The 36 state governors, through their respective Attorneys General and Commissioners for Justice, have dragged the Minister of Justice and…
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Nigeria: Anxiety Mounts As INEC Chairman’s Tenure Expires Nov 9
Abuja — Who becomes the next chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) as the tenure of the incumbent,…
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Nigeria: #EndSARS – Governor Vows to Hold Community Leaders Responsible for Breach of Peace
“Some people want the state to go back to ethnoreligious crises by hijacking the protest, I will not allow people…
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Nigeria: Police Brutality – Lagos Govt Releases List of Ongoing Criminal Prosecution of Erring Officers
Lagos State Government on Thursday released a list of about 20 ongoing criminal cases in courts against various erring police…
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Nigeria: #EndSARS Protest – 2 Policemen Killed, 10 Stations, 3 Banks, Malls Looted in Lagos
Lagos — The Lagos State Police Command says about 10 police stations were burnt and two of its officers killed…
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Nigeria: #EndSARS – Confusion As Judges, Staff, Litigants, Ordered to Vacate Abuja Federal High Court
Court official said the instruction came from the National Judicial Council (NJC) down to the chief judge that all staff…
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Nigeria: Anambra North Steps Up for Governorship in 2021
Davidson Iriekpen writes that the Anambra State governorship election may still be one year away, but the people of the…
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Nigeria: Official Mishandling of the #EndSARS Protests
In my first year at the University of Ife (now Obafemi Awolowo University) I took part in the “Ali Must…
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Nigeria: Correctional Service Speaks On Edo Jailbreaks, Says #EndSARS Protesters Freed Inmates
Following insinuations on how inmates escaped from the Benin and Oko correctional centres Monday morning based on scenes from videos…
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Nigeria: The Proposed Water Bill – Dispossessing Okon to Give to Abdullahi (II)
Introduction The proposed Water Resources Bill, is causing expected national hoopla and ruckus. It is not for nothing. There is…
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Nigeria: Democratic Recession – Strongman Politics As Undertaker
Lagos — “Look around, strong man politics are ascendant suddenly, whereby elections and some pretense of democracy are maintained but…
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Nigeria: £2.556b Fraud Attempt – Supreme Court to Hear CBN’s Appeal Against Petro Union Tomorrow
The Supreme Court will tomorrow begin hearing on the appeal filed by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and Union…
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Nigeria: 36 State A-Gs Drag AGF to Supreme Court Over Judicial Funding
Former President of the Nigerian Bar Association, Mr. Augustine Alegeh, SAN, has on behalf of the Attorney-General of Abia State…
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Nigeria: Halt Fresh Oil Licensing Processes – Ijaw Leaders Tell Buhari
Leaders of Ijaw communities in the Niger Delta region have restated their demand for the stoppage of the recently launched…
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Nigeria: Constitution Review – Nigeria Battling to Survive – Gbajabiamila
Abuja — Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rep Femi Gbajabimila has declared that the country is in an intense…
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Nigeria: Historic Perspective On the Pardon of Alli and Enahoro (IV)
This is the concluding part of the piece which was first published three weeks ago. Last week ended thus: A…
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Nigeria: Magistrates, IG Have No Powers to Freeze Bank Accounts, Court Rules
A Federal High Court in Abuja has ruled that magistrate courts do not have the powers to issue orders freezing…
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Nigeria: Osinbajo – Govt Nearing Completion of Afam Power, Yola Disco Privatisation
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, yesterday said that the federal government was concluding the process of privatising the Afam Power Station…
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Nigeria: How Critical Online Journalism, Social Media Activism Became Cybercrime in Nigeria
On February 13, 2020, Agba Jalingo, the publisher of the online newspaper Cross River Watch, regained tentative freedom after a…
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Nigeria: Lawyer Visits Ailing Lecturer, Says ‘His Blood Will Be On the University’
A Lagos-based human rights lawyer, Inibehe Effiong, on Monday, paid a visit to the ailing Nigerian lecturer, Inih Ebong, who…
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