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A Federal High Court in Lagos yesterday fixed December 17 for hearing a winding-up petition filed by Vacant Board Limited against sponsors of this year’s Big Brother Naija (BBN) show, Payporte Global System Limited. Justice Ayokunle Faji fixed the date for hearing after granting a motion by the respondent seeking to regularise its processes. At the hearing, Mr Yemi Fajuyitan ... Read More »

He also met with the security chiefs on Tuesday, at the end of which Mansur Dan-Ali, Minister of Defence, urged EKiti, Benue and Taraba states to suspend the anti-grazing laws, saying this would further help in negotiating a safe route for herdsmen and their livestock. For the third time in four days, President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday held a meeting ... Read More »

The Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Ibrahim Idris, wants Federal High Court in Abuja to quash the Senate’s May 9, 2018, declaring him an enemy of democracy and unfit to hold public office within and outside Nigeria. On Thursday, Idris commenced the process of suing the Senate and its President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, by obtaining the court’s leave, the order permitting ... Read More »

Senate President, Bukola Saraki says  he has tendered his response to the Police on the Investigation into the Offa bank robbery incident. Saraki said on Thursday that his written response to the Police on the robbery incident was in compliance to the demand of the Police that he should put down his response in writing. The Police had earlier asked ... Read More »

“We were looking for a criminal and he was being sheltered by the IG — just like you are looking for the vehicle with which a bank was robbed and you find it in the state house. That is the level of impunity in our country. And some people are shouting ‘this is political victimisation’. Nonsensical! Human rights lawyer Mr. ... Read More »

President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday ordered the immediate gazetting of his directive declaring June 12 as Democracy Day in honor of the acclaimed winner of the June 12, 1993 presidential election, late Chief Moshood Abiola. The President had on Wednesday conferred national honours on Abiola and other heroes of democracy. According to a statement issued by his Senior Special Assistant ... Read More »

The Speaker, Lagos State House of Assembly, Mr Mudashiru Obasa, says declaration of June 12 as Democracy Day has vindicated age-long agitations by some Nigerians for same.Obasa made the assertion in Lagos in a statement signed by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr Mudashiru Obasa, on Thursday.He praised President Muhammadu Buhari for the declaration on Wednesday. “This is because it was ... Read More »

  More suspects in the April 5 bloody robbery in Offa, Kwara State, have been linked with Senate President Bukola Saraki, the police claimed yesterday. Two of the three suspects mentioned by the ring leaders in connection with the crime in which 33 people, including nine policemen, were killed, have been arrested. Police spokesman Jimoh Moshood said five of the ... Read More »

Says he was on a mission to kill policemen The dismissed Corporal turned leader of the armed robbery gang that attacked commercial banks in Offa, Kwara State, Michael Adiku has told detectives why he wasted many lives including those of policemen that day. Adiku, who said he was on a killing spree, told operatives of the Inspector-General of Police (IG) ... Read More »