IFC, Africa Fund provide N11bn loan to Diamond Bank
The International Finance Corporation, IFC and the Africa Capitalization Fund, yesterday, announced plans to provide a convertible loan facility, worth about N11.2 billion ($70 million) to Diamond Bank Plc.
MILO Basketball: Four schools through to semis
FOUR schools, Queen of the Rosary Girls College Benue, Ajigbeda Girls School Lagos, Ahmadiya College Kano and International School Lagos have qualified for the semi finals of the14th Milo Secondary School Basketball Championship holding at the Indoors Sports Hall of the National Stadium in Lagos.
London Olympic Games Notebook
The ongoing London Olympic Games have become a test of fitness for participants, including spectators, volunteers, the organisers and journalists, who have to walk long distances daily.
Excerpts from the law
Demand psychiatric evaluation of any person who drives against normal flow of traffic or fails to comply with any provisions of this law (at his own cost), if in the opinion of any officer of the authority such is necessary for the purpose of determining the person’s ability to operate a motor vehicle.
A Socio-Legal Analysis of Gani Fawehinmi’s Human Rights Praxis (4)
In Tony Momoh v. Senate and Others, he challenged, on his client’s behalf, the attempt by the then Senate of Nigeria’s National Assembly to force the editor of a national daily to reveal his sources. In Fawehinmi v. IGP and Others, he challenged the decision of the Nigerian Police Force not to launch criminal investigations against the then Governor of Lagos State, Bola Tinubu, because the interpreted the 1999 Constitution of Nigeria as having granted the governor immunity from such investigations.
