SERAP challenges ₦100m DSS defamation award at appeal court
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged the Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja to set aside the judgment of the Federal Capital Territory High Court awarding ₦100 million in damages against SERAP in a defamation suit brought by two officers of Nigeria’s State Security Service (SSS). The appeal is scheduled for hearing […]
FG releases 8-month consolidated allowance to non-academic staff
…moves to avert fresh crisis in tertiary institutions By Joseph Erunke, Abuja The Federal Government has released eight months’ arrears of the Consolidated Non-Academic Staff Tertiary Institutions Allowance, CONTA, to non-academic workers in federal universities, polytechnics and colleges of education, in a move aimed at strengthening industrial harmony and preventing disruptions in the nation’s tertiary […]
66 years on, Nigeria must escape the fragility trap, by Olu Fasan
How fragile is Nigeria? That is one question Nigerian leaders don’t want to confront. Indeed, it irks them when anyone says that Nigeria is a fragile state. What’s more, some Nigerians, out of sheer romantic or sentimental patriotism hate it when the word “fragility” is used to describe Nigeria. It is unpatriotic, they reckon, for […]
2027 election cases: Your conduct will be monitored, CJN warns tribunal judges
Ahead of the 2027 general elections, the Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Justice Kudirat Kekere-Ekun, yesterday warned that judges appointed to election tribunals would be closely monitored.
Killings: Drop your ambition now, northern Islamic clerics tell Tinubu
No fewer than 1,000 northern Islamic clerics have told President Bola Tinubu to drop his 2027 re-election ambition, citing killings, kidnappings and acts of terrorism across the country, particularly in the North-West.
Let church messages promote nation building, ex-Imo lawmaker urges
By Emmanuel Iheaka A former member of the Imo State House of Assembly, Hon. Pascal Okolie, has urged churches to focus their messages on values that promote nation building. Okolie made the call during the celebration of the 60th anniversary of House of Prayer International Covenant Church (HPICC) at the church headquarters in Orlu, Imo […]
