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The Imo State government has forbidden traditional rulers from speaking English or any other foreign language at public functions or in their palaces while conducting affairs of their communities. Governor Rochas Okorocha, who gave the directive, said the monarchs could use interpreters, if the need arises. Okorocha spoke while handing over letters of recognition and staff of office to 19 …

The Supreme Court will today wednesday 12th July, deliver judgment on the appeal by the Ahmed Makarfi-led Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) challenging the decision of the Court of Appeal which recognised Ali Modu Sheriff as the authentic chairman of the party. The Makarfi group has already sent notice out to its loyalists encouraging them to come to the court in …

The Acting President, Yemi Osinbajo, on Tuesday left Nigeria for London, United Kingdom, where he is scheduled to meet ailing President Muhammadu Buhari. Buhari left the country on May 7 for the British capital where he is currently receiving medical treatment. He had, in a communication to the two chambers of the National Assembly indicated that only his doctors would …

The House of Representatives on Tuesday waded into the controversial introduction of National Values/Civic Education in school curriculum, which requires children to be taught Islamic Religious Knowledge and Christian Religious Knowledge as compulsory subjects, irrespective of their religious beliefs. In the previous order, IRK and CRK were taught as independent subjects, leaving Christian students with the choice of taking CRK …

By Alltimepost.com Nairobi – Authorities in Somaliland should immediately release TV journalist Omar Ali Hassan Serbiya, the Committee to Protect Journalists said yesterday. Security officers arrested Omar when he arrived at Hargeisa on July 8, the administrative capital of the semi-autonomous republic, his employer told CPJ. The journalist was on his way to visit his family in Somaliland on holiday …

By Alltimepost.com A Johannesburg High Court order forbidding a political organization from gathering outside the home of journalists who have reported on corruption, threatening them, or inciting others to harm them is a welcome victory for press freedom, the Committee to Protect Journalists has said. The July 7, 2017 court order came in response to a petition from the South …

By Alltimepost.com Nairobi – Authorities in Puntland should immediately release journalist Ahmed Ali Kilwe, the Committee to Protect Journalists has demanded. Security forces in Garowe, the administrative capital of the semi-autonomous region of Somalia, have detained Ahmed, the founder of the news website Puntlandone.com, since July 2, according to media reports. Media reports and three journalists covering Puntland who spoke …

The candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the 2016 governorship election in Edo, Osagie Ize-Iyamu, has congratulated the state governor, Godwin Obaseki, on his victory at the Supreme Court on Monday. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that Mr. Ize-Iyamu congratulated Mr. Obaseki in a statement personally signed by him. He said, “Today, the Supreme Court has by …

The Supreme Court, on Monday, upheld the election victory of Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State. In an unanimous judgment, a seven-man panel of Justices of the apex court headed by the Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Justice Walter Onnoghen, dismissed appeal that was lodged by gubernatorial candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the September 28, 2016 governorship …

Despite assertions of seeming belligerence, Acting President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, was, yesterday, reaching out to the leadership of the National Assembly towards averting imminent paralysis of the machinery of government. As part of the moves, the acting president was last night scheduled to meet with the president of the Senate, Dr Bukola Saraki, and Speaker of the House of Representatives, …