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SECURITY OPERATIVES KILLED 32,000 CIVILIANS, EXTORTED N3TRN IN SOUTH EAST – REPORT A civil rights group, the International Society for Civil Rights and Rule of Law, Intersociety has released a damning report against security operatives in Nigeria. The report revealed that security forces and local vigilante groups killed over 32,300 unarmed civilians across the South-East within the past nine years. …

MOST LAWYERS’ DON’T READ JUDGEMENT BEFORE ATTACKING JUDICIARY – WOLE OLANIPEKIN Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Chief Wole Olanipekun has admonished lawyers to painstakingly read through judgments delivered by the courts before attacking the judiciary. The visiting professor of Law Practice at the Federal University,Oye-Ekiti,(FUOYE) also decried the trend where lawyers go to television and radio houses to run down …

TRANSPORT FARES, FOOD PRICES SOAR AS NIGERIANS CELEBRATE CHRISTMAS As Nigerian Christians join their counterparts across the world to celebrate this year’s Christmas, the prevailing hardship across the country is taking its toll on many families. The season comes with travelling, cooking of special delicacies, buying clothes for children, subscribing to infrastructure such as Christmas trees and other decorations, buying …

PRESIDENCY HOLDS TECHNICAL WORKSHOP, ECONOMIC REVIEW IN ABUJA In a bid to reposition the country’s economy in the upcoming, Nigeria’s presidency has to organised a very crucial technical workshop and a review of the economy in the outgoing year,. The event had in attendance policy makers, the academia, business world and technocrats. It had as the topic, “Achieving Faster Economic …

WIKE IS A GOOD MAN, I DOFF MY HAT FOR HIM – TINUBU President Bola Tinubu has commended the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, for his performance in the nation’s capital since assuming office, saying his quest to make things right was commendable. The president gave the commendation during his first presidential presidential media chat with …

I’LL REJECT ANY LAW OPPOSING NIGERIAN CONSTITUTION – GOV MAKINDE ON MOVES TO ESTABLISH SHARIAH IN OYO Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde, has reaffirmed his commitment to upholding the Nigerian Constitution, stating that it will take precedence over Shariah court amid plans by a group to establish one in the state. Speaking in a video seen by SaharaReporters on X, …

LAWYERS’ DISCIPLINARY COMMITTEE REJECTS AFE BABALOLA’S REQUEST TO DEBAR DELE FAROTIMI The Legal Practitioners Disciplinary Committee (LPDC) has dismissed a request by Chief Afe Babalola’s law firm, Emmanuel Chambers, to revoke the law practicing license of lawyer and author Tomilola Farotimi, popularly known as Dele Farotimi, over allegations of criminal defamation and professional misconduct. The petition, submitted by Ola Faro, …

I’VE NEVER LIED AGAINST ANYBODY – FAROTIMI INSISTS ON ALLEGATIONS AGAINST AFE BABALOLA Activist lawyer, Dele Farotimi, on Tuesday insisted on the allegations he made against a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN, Afe Babalola, in his controversial book, ‘Nigeria and its Criminal Justice System’. Farotimi said he has never lied against anybody in his life, stressing that whatever he said …

IFEPED FELICITATES WITH ENUGU GOVERNOR, PETER MBAH, AT CHRISTMAS The Initiative for Eradication of Poverty and Empowerment of the Disabled (IFEPED) has felicitated with the Governor of Enugu State, Dr Peter Mbah on the occasion of this year’s Christmas and New Year celebrations. In a release signed by the President of the group, Ugwu Victor Clifford, and Acting Secretary, Gab …

‘IT TOOK THE PRESIDENT 18 MONTHS TO TALK TO NIGERIANS – RUFAI OSENI FIRES TINUBU.Popular journalist, Rufai Oseni, has expressed disappointment with the submissions by President Bola Tinubu during the first presidential media chat by his administration on Monday. Though Oseni acknowledged that the chat in itself was a welcome development, he lamented that it took President Tinubu such a …