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•Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) President-elect Yakubu Maikyau; All Progressives Congress (APC) vice presidential candidate Kashim Shettima; NBA President Olumide Akpata; Chairman, Technical Committee on Conference Planning Tobenna Erojikwe; Guest Speaker Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie; Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar; Edo State Governor Godwin Obaseki; Social Democratic Party (SDP) …

The camps of two former governors of Kano State, Ibrahim Shekarau and Rabiu Kwankwaso have apparently thrown the New Nigeria People’s Party into crisis. Kwankwaso, who apparently has the upper hand in the contest to control the party’s machinery, appear not to feel disturbed about threats to decamp by the …

The National Executive Council (NEC) of the striking Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) will meet on Sunday, August 28, 2022 to take a decision on whether to suspend or continue with the industrial action. Sources among the union’s NEC members told Punch that the meeting will hold at the …

Wole Soyinka Prof. Wole Soyinka, Nobel Laureate, has questioned the federal government’s decision to prescribe the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), but not Miyetti Allah. Speaking exclusively to Channels Television’s NewsNight, a pre-recorded programme that airs every Monday, the literary icon wondered why the government was yet to ban the …

The vice-presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Kashim Shettima, has said that the administration of the APC presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu and himself, will replicate the achievements recorded by Tinubu in Lagos if they both win the 2023 presidential election. The former Governor of Borno State stated this at …

Statement from Emirates Airlines “Emirates has tried every avenue to address our ongoing challenges in repatriating funds from Nigeria, and we have made considerable efforts to initiate dialogue with the relevant authorities for their urgent intervention to help find a viable solution. Regrettably there has been no progress. Therefore, Emirates …

Daniel Usman Alkali Baba, the Inspector General of Police (IGP), has commended SP Daniel Itse Amah, an officer who rejected $200,000 offered to him to bury a case of armed robbery. The police boss also commended two other officers from across the nation who have been exemplary in their line …

The dispute between the National Union of Electricity Employees (NUEE) and the Transmission Company of Nigeria has worsened Nigeria’s ailing power situation. Supply has been shut down at all TCN substations providing electricity the country’s distribution companies. The workers had on August 15 directed its members to picket TCN offices …

Inibehe Effiong Inibehe Effiong, a human rights lawyer, has sued the Akwa Ibom State Chief Judge , Justice Ekaette Obot , seeking for enforcement of his fundamental rights to liberty and fair hearing. The Lagos based lawyer has been in the Correctional facility in the past 21 days following order …

Wike, Odili Nyesom Wike, governor of Rivers State has gifted a mansion to Peter Odili, a former governor of the state on the occasion of his 74th birthday. Mr. Kelvin Ebiri, media aide to the governor who disclosed this in a statement, said the residence was built and donated to …