The National Judicial Council, NJC, yesterday, sacked three judges found to have abused their office by accepting gratifications from litigants before their courts. The Justices the legal body under the Chairmanship of the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Mahmud Mohammed, suspended from office with immediate effect were the Presiding Justice of the Court of Appeal Ilorin Division, Justice Mohammed Ladan Tsamiya, Chief Judge of Enugu State, Justice I. A. Umezulike and Justice Kabiru M. Auta of the High Court of Justice, Kano State.

So it’s 56 years since independence. Who knows where they imagined we would be? Yes, Hebert Macaulay and co-dreamers. Perhaps in the neighbourhood of Indonesia. Fate can be treacherous and life cruel, but many disasters are self inflicted.

MEMBERS of the House of Representatives, led by the Speaker, Hon. Yakubu Dogara,yesterday, asked the Federal High Court in Abuja to hands-off a suit the erstwhile Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Appropriation, Jibrin Abdulmumin lodged against them.

Neymar is to sue a Brazilian court for leaking information to local media regarding his tax evasion case, it is reported.

AS Nigeria marks its 56th independence anniversary today, Senate President, Bukola Saraki, has called on Nigerians from all walks of life to collaborate with the Federal Government to ensure the nation emerged from the current economic recession stronger, more united, developed and self reliant.

You probably know by now that all scientific polls showed that Hillary Clinton ate Donald Trump for dinner during Monday night’s first U.S. presidential debate. Hillary’s superior performance over Trump was so glaring that even Trump’s advisers and some surrogates conceded that he didn’t do as well as he should have done.

Players, experts and stakeholders in the aviation sector have said the current state of the country’s airports can only be improved if some of them are concessioned to private investors. The stakeholders made their views known while reviewing the state of Nigeria aviation in the last 56 years in a conference on Privatisation and Concession of Airports organised by Check In Nigeria, an industry resource and consultancy outfit.

May 29 1966: Massive rioting started in the major towns of Northern Nigeria against the Igbo minority in the North and nearly 30,000 people were killed.

The moment the British went away, the army stepped in and pushed the politicians out of power. That was the starting point because I was in the cabinet when the first coup took place. I was the Minster of Education then. I remember when Aguiyi Ironsi came to meet us in the cabinet. It was extraordinary. Never had it happened in the history of the country that the army would come to the cabinet meeting.

•Says Nigeria’s democracy is now endangered under a partisan cloud By Emmanuel Aziken, Political Editor The People’s Democratic Party, PDP has faulted President Muh-ammadu Buhari for quickly congratulating Mr. Godwin Obaseki on his declaration as winner of the Edo State governorship election, saying it is a reversal of his Inauguration Day declaration not to be […]