HUMAN rights Lawyer, Mr. Femi Falana, SAN, has pooh poohed arguments of some lawyers including Minister of State Labour and Productivity, Mr. Festus Keyamo, SAN, that  judicial commissions of inquiry set up by state governments following the ENDSARS protests were illegal and could not indict military and police officers.

The National Economic Council (NEC) presided over by Vice President Yemi Osinabjo has endorsed a memorandum on Finance Bill 2022

By Chioma Obinna *… urges states to curb community transmission The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, on Wednesday confirmed the first 3 cases of Omicron variant in Nigeria.  The Omicron variant, also known as the B.1.1.529 lineage, was confirmed in travellers from South Africa who arrived in Nigeria. In a press statement by the […]

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, on Wednesday confirmed the first case of Omicron variant in Nigeria.

A 15-year-old boy killed three fellow high school students and wounded eight other people after opening fire with a semi-automatic handgun at a Michigan high school, and was quickly arrested, police said. One of those wounded was a teacher and the rest were students at Oxford High School in Oxford, Michigan, about 40 miles (65 […]

Nigeria’s energy management and automation Schneider Electric has been named the World’s Most Sustainable Corporation in 2021 by Corporate Knights, and also recognized as a diversity leader by by the Financial Times and Statista for the third time in a row.

A Bill seeking to repeal the Customs and Excise Management Act yesterday passed for second reading in the House of Representatives

The President of UN General Assembly, Abdulla Shahid, has called for greater international solidarity to end the scourge of HIV/AIDS. Shahid told a commemorative meeting on Tuesday marking World AIDS Day – 40 years after the first cases were reported that early years of the HIV/AIDS were plagued by confusion. He said early years of […]

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has disclosed that the Federal Government expects the NNPC Limited, the successor company to the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) to be listed on the Nigerian Exchange within a year.

Air travellers to the United States (U.S.) will face tougher Coronavirus (COVID-19) testing rules as several countries moved to seal off their borders amid growing uncertainty around the virulence of the Omicron variant. The Omicron variant has the ability to dodge existing vaccines. In Asia-Pacific, Hong Kong and Japan said they would expand travel curbs, […]

GOVERNOR David Umahi of Ebonyi state, Tuesday suspended all civil servants from Effium community of Ohaukwu Local Government Area of the state.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has criticised “blunt” and “blanket” measures taken by countries in the past few days to stop the spread of the Omicron variant of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) Director-General of the WHO, Dr Tedros Ghebreyesus, said in a statement that it was “deeply concerning” that Botswana and South Africa, where the new […]

A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, yesterday,  ordered Kano State government to tender an apology to the dethroned Emir of Kano, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi II, in two national dailies, in addition to awarding him N10million as  damages against Kano state government.

Stakeholders across various strata of the society gathered in Owerri, Imo State, Tuesday, to seek end to human rights abuses, extortion and brutality by security men.

The Oyo State Government has suspended a female student of Jericho High School, Ibadan, for allegedly assaulting male peer. The state’s Commissioner for  Education, Rahman Abiodun Abdu-Raheem, made this known in a statement on Tuesday, in Ibadan. Abdu-Raheem said that the suspended student in company of her mother recently invaded the school with hefty thugs […]