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A non-governmental organization, Democrats Alliance for Good Governance (DAGG) on Saturday condemned in strong terms the report making the rounds concerning the “secret adoption” of one of the aspirants for the position of the speaker of the 10th House of Representatives, Hon. Tajudeen Abbas from Kaduna State and Hon. Benjamin …

R-L: Suspects arrested from the shanties close to Alaba international market. L-R: An image of the burning shanties by the authorities. The Lagos Police Command has debunked reports of a fire outbreak at the popular Alaba International Market in the state. The state Police Spokesperson, Ben Hundeyin, reacted to the development …

Court A Lagos based businessman, Hilary Ogbobe, has been sentenced to 10 years imprisonment for obtaining N12.4 million by false pretence. However, the Ikeja Special Offences Court discharged and acquitted the convict’s wife, Dorothy, of accessory after the fact to a misdemeanour and held that the allegation was incomplete. Justice …

The World Health Organisation has announced that COVID-19 is no longer a global public health emergency The Director General of WHO, Tedros Ghebreyesus, while speaking at a media conference on Friday, said the global health body’s international health regulations emergency committee made the decision at its 15th meeting on Thursday. …

Veteran Nigerian pop musician Chris Mba, Mr. Alex Otti, the Governor-elect of Abia, has expressed sadness on the death of Mr Chris Mba, a veteran Nigerian musician who died on May 3. His condolence message is contained in a statement issued in Abuja on Friday. Mba was on the front …

Ekweremadu in UK prison Former Nigerian deputy Senate president, Ike Ekweremadu, and his wife, Beatrice, 56, have been sentenced to imprisonment for organ trafficking in the United Kingdom. Senator Ike Ekweremadu, 60, and his wife Beatrice, 56, wanted the organ for their 25-year-old daughter Sonia, the couple’s trial at the …

#image_titleA foremost civil society organisation (CSO), Network Against Corruption and Trafficking (NACAT), has challenged Cross River State governor, Ben Ayade to go to court if he is aggrieved over its exposé on how he misappropriated state funds and diverted over N500 billion to private accounts of different companies and government …

Director General, NAPTIP, Dr Fatima Waziri-Azi The Director-General of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons, Prof Fatima Waziri-Azi, has said that Nigerian women working in Iraq are exploited in diverse ways. The DG disclosed this in a statement while speaking on the plight of young women, …

File photo: Lawyers The Nigerian Bar Association Section on Public Interest and Development Law, NBA SPIDEL, has disclosed it would hold its annual conference from 20th to 23rd June in Ikeja, Lagos state with a focus on the judiciary, post-2023 general elections and the need for judges and lawyers to …

The first batch of Nigerians who fled war-torn Sudan touched down at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, around 11:30 PM on Wednesday. They were airlifted by the Nigerian Air Force and arrived in military jet C13. The Nigerians in Diaspora Commission revealed via a tweet on Thursday that the …