A duty solicitor recounted a harrowing experience where he was restrained by “four or five” court security staff, despite his plea that he couldn’t breathe. Defence solicitor Dele Johnson, speaking with The Law Society Gazette, described how guards pinned him down with their knees after he refused a security search request to remove his shoes….
President Bola Tinubu is expected to receive a report on the performance status of the Federal Government’s ministries, departments and agencies for the first quarter of 2024. Presidency sources with knowledge of the developments said the report will form the basis of the President’s assessment of his ministers. “What I know is that an interim…
Trade relations between Nigeria and the United Kingdom have reached £7bn, British High Commissioner to Nigeria Richard Montgomery said on Sunday. In an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja, Montgomery announced that the two nations have signed a new agreement on enhanced trade and investment partnership. The agreement aims to boost…
President Vladimir Putin has ordered the Russian military to hold nuclear weapons drills involving the navy and troops based near Ukraine, the defence ministry said Monday. Putin has upped his nuclear rhetoric since the Ukraine conflict began, warning in his address to the nation in February there was a “real” risk of nuclear war.“During the…
Billionaire, Arthur Eze, has urged Nigerians to support President Bola Tinubu while praising his inclusive approach to governance. He made the remarks in a video widely shared on social media, which showed him donating N20m to a church. Eze said, “Tinubu has no boundary. If you go to Abuja, you will see Wike, an Igbo…
Uchechi Kanu, the wife of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu has hailed the the senator representing Anambra South Senatorial District, Senator Ifeanyi Ubah, for facilitating her visit to her husband at the facility of the Department of State Services in Abuja. During a live session on Radio Biafra on Sunday,…
The Tomato Crates Dealers Association of Nigeria has threatened to cut tomato supply to Lagos State over the alleged destruction of its goods. The association’s National Chairman, Alhaji Ahmed Alaramma, stated this during a news briefing in Zaria on Sunday. Alaramma who is also the National Secretary of the Amalgamated Union of Foodstuff and Cattle…
The mother of the late four-year-old Miguel Ovoke, who recently died at the BrickHall School located in the Cadastral Zone B11, Kaura, in Abuja, on Monday, stormed the school in the company of others to protest the death of her son. The mother of the deceased four-year-old Miguel protesting. The lady alleged that the school…
The Osun State Governor, Ademola Adeleke, on Monday, promised to look into the insinuations that many indigenes of the state were forcefully evacuated from Lagos and dumped at Ilesa by officials of Lagos State Government. A statement by the spokesperson to the governor, Olawale Rasheed, said Adeleke had already spoken to his Lagos State counterpart,…
The House of Representatives Committee on Student Loans, Scholarships and Higher Education Financing, has congratulated the founder of Zenith Bank Nigeria Plc, Mr Jim Ovia, over his appointment as Chairman of the Nigerian Education Loan Fund. Recall that President Bola Tinubu appointed Ovia the Chairman of NELFUND on Friday, April 26, 2024, in line with…
The Ikeja Electricity Distribution Company has slashed the tariff payable by its Band A customers to N206.80 per kilowatt-hour from the N225/kWh approved by the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission. The spokesperson for the IKEDC, Olufadeke Omo-Omorodion, disclosed this to our correspondent in a notice on Monday. According to the notice, the downward tariff review of…
The newly inaugurated committee of the All Progressives Congress’s Progressive People’s Resolution (APC-PPR) has vowed to consolidate its stronghold by ensuring that it unseat the ruling People’s Democratic Party in Ikot Abasi Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State. The Coordinator of the group in Ikot Abasi Federal Constituency, John Ayang, who stated this during…