Moyosore Onigbanjo, attorney-general and commissioner for justice in Lagos, says many “contradictions” in the report of the state’s judicial panel on police brutality make the findings unreliable. The Lagos government, On Tuesday, released the white paper on the report submitted by the judicial panel set up to probe cases of police brutality in the state. The panel…
Unlike previous struggles between Nigeria and the fuel subsidy conundrum, this time, it is a fight to finish. No ambiguity. No fence to sit on. It has taken Nigeria several decades and deadly battles to arrive at this decisive moment over the subsidy issue. In the past, every time a Nigerian political leadership, whether military…
A federal high court in Abuja has dismissed a suit challenging the qualification of Chukwuma Soludo as a candidate in the November 6 Anambra state governorship election. In the suit marked FHC/ABJ/CS/711/2021, Adindu Valentine and Egwudike Chukwuebuk, the plaintiffs, had alleged that Soludo provided false information in the affidavit (Form EC9) that he submitted to…
On this year’s World AIDS Day, the World Health Organisation, WHO, has disclosed that a total of 460,000 people were killed by AIDS. This means that a shocking 1,300 people died every day in Africa despite free access to effective treatment in the region. The world health body also noted that two out of every three…
Akinwumi Adesina, president of the African Development Bank (AfDB), says the federal government must exercise restraint in tax increment. He said that the fact that the country’s tax to gross domestic product (GDP) ratio at 6.1 percent remained relatively low was not an excuse for incessant tax increase. The AfDB boss said this on Tuesday…
The Policy document containing 17 articles was championed and launched by the Nigerian Bar Association Women Forum in support of the Nigerian Bar Association, at the recently completed 61st Nigerian Bar Association Annual General Conference, held on October 27, 2021, at Elekahia, Port-Harcourt, Rivers State. It commenced with a preamble written by the NBA President,…
President Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa is currently in Nigeria’s seat of power. Ramaphosa arrived Nigeria on Wednesday morning and headed to Aso Rock where he was welcomed by President Muhammadu Buhari. The visit comes at a time when many countries are shutting their doors to South Africa over the Omicron variant of COVID-19. South…
The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development and the Cocoa Farmers Association of Nigeria on Tuesday in Abuja held the Nigeria Cocoa Summit to address the challenges confronting the industry. The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Mahmood Abubakar, said Nigeria now lagged behind Cote d’ Ivoire, Ghana and Indonesia in cocoa production. Represented by…
Equity investors recorded N641 billion gains at the end of the November trading period yesterday, as sentiment shifted to equities following low returns in the Fixed Income (FI) market segment. Analysis of trading statistics for the month shows that the market capitalisation of listed equities rose to N22.579 trillion from N21.938 trillion at the beginning of…
