MTN Nigeria Communication Ltd has filed a fresh suit at the Federal High Court in Lagos to challenge the legality of N242 billion and $1.3 billion import duties and withholding tax demanded from it by the Federal Government. It is demanding N3billion general and exemplary damages and legal costs from the defendant. Justice Chukwujekwu Aneke on Thursday adjourned the ... Read More »

The Ekiti State Governor, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, has ordered the closure of the new ultramodern market in Ado Ekiti over alleged structural defects. The governor, according to a press release by his Chief Press Secretary, Olayinka Oyebode, took the decision following the inspection of the Oja Oba market. The new market was built by the immediate past governor, Ayodele Fayose, ... Read More »

The Federal High Court in Abuja on Thursday turned down the request by the Federal Government to issue an arrest warrant against the Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu. The Special Presidential Investigation Panel for the Recovery of Public Property had, on behalf of the Federal Government, urged the court to order the arrest of Ekweremadu following the absence of the ... Read More »

President Muhammadu Buhari and the Ogun State Governor, Ibikunle Amosun, are meeting again inside the Presidential Villa, Abuja. Amosun is one of the governors elected on the platform of the ruling All Progressives Congress aggrieved by the outcome of the party’s primary elections. The party’s National Working Committee refused to recognise his preferred candidate for the governorship race. The meeting ... Read More »

The National Industrial Court of Nigeria, in Abuja, on Thursday ordered both the Federal Government and the organised labour to submit a report of their negotiations on the disputes over the new minimum wage by January 30, 2019. Justice Sanusi Kado had on November 2, 2018 adjourned the case till Thursday after issuing an ex parte order stopping the strike ... Read More »

The Chairman, Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption, Prof. Itse Sagay (SAN), says the Kano State House of Assembly is not equipped to investigate Governor Abdullahi Ganduje who was allegedly caught on camera collecting bribes from contractors. A video had gone viral on the Internet purportedly showing Ganduje collecting dollars as kickbacks from contractors, a development which prompted an investigation by ... Read More »

An Igbosere High Court in Lagos on Wednesday heard that a lawyer, Mrs Udeme Otike-Odibi, who allegedly stabbed her husband, Symphorosa Otike-Odibi, to death and cut off his penis, believed he was cheating on her. A witness, Chijioke Akukuma, told Justice Adedayo Akintoye that Otike-Odibi complained to him that Symphorosa kept pornographic material on his phone and that he was ... Read More »

A Federal high court sitting in Lagos South-West Nigeria has adjourned till November 15, 2018, the suit filed by Buruju Kashamu, the senator representing Ogun East senatorial District, to forestall a fresh move by the Federal Government Nigeria to extradite him to the United States of America for drug-related charges. Joined as defendants in the suit are the Inspector General ... Read More »

Senate President, Abubakar Bukola Saraki, on Monday appealed to the Federal Government and the organized labour to take steps to find a middle ground to avert the looming industrial action by members of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) over new minimum wage. Saraki also urged Government and the leadership of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Trade Union Congress (TUC) to ... Read More »

Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo (middle); Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode (left) and APC Governorship Candidate, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu (right), interacting with Traders during the launch of the TraderMoni Scheme in Ketu, Bariga and Oshodi Markets in Lagos. The Federal Government on Monday launched the special enterprise and empowerment programme,TraderMoni in three additional markets in Lagos. The markets are ... Read More »