The Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has sued the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) over the alleged threat to arrest, detain and prosecute him after his tenure as governor. Sanwo Olu’s lawyer, Darlington Ozurumba, filed the fundamental right enforcement suit before Justice Joyce Abdulmalik of a Federal High Court in Abuja. When the matter was called for mention on Tuesday, Ozurumba informed the court that he had withdrawn the earlier originating summons filed and replaced it with a new one. The lawyer said the anti-graft agency had been duly served with the latest court documents. However, the EFCC counsel,…
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The Governing Council of Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, led by the Pro-Chancellor and Chairman of Council, Amb. Greg Mbadiwe has appointed Professor Benard Ifeanyi Odoh as the 7th substantive Vice Chancellor of the University. Odoh, a Professor of Geophysics, is of the Department of Applied Geophysics, Faculty of Physical Sciences of the University. Announcing the appointment on Tuesday after a selection process and interview of the 18 applicants for the position, Mbadiwe disclosed that Odoh clinched the 1st position from the pool of the applicants for the job based on his evidence-based significant experience in University Teaching, Research and Administration.…
Chelsea legend Gianfranco Zola has backed Cole Palmer to compete for the next Ballon d’Or. Palmer finished 25th in the 2024 Ballon d’Or rankings on Monday. The 22-year-old scored 25 goals and provided 15 assists in 45 matches for the Blues last season. Speaking to Mirror, Zola insisted that Palmer needs to work a lot in his game in order to challenge for the top individual prize. “He needs to work a lot on his game, of course, because he is still young and there are things that can make him better,” Zola said. “And if he does that, he…
The Federal Government of Nigeria said its recent tax reform bill, which was recently transmitted to the National Assembly, will bring about a fairer tax system in the country. The chairman of the Presidential Committee on Fiscal Policy and Tax Reforms, Taiwo Oyedele, disclosed this in a statement through his official X account on Tuesday. This comes after northern governors on Monday, in a communiqué signed by the chairman of the Northern Governors’ Forum, Muhammadu Inuwa, the governor of Gombe State, rejected President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s tax reform bill. The governors had rejected the bill on the ground that its…
The Nigerian Senate has expressed concern over the spate of vandalism of power lines that led to total blackout in the northern states, particularly Kano, Jigawa, Katsina and other North West areas. While presiding over plenary on Tuesday, the Deputy Senate President, Jibrin Barau, lamented the long period of power outages and informed lawmakers in the upper legislative chamber that the situation calls for concern. Barau explained that restoring the vandalised transmission line became pretty difficult because the specific area of vandalism was terrorist-infested; hence, it wasn’t safe for the staff of the Transmission Company of Nigeria, TCN, to work…
The Osun State House of Assembly has introduced the Osun State Multi-Door Court Establishment Bill, 2024. The move by the Assembly according to a statement issued by Olamide Tiamiyu, the Chief Press Secretary to the Speaker, Adewale Egbedun on Tuesday is aimed at reforming the judicial system in the state. The bill, which was sponsored by Femi Popoola, representing Boripe-Boluwaduro State Constituency, seeks to implement Alternative Dispute Resolution, ADR, mechanisms that promise to alleviate the burden on traditional courts and ensure more timely and effective justice for citizens. The statement highlighting key policy objectives presented by Popoola emphasised ”the bill’s…
The Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, Ikeja Branch on Tuesday, urged President Bola Tinubu to put in place policies and effective measures aimed at reducing economic pressures on the citizens. The association expressed displeasure on the latest increase in the pump of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) across the country and the 250 per cent tariff hike in electricity. The Chairman of the Branch, Mr Oluwaseyi Olawumi, said this on Tuesday while addressing the newsmen in Ikeja, on the increasing fuel price, inflation, and rising cost of living in the country. Olawumi said there was a need for the government to put…
Lawmaker representing Ngor-Okpala State Constituency at Imo House of Assembly, Obinna Egu has appealed to the youths of host communities to Sam Mbakwe International Cargo Airport to withhold their planned protest over the gruesome murder of a pregnant woman within the airport premises. The Lawmaker’s intervention followed the threat by the host community youths of the airport under the auspices of Onyeaghalanwanneya Youths Movement(OYM), to ground operations at the airport runway in protest of the alleged non-concern attitude of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria, FAAN towards the killing of the pregnant woman. It was gathered that the pregnant woman…
has raised the alarm over the alleged plan by the outgoing government of Governor Godwin Obaseki for a supplementary budget barely two weeks to the end of the administration. DAILY POST reports that Prince Kassim Afegbua, a member of the APC transition committee raised the alarm on Tuesday in a statement made available to newsmen in Benin City. Afegbua opined that with the development, the outgoing government was leaving an empty treasure for the incoming government to work. He, however, added that the Speaker of the State House of Assembly, Blessing Agbebaku, turned down the request of the Governor. He…
The kidnapped University of Nigeria, Nsukka, UNN, senior lecturer, Prof Oguejiofo Ujam has regained freedom. Ujam, kidnapped along the Ugwuogo-Opi Nsukka Road, reportedly escaped from his captors at the Ninth Mile axis of the state. This is also as the police foiled another kidnap attempt on the same road on Monday, barely 24 hours after the university don was abducted. The Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, Enugu Police Command, DSP Daniel Ndukwe confirmed the developments in a statement made available to journalists on Tuesday. Ndukwe said, “Operatives of the Enugu State Police Command attached to Unity Division foiled a suspected…