Nigeria’s Attorney General, Abubakar Malami may be in trouble as some lawyers have launched a petition to strip him of his Senior Advocate of Nigeria(SAN) title. Malami drew the ire of certain lawyers over the amendments he made to the rules of professional conduct for legal practitioners (RPC), 2007. It was gathered that he removed the requirement of NBA stamp and seal on court processes making it possible for non-lawyers to submit court processes. In a petition published on Change.org signed by one Izu Aniagu, the AGF was accused of taking the decision ‘alone’ and acting ‘rogue’. …
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Lockdown housemate, Kiddwaya, has been evicted from the Big Brother Naija house. He was evicted during the live eviction show on Sunday night.
Big Brother Naija housemate, Prince, has been evicted from the Big Brother Naija Lockdown house.
Two communities in Ilaje Local Government Area of Ondo State have been washed away by Sea incursion. The communities are Mese which has been completely washed away and Awoye which is about to be submerged by the Ocean. It was gathered that residents of the two affected oil-rich communities have been rendered homeless following the surge from the Atlantic Ocean which has sacked the affected communities. The Chairman of Ugbo land Central Working Committee (UCWC), Ogundere Adejugbe lamented that the damages the sea incursion caused the people of the communities are devastating. He said residents of the two communities have…
SOCIO-ECONOMIC Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has filed a lawsuit against Ahmad Lawan, Nigeria’s Senate President and Femi Gbajabiamila, Speaker of House of Representatives over “their failure to publish reports of all completed public hearings and corruption probes by the National Assembly since 1999″. The organisation is equally suing the leadership of the National Assembly for their failure to disclose the number of probes that have resulted in any indictment of suspects and to name such suspects. The suit followed recent public hearings by the National Assembly on corruption allegations in ministries, departments and agencies, including the Niger Delta Development…
The federal government has thumped its chest, boasting that the assumption of power by President Muhammadu Buhari in 2015 after 16years rule by the opposition has saved the country from becoming a failed nation. Former President Olusegun Obasanjo had weekend warned that Nigeria was fast drifting to a failed and badly divided state adding that only self-deluded people would claim that all is well in the country. In a speech he delivered at a dialogue of Nigeria’s sociocultural, political organisations Obasanjo said, “economically our country is becoming a basket case and poverty capital of the world, and socially, we are firming up…
The Management of Arik Air has asked for the intervention of the Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika, over the planned industrial action by aviation unions scheduled to commence on Monday. The Chief Executive Officer of Arik, Capt. Roy Ilegbodu, made the appeal in a letter written to the minister entitled “Re-Unions in Arik Air threaten to down tools September 14th” in Lagos on Sunday. The aviation unions were the National Union of Air Transport Employees and Air Transport Senior Staff Services Association of Nigeria. The unions, on Thursday, threatened to call Arik Air workers out on a strike on Monday,…
Niger Delta Affairs Minister, Godswill Akpabio, at the weekend, inaugurated a committee to resolve the internal wrangling in the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), which he said had distracted the interventionist agency from its mandate. The committee is expected to examine the remote and immediate causes that led to the placing of some of the NDDC Staff on compulsory leave and the redeployment of others. Inaugurating the committee, the Minister, restated the commitment of the Ministry to revamp NDDC, adding “for the Niger Delta region to progress and develop, the NDDC must be rightly positioned both administratively and otherwise to…
Chairman of the Zenith Labour Party (ZLP) in Ese-Odo local government, Prince Newton Olomu and four ward chairmen have defected to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). Governorship candidate of the ZLP and Deputy Governor Hon Agboola Ajayi hails from Ese-Odo. Others that defected include former Deputy Chairman of ZLP, Engr. Abayomi Adebayo; State ex officio member, Rotimi Bowei; Vice chairman Festus Gbasinghan; Local govt youth leader, Success Digha, Eliphus Ibakedein, Joseph Omomo, Victoria Peretei and Ipiteigha Tam among others. The defectors were received into the APC by Ondo chairman, Engr. Ade Adetimehin at a campaign rally of the party…
The Federal Government will soon phase out high concentration of alcohol in sachet and small Polyethylene Terephthalate and glass bottles in the country. Director-General of the National Agency for Foods and Drugs Administration and Control, Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye indicated this in a statement over the weekend. She said: “NAFDAC under the auspices of the Federal Ministry of Health, once again, wishes to bring to the attention of the general public, concerns relating to the sale and consumption of alcoholic beverages in sachets, small volume glass and PET bottles. “These concerns relate to negative effects of irresponsible alcohol consumption on public…