Reactions have continued to trail the introduction of oath of secrecy by National Human Rights Commission, NHRC, with some lawyers, describing the development as ridiculous,  absurd and baseless in law.

ABA—Abia State government has said it will scrutinise any request for land above five hectares from Federal Government no matter the purpose specified, and gave a traditional ruler seven days to apologise over a RUGA land rumour or face legal action.

CALLS for the rebirth of the defunct Republic of Biafra have been increasingly heard on the streets of Nigeria in recent times. Following the reunification of Nigeria and Biafra in 1970, the world looked forward to a new Nigeria without the ethnic-tinged political injustices that had alienated one of the most important ethnicities in Nigeria – the Igbos and their near-kins- to the point of seeking a country of their own by force in 1967.

ASABA—ALL Progressives Congress, APC, in Delta State and its governorship candidate for the March 9, 2019 election, Chief Great Ogboru, yesterday, closed their case, presenting 5,375,672 documented evidence at the state governorship Election Petitions Tribunal sitting in Asaba.

John-Mary Uzuegbunam, 26, is a Nigerian-Cameronian striker plying his trade with Shenzhen FC in the Chinese Super League. Married to Serbian, Adrijana Ajdukovi, Uzuegbunam, the Onitsha-born footballer started his amateur footballing career in eastern Nigeria before moving to Cameroon, where he played at the Cameroonian professional league. Uzuegbunam moved to Buriram United in Thailand in […]

ON July 25, 2019, the remains of Mrs Obianuju Ndubuisi-Chukwu will be interred in her hometown, Ihiala, Anambra State. And that may be the end of the story. But it shouldn’t be if Nigeria is, indeed, desirous of being accorded the respect due to sovereign states with gravitas.

ARGUABLY, mobile phones have become a necessity for mankind. In today’s technological world, it may be hard to imagine life without mobile phones. While the device comes with innumerable benefits to the user, it also has disadvantages which might not be known to the user. Most people sleep with their phones beside or under their pillows and others keep their phones at arm’s length when in bed.

Mr Osaheni Uzamere, a pioneering journalist with the Nigerian Observer in 1968, became famous when barely seven years old at the bar, defended the armed robbery kingpin, Lawrence Anini (aka the Law), who terrorised the defunct Bendel State in 1987 before the late Justice Omo-Agege military tribunal.

THE Senate insisted, yesterday, that investigation of Senator Elisha Abbo (PDP, Adamawa North), who allegedly slapped a nursing mother repeatedly at a sex toy shop in Abuja, must continue, despite a court order on the matter.

ON Tuesday, July 9, 2019, the Islamic Movement in Nigeria, IMN (the Shi’ites), reportedly crossed the “red line” even by their own usually peaceful and orderly manner of protesting when they invaded the National Assembly Complex in Abuja and attacked security men on duty.

PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari is insouciant about the process of government, the art and mechanics of governance. Otherwise, how else would one explain his lackadaisical approach to ministerial appointments and his aberrant views about the role of ministers? As everyone knows, Buhari spent the first six months of his first presidential term without a cabinet, without ministers! Now, déjà vu, he is nearly three months into his second term and still hasn’t named his ministers; instead, he is saying to Nigerians: “Give me more time”! But what is it about ministers that President Buhari always struggles to appoint them?

Nnewi—The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, yesterday, said it is not interested in either the gains or the losses associated with RUGA settlement being planned by the Federal Government, but only in achieving the sovereign state of Biafra.

ABUJA—THE Senate, yesterday, confirmed Justice  Tanko  Muhammad as substantive Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, with the CJN saying the judiciary was corrupt and should be treated like other corrupt elements.

ABUJA—The Presidential Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Abuja has summoned the Chairman of Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Professor Mahmood Yakubu, and Resident Electoral Commissioner, REC, in Zamfara State to appear before it today.