By FEMI OGUNSHOLA The report of the House of Representatives ad hoc Committee investigating the Structure and Accountability of Joint Venture (JV) Business and Production Sharing Contract (PSC) of NNPC has indicted several oil companies for alleged tax evasion. The report also said
A Chief Magistrate’s Court sitting in the Yaba area of Lagos has dismissed an application by the Nigeria Police Force seeking to arraign Afrobeats singer, Seun Kuti, over alleged assault on a police officer. Magistrate Adeola Olatunbosun adjourned till July 3 to await
A coalition of the US chapter of the National Democratic Coalition (NADECO), US Nigeria Law Group (USNLG), Africa United for Peace and select Nigerian lawyers and activists based in the USA has petitioned that country’s government, urging it to boycott the May 29,
The United States has announced the imposition of visa bans on Nigerians who had a hand in the disruption of the February 25 and March 18 general elections. By this action, it expressed the displeasure of the international community with Nigerians who participated
Fakunle Unity High School, a secondary school in Osogbo, Osun State, abruptly ended academic activities on Tuesday when some students fainted from tear gas inhalation caused by men from Mopol 39 Base, which is located immediately across the street from the school. According
Livy Uzoukwu (SAN), the lead counsel of the Presidential Standard Bearer of Labour Party (LP), has vowed to expose the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for allegedly withholding essential documents, alleging that the electoral umpire is probably trying to manipulate the documents, before
The Presidential Election Petition Court on Tuesday consolidated the three surviving petitions before it. The three petitions are by the Allied Peoples Movement (APM), the Presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Mr Peter Obi and his party, the Presidential candidate of the
The Presidential Election Petition Court has given the Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, three weeks to prove his case against the outcome of the presidential election. This was stated during a proceeding at the Court of Appeal in Abuja on Tuesday. In
– Demands FG’s probe BY EMMANUEL MGBEAHURIKE, Owerri Civil rights advocacy group, Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, (HURIWA), has carpeted the Director-General of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Yushau Dogara, for leading a campaign of calumny against the Governor-elect of Enugu
In the last minute sleaze before handover in the next six days, the outgoing Governor, Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi has directed council Chairmen to divert the sum of N5.1 billion, being a major slice of a Federal Government Special Grant recently meant for the 17