By Innocent Anaba The Wireless Application Service Providers Association of Nigeria, WASPAN, has approached the Court of Appeal to challenge the judgment of the Federal High Court in Lagos, which upheld the Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission’s, FCCPC, powers in relation to its Digital Economy and Online Non-Interest, DEON, Consumer Lending Regulations. In a […]

By Steve Oko UMUAHIA — Lead counsel to the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, Mr Aloy Ejimakor, has threatened legal action over an alleged public call for the extrajudicial killing of his client. Ejimakor, in a statement yesterday, condemned what he described as a dangerous and unlawful remark […]

By Steve Oko UMUAHIA — In a move to curb building collapse and protect lives and property, the Abia State Government has made soil and geo-technical tests compulsory for all new building approvals in Umuahia, the state capital. Commissioner for Information, Prince Okey Kanu, announced the policy while briefing journalists on the outcome of the […]

By Gift Chapi Odekina, Cynthia Alo & Kafayat Kokumo ABUJA — The House of Representatives yesterday resolved to investigate the human and economic losses suffered by Nigerians in recurring xenophobic attacks in South Africa, just as the President of the Nigerian Citizens Association in South Africa, NICASA, Mr Frank Onyekwelu, disclosed that South Africans are […]

By Dapo Akinrefon ABUJA—A Federal High Court judgment affirming the Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission’s, FCCPC, authority to regulate Nigeria’s airtime lending market, while holding that telecommunications licensing remains the responsibility of the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, has sparked fresh debate among industry stakeholders. Lawyer Ilemona Onoja said the ruling raises questions about the […]