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By Okhide Em’ya David Benin City, Nigeria – Edo State Police Command has paraded one Dr. Abass Adebowale Adeyemi over the alleged murder of a cab driver, Emmanuel Yobo Agbovinuere, (39), in Benin City, the Edo State capital. The suspect, who is a medical doctor, hails from Offa local government of Kwara state was alleged to have killed the victim …

By Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku Abuja – Nigeria Bar Association (NBA) President, Yakubu Chonoko Maikyau (SAN), has inaugurated a fifteen-person committee to investigate the incident that occurred over the distribution of conference materials at the just-concluded 62nd Annual General Conference of the legal body in Lagos State. The inauguration held in the course of a virtual meeting held with members of …

Many Nigerian students studying in Ukraine have been shut out from schools because of the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war. The Igbinedion University, Okada, Edo State, said it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with two Ukrainian universities to absorb students displaced by the ongoing conflict with Russia. The Vice-Chancellor of the university, Lawrence Ezemonye, disclosed this in Okada on Tuesday in his welcome …

There has been a heavy deployment of security and intelligence personnel at the Buhari House national secretariat of the ruling All Progressives Congress APC following the expected visit of the party’s presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu and his running mate, Senator Kashim Shettima to the secretariat. Both men are scheduled to meet with the Senator Abdullahi Adamu-led National Working …

Mr Mamu was arrested on Tuesday and detained by Interpol at the Cairo International Airport, while awaiting a connecting flight to Saudi Arabia. The spokesperson for the Kaduna-based cleric, Ahmad Gumi, Tukur Mamu, was arrested in Egypt Tuesday. He was arrested and detained by Interpol at the Cairo International Airport while awaiting a connecting flight to Saudi Arabia. Mr Mamu, …

An estimated three million Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) would participate in the 2023 general elections, the Independent National Electoral Commission has said.  The INEC Chairman , Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, stated this in Abuja at a stakeholders’ meeting on the 2022 Revised Framework and Regulations for Voting by IDPs. He noted that the revised framework had taken into consideration several developments …

The United Kingdom’s Prime Minister, Liz Truss, has appointed British-Nigerian Member of Parliament, Kemi Badenoch as a member of her cabinet on Tuesday. Recall that Badenoch vied to be British PM as a member of the Conservative Party and made it to the top five in July.  However, in a post on the verified Twitter page of the UK Prime …

The Director General/CEO National Information Technology Development Agency, NITDA, Mr Kashifu Abdullahi, on Tuesday, said despite numerous challenges bedeviling the country, Nigeria remains a major global supplier of tech talents. This is coming as a United States, U.S. based tech giant, Google, unveiled 60 Africa Startups grantees of its second cohort Black Founders Fund, BFF, initiative. Abdullahi who spoke at …

Activist and lawyer, Mr. Femi Falana, SAN, has dragged President Muhammadu Buhari, the National Assembly and Controller General of Prisons before a Federal High Court, sitting in Lagos, for failing to provide monitoring devices, close circuit television, CCTV, and other instruments of restraint at the Kuje Prison, Abuja, which was attacked by insurgents in July, and freed over 600 inmates, …

The new United Kingdom’s Prime Minister, Liz Truss has delivered his first speech outside 10 Downing Street as unveiling her programme for the British. Following her meeting with the Queen of England, Elizabeth II in Balmoral earlier in the day, the Truss arrived at Downing Street on Tuesday evening and immediately delivered her first epoch speech. The PM’s convoy arrived …