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The Nigerian Senate, on Thursday, expressed concern over the low number of bills passed into law in recent years. Senate leadership acknowledged that the number of bills enacted may not be the only measure of legislative performance. The Senate said members in the past year submitted around 477 bills and 25 of them were passed into law. It is said …

The Delta State High Court, sitting in Asaba, has sentenced Inspector Ubi Ebri of the Delta State Police Command to death for murder. The court presided over by Justice CD Diai on Tuesday convicted and sentenced Ebiri to death for killing a phone dealer, Onyeka Ibeh, in AsabaIbeh, a popular phone dealer from Asaba, was shot dead on April 5 …

39 year old man, Guy Mukendi, was sentenced to four years and three months in prison for allegedly removing a condom while having sex with a woman. According to the UK Guardian, Mukendi, from Brixton, was sentenced on Thursday at Inner London Crown Court for the ‘rape’ of the woman last year in a rare conviction for ‘concealment’, by removing …

  As early as December 29, 1987 ( 37 years ago ) Professor Mike Ozekhome, SAN, CON, OFR, had already addressed the Federal Government of Nigeria on behalf of the Nigerian masses over the issue of elimination of subsidies on petroleum products. Ozekhome had sued the then military dictator, President Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida, joining the then Ahmed Forces Ruling Council …

The Nigerian military has reportedly killed a terrorist, Buharin Yadi, who is said to be one of the deadliest bandit leaders to terrorize North Korea in the past decade. News of his killing was greeted with joy among the Kaduna-Katsina border communities. The Comptroller, Ministry of Internal Security and Home Affairs in Kaduna State, Samuel Aruwan said on Thursday that …

US President Joe Biden and Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu The White House maintained Tuesday that it did not believe Israeli forces should reoccupy Gaza following Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu comments that the country would have the “overall security responsibility” in Gaza for an “indefinite period” after the war ends. “The president still believes that a reoccupation of Gaza …

The Minister of Interior, Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, on Thursday, gave the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) two weeks to clear the backlog of over 200,000 passport applications before the agency. The minister gave the order during a meeting with the Acting Comptroller-General of NIS, Caroline Adepoju, in Abuja. The Managing Director of Iris Smart Technologies, Mr. Yinka Fisher, was also at the …

The former Head of State, Gen. Yakubu Gowon, has dismissed rumours of his death. A rumour on the elder statesman’s death emerged on Monday evening. The former Nigerian leader dismissed the rumour in a terse statement issued on Monday night by his personal aide, Adeleye Ajayi. The statement read: He is still around and well. “General Gowon is not in …

The Federal Government says it has put plans in place to begin the evacuation of Nigerian refuge in neighbouring Cameroon, Chad, and the Niger Republic. Federal Commissioner of the National Commission for Refugees, Migrants, and Internally Displaced Persons (NCFRMI), Alhaji Ahmed Tijjani, who disclosed this on Thursday after a meeting with Governor Babagana Zulum of Borno State in Maiduguri, said …

Nine ward Chairmen of the New Nigerian People’s Party, (NNPP) in Kaduna on Thursday defected to Labour Party, (LP) with thousands of their supporters. The Chairmen defected with no fewer than 700 supporters from Kujama, Narayi, Sabon-Tasha, Kakau, sabon-Gari Rido, Nasarawa, Gwagwada and Yelwa wards. Receiving the defectors at his constituency office in Sabo, Kaduna, Member representing, Kajuru/Chikun Federal Constituency, …