Extradition detention: FG opposes ex-Mint boss, Okoyomon’s bail application
Ade Adesomoju The Federal Government, through the office of the Attorney-General of the Federation, has opposed an application for bail by a former Managing Director of Nigeria Security Minting and...
View ArticleCourt adjourns pharmacists’ drugs registration suit against CPC
Ramon Oladimeji A Federal High Court in Lagos has adjourned till November 30, 2015 further proceedings in a suit filed by the Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria against the Consumer Protection Council....
View ArticleIs parade of criminal suspect constitutional?
Yinka Aileru For a very long time now, it has become the practice nay, the norm for police officers to parade persons suspected of committing one offence or the other before the public. Usually, in a...
View ArticleAPC candidate appeals tribunal’s verdict
Ramon Oladimeji The candidate of the All Progressives Congress in the April 11, 2015 Lagos State House of Assembly Election in Ojo Constituency 1, Muhibat Rufai-Adeyemi, has rejected the verdict of the...
View ArticleN26.2bn debt: Court orders businessman to forfeit hotel
Ramon Oladimeji A Federal High Court in Lagos last week entered judgment in favour of Diamond Bank in a N26.2bn debt recovery suit it filed against a businessman, Chief Sunny Odogwu, and his two...
View ArticleWe pass maximum sentence on drug convicts – FHC
The Federal High Court says contrary to The PUNCH’s story, ‘Judicial sympathy: Drug convicts get warning as punishment’ published on October 19, 2015, its judges have been passing maximum sentence on...
View ArticleDeadly Taliban inter-fighting erupts in Afghanistan
Aljazeera Violent clashes between two rival Taliban groups in southern Afghanistan killed at least 50 fighters from both sides, a police chief told Al Jazeera. On Sunday, Mirwais Noorzai said fighters...
View ArticleTerrorist on wanted list arrested at Abuja Airport
The declaration of 100 suspected Boko Haram terrorists has started to pay the desired dividend as one of them was arrested as he attempted to flee. At the Nnamdi Azikwe International Airport, Abuja, on...
View ArticleMTN Group CEO resigns over N1.04tn fine
Ozioma Ubabukoh MTN Group President and Chief Executive Officer, Sifiso Dabengwa, resigned on Monday morning over the N1.04tn fine imposed on MTN Nigeria by the country’s regulatory body – the Nigerian...
View ArticleSix sentenced to death for brutal Bangladesh child murders
AFP A Bangladesh court Sunday handed four men the death sentence over the brutal killing of a 13-year-old boy that provoked national outrage after video footage of the attack went viral, a lawyer said....
View ArticlePalestinian woman attempts stabbing, shot dead
A Palestinian woman attempted to attack Israeli security guards with a knife at a checkpoint in the north of the occupied West Bank on Monday before being shot dead, officials said. Guards fired...
View ArticleRwanda’s president condemns deadly violence in Burundi
AFP Rwandan President Paul Kagame implored neighbouring Burundi to avoid the ethnic violence that ended in genocide in his country in 1994, in an emotional speech that was shared on social media on...
View ArticleDPR, DSS to check petroleum product diversion in Benue
The Department of Petroleum Resources says it is partnering with the Department of State Services to check product diversion in Benue. Its Operations Controller, Benjamin Ewuga, told the News Agency of...
View ArticleDPR seals 35 petrol stations in Akwa Ibom
The Department of Petroleum Resources, Eket Office, on Monday said it had sealed 35 petrol stations in Akwa Ibom for selling fuel above the approved pump price of N87. The DPR Operations Controller in...
View ArticleFG arraigns Orubebe for N70m bribery, false assets declaration
Ade Adesomoju The Federal Government, through the Code of Conduct Bureau, on Monday arraigned a former Minister of Niger Delta, Mr. Godsday Orubebe, on four counts of false assets declaration and...
View ArticleOur promised change, all-encompassing package – Buhari
Olalekan Adetayo President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday said the change promised Nigerians by the governing All Progressives Congress would be an all-encompassing package. He said the change would affect...
View ArticleBuhari congratulates Golden Eaglets
Olalekan Adetayo, Abuja President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday congratulated the Golden Eaglets of Nigeria on their victory over Mali in the final match of this year’s Under-17 FIFA World Cup tournament...
View ArticleBuratai asks troops to give Boko Haram final push
The Chief of Army Staff, Lt-Gen. Tukur Buratai, on Monday urged troops in the North-East to remain focussed in their final push to end insurgency in the country. Buratai, who visited the front line...
View ArticleSynagogue: Court rejects engineers’ application to stop prosecution
Ramon Oladimeji A Federal High Court in Lagos on Monday dismissed the fundamental rights enforcement suits filed by the engineers who built the collapsed Synagogue Church of All Nations’ six-storey...
View ArticleArmy confirms arrest of wanted Boko Haram suspect
The Nigerian Army, on Monday called for greater vigilance by Nigerians to track down Boko Haram members it declared wanted recently. This is contained in a statement issued by the acting Army...
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