano, and gave him his reinstatement letter at the Government House in Kano. While giving the letter, the governor said: “By the powers conferred on me by the Kano Emirate Council Law of 1984 and 2024, […]
Continue ReadingGovernor of Kano State, Abba Yusuf, on Friday, promised to report Justice Mohammed Liman of a Federal High Court for allegedly giving an order stopping the reinstatement of Sanusi Lamido as the 16th Emir of Kano from the United States. Governor Yusuf said he would report the judge to the Nigeria Governors’ Forum. Justice Liman […]
Continue ReadingA Federal High Court sitting in Kano and presided over by Justice Mohammed Liman, has issued an order preventing the Kano State Government and security agencies from enforcing the Kano State Emirate Council (Repeal) Law. Justice Liman granted the order in an application by Alhaji Aminu Babba Dan Agundi, the Sarkin Dawaki Babba of the […]
Continue ReadingKano, a city steeped in history and tradition, has witnessed a turbulent past marked by the frequent depositions and removals of its traditional rulers, the Emirs. On Thursday, the Kano State House of Assembly repealed the law establishing additional emirates. The Assembly dissolved all the four newly created emirate councils in the state. The dissolution […]
Continue ReadingScheduled Thursday’s proceeding in the trial of the detained Binance executive, Tigran Gambaryan, at the Federal High Court Abuja quickly took a dramatic turn following the defendant’s collapse. Shortly after the matter was called upon by the court registrar for continuation of trial, the defendant did not step forward to the dock. He remained seated […]
Continue ReadingThere is a problem about the institutional framework in which the Nigerian state as presently constituted is based. To have democracy, good governance and credible elections, there must be institutional reforms and great accountability in government. The three are interwoven, only that we tend to think that democracy is all about elections. In any case, […]
Continue ReadingControversial Nigerian singer, Darlington Okoye popularly known as Speed Darlington, has advised men to avoid marrying Igbo women. The comic rapper recently announced that he is looking for a wife and stated that one of the criteria must be fluency in Igbo language. However, apparently making a U-turn on his preference for Igbo ladies, the […]
Continue ReadingJustice Emeka Nwite of a Federal High Court in Abuja has granted the suspended Commander of the Inspector General of Police Intelligence Response Team and Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP), Abba Kyari, permission to go home and conclude his mother’s burial rites. Kyari has been in custody of the Kuje Correctional Centre, Abuja, since 2022, […]
Continue ReadingNorway, Ireland and Spain said Wednesday they would recognize a Palestinian state, a historic but largely symbolic move that further deepens Israel’s isolation more than seven months into its grinding war against Hamas in Gaza. Israel immediately denounced the decisions and recalled its ambassadors to the three countries. Palestinians welcomed the announcements as an affirmation […]
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