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The United Bank for Africa Plc (UBA) has announced its audited results for the full-year ended December 2019, recording impressive growth across top and bottom lines. According to the 2019 financials filed at the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) last Friday, the bank’s gross earnings grew by 13.3% to N559.8 billion, compared to N494 billion recorded […]

President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the suspension of the coordinator of the Presidential Amnesty Program, Professor Charles Dokubo. Buhari also ordered that a caretaker committee is set up to review the programme take over its running henceforth. A statement issued by the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, said the […]

Last Friday, the lawyers representing Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, former Senate President, appeared before Justice Rilwan Aikawa of the Federal High Court, Lagos, to oppose the application by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for the forfeiture of his Ilorin home funded partly with funds provided by Kwara State Government in fulfillment of the […]

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has sent an open letter to the Senate President Dr Ahmad Lawan, urging him to use his leadership position to “ensure that the bill that would allow ‘repentant Boko Haram terrorists’ opportunities to access public funds to enjoy foreign education is immediately dropped, and to sponsor bills that would […]

On August 1, 2016, after decades of deadlock, the Buhari administration took a major step towards kick-starting and revitalizing the steel sector as it signed a renegotiated concession agreement with Global Steel Holdings Ltd (GSHL) for the Nigerian Iron Ore Mining Company (NIOMCO), Itakpe. By the new agreement, the Ajaokuta Steel Complex reverted to the […]

The Supreme Court yesterday excoriated two lawyers of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief Afe Babalola (SAN) and Wole Olanipekun (SAN), for daring to file an application for a review of its February 13, 2020 judgment that nullified the victory of the party’s candidate in the governorship election in Bayelsa State. It described the application […]

All over the world, where the common law is being practiced, it is standard for the apex court to review its own judgments. In Nigeria, there are a few occasions where the Supreme Court has been asked to review its decision in Nigeria and on those occasions, a couple of them were successful. But the […]

Former National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Olisah Metuh, and his firm, Destra Investments Limited, have been sentenced to seven years in prison. This was after he was found guilty of count one, two and three of the seven-count charge levelled against them by the Federal Government. Justice Okon Abang of […]