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Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Femi Falana, has faulted the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) over threats to seal embassies and other properties in Abuja over unpaid ground rent, describing the move as illegal and diplomatically dangerous.Falana, speaking on Channels Television today, during an interview, said that any attempt to close embassies violates the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, which guarantees the inviolability of diplomatic premises. “As far as the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations is concerned, the premises of any embassy in Abuja are inviolable,” he said. “By virtue of Article 22 of that convention, the premises of an embassy,…

The Centre for Girls Education Zaria has appealed for a harmonized data of out-of-school children and described the worsening figure of out of school children in northern Nigeria as politically exaggerated.Hajiya Habiba Mohammed, Director of the centre disclosed this in an interview with newsman in Zaria. Recall that the United Nations Children’s Fund estimates that 18.3 million children in Nigeria are out of school.SPONSOR AD The director said the data are mostly not realistic as it keeps fluctuating; and most of the figures vary; stressing that there is no authentic data base on practical assessment.“We have issues with data when…

Peter Obi, the 2023 Labour Party presidential candidate, has criticised several policies of the Tinubu-led administration, noting that while some of the reforms are necessary, their implementation has been poorly executed.Speaking during an interview on Arise TV’s Morning Show, Obi reiterated that he, too, would have removed the fuel subsidy, but insisted he would have done so differently. “I have consistently maintained that I would have removed the fuel subsidy. It is in my manifesto. But I would have done it in an organised manner,” he said.SPONSOR AD Obi said the issue was not the removal itself—which he supports—but the…

Poor response to emergency cases and medical negligence have continued to bedevil the Federal Medical Centre (FMC), Abuja, investigations have shown.Findings reveal that while the hospital has recorded achievements in infrastructural expansion and adoption of new medical procedures, it has however faced persistent cases of patients and their caregivers lamenting medical negligence and slow response to people in need of emergency services. Some residents have lamented being turned away at the emergency unit of the hospital when their relatives were in dire need of care to save their lives.SPONSOR AD They alleged that the delay or no response at all…

The gale of defections from opposition parties in the National Assembly has increased the membership of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) to 68 in the Senate and about 207 in the House of Representatives, barely two years into the life of the 10th National Assembly.With Senator Neda Imasuen of the Labour Party, representing Edo South, set to formally defect to the APC on Thursday, June 12, the party’s Senate strength is expected to rise from the current 68 to 69 once the defection is officially announced. The number may also rise to 70 if Senator Ahmed Wadada Aliyu, who…

Despite federal warnings and the growing threat of deadly floods across the country, many residents in high-risk communities are refusing to evacuate, citing lack of alternatives and broken promises by authorities. Instead, they are calling on the government to deliver on its commitments and provide meaningful support before disaster strikes. This comes in the wake of a devastating flood in Mokwa, Niger State, where over 200 lives were lost and hundreds more declared missing. The federal government has since raised alarm over imminent flood risks in 30 states and the Federal Capital Territory. Minister of Water Resources and Sanitation, Prof.…

The Ekiti State police command have arraigned five persons at the Chief Magistrate Court in Ado-Ekiti over alleged conspiracy and assault.The defendants are Onileowo Kayode (63), Olubunmi Akinyemi (57), Samuel Asoore, (65), Karimu Raji (55) and Tope Amogbon (54). The prosecutor, Inspector Akinwale Oriyomi, said the defendants and others, now at large, on or about April 24 at Odo-Ekiti assaulted one Abass Wada and Israel Wada by causing severe harm to them.SPONSOR AD He said the defendants conducted themselves in a manner likely to cause breach of peace in the society.Counsel to the defendants, Barrister J. J. Tijani, urged the…

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Tuesday, May 27, left Abuja for Lagos to attend the 50th anniversary of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS).The president was also expected to commission some projects as part of his two years’ anniversary in office, especially Section I of the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway and Lekki Deep Sea Port Tax Credit Concrete Road. According to presidential spokesman, Bayo Onanuga, the president will also observe the Eid-el-Kabir prayers at the State House, Dodan Barracks, before returning to Abuja.SPONSOR AD However, while in Lagos, many politicians and business moguls alike have turned the Bourdillon residence…

For the second successive year, the Mobolaji Johnson Arena, Lagos will host the final of the President Federation Cup competition, which is scheduled for Saturday, 28th June.This brings to 61 the number of final matches of the oldest inter-club competition in Nigeria that stadiums located in Lagos- the former capital of Nigeria- have hosted since the inception of the single knockout tournament in 1942. This competition was known variously in the past as Governor’s Cup, FA Cup, Challenge Cup and now the President’s Federation Cup.SPONSOR AD Of the 60 Final matches held in Lagos, 18 were staged at the King…

A woman displaced by recent violence in Benue State has been delivered of a set of quadruplets.The mother, identified as Shidoo Tortiv, hails from Ucha village in Gwer West Local Government Area (LGA).She and her husband, Wilfred Tortiv, were forced to flee their home due to ongoing insecurity and have been taking shelter with relatives in Kula, a nearby community within the same council area.The father of the new babies told our correspondent on Monday that at the time of delivery, the family was not residing in any of the state’s official IDP camps.Tortiv said the birth took place at…