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Sahara Reporters publisher and convener of the #RevolutionNow protests, Omoyele Sowore has sued the Department of State Services (DSS) over the violation of his fundamental human rights. Among other reliefs sought, Sowore’s lawyer Femi Falana said in the suit marked FHC/ABJ /C51409/2019 dated November 20, 2019; that his client is seeking:   “An order of […]

President Muhammadu Buhari has warned that under no circumstances should bandits and kidnappers be allowed to hold the country to ransom even as he ordered security forces to be ruthless in dealing with criminal elements. The warning came after the 2019 Global Terrorism Index (GTI) report revealed that attacks from Fulani cattle herders killed more […]

Despite persistent rumors that he may seek another term, President Muhammadu Buhari Friday said he has no intention to seek a third term, saying the Nigerian constitution permits a maximum of two terms for governors and president.    For him to do that, the constitution will need to be amended. But Buhari, who once led […]

The Abuja Division of the Court of Appeal, on Friday, revised the conditions attached to the bail earlier granted to former National Security Adviser (NSA) Colonel Sambo Dasuki (rtd.). This was sequel to a formal application by Dasuki to the appellate court to review the conditions which according to him are stringent and unable to […]

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) yesterday called on the international community to impose a travel ban on the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, and other INEC officials as well as some top officials of the Nigeria Police Force for their perceived roles in last Saturday’s Bayelsa and Kogi gubernatorial […]

Allen Ifechukwu Athan Onyema, the Chairman, CEO, and founder of Air Peace, a Nigerian airline, has been charged with bank fraud and money laundering for moving more than $20 million from Nigeria through United States bank accounts in a scheme involving false documents based on the purchase of airplanes.  The international airline’s Chief of Administration […]

Despite obvious ambush by state governors elected on the platform of All Progressives Congress (APC) against the party’s national chairman, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, today’s meeting of the National Executive Committee (NEC) would not discuss his speculated removal. As APC’s NEC holds today, most observers believe that it would afford the governors the opportunity to exert […]

State governors yesterday expressed support for the Finance Bill, which seeks to increase Value Added Tax (VAT) from five per cent to 7.5 per cent. Rising from their monthly meeting in Abuja, vice-chairman of the Nigerian Governors Forum (NGF) and Sokoto State Governor Aminu Tambuwal said: “We are in support of that bill. We are […]

In what observers have described was a slap on the face of Kano State Governor, Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, a Kano State High Court yesterday nullified the creation of four additional first-class emirates and their emirs by the state government.   Subsequently, the court invalidated and ordered the immediate dissolution of their emirate councils established alongside […]

The ECOWAS Parliament yesterday renewed its call on the Nigerian government to reopen its borders, stating that the development was hampering the implementation of the free movement of persons and goods within the West Africa sub-region.   The Speaker, Moustapha Cisse Lo, made the call in his opening address to the 2019 Second Ordinary Session […]

The Federal High Court, Abuja presided at, by Justice Okon Abang, yesterday, overruled the British national, James Nolan, on his application for adjournment over inability of his counsel to prepare for his defence. Justice Abang ordered the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Counsel, Ekele Iheanacho, to call his first witness.   EFCC had, on […]

Nigeria’s state-dominated oil industry is declining, afflicted by systemic corruption, starved for international investment, and hard hit by declining oil prices. When President Muhammadu Buhari signed a measure to change Nigeria’s agreements with multinational oil companies; the president touted the bill amending the Deep Offshore (and Inland Basin Production Sharing Contract) Act as a landmark […]