Month: January 2017

The Human Rights Law Service (HURILAWS) has condemned the decision by the Lagos State House of Assembly to prescribe death penalty for kidnapping, describing it as disappointing.HURILAWS said the decision is ill-conceived and will not achieve any result. “Several other […]

Asapokhai is new executive secretaryMinister suspends controversial lawThe FRC: Its powers, limitationsThe Financial Reporting Council (FRC), formerly the Nigerian Accounting Standards Board (NASB), was established in 1982 as a private sector initiative closely associated with the Institute of Chartered Accountants […]

The Federal High Court leadership has redeployed 11 judges including – Justice Mohammed Liman in Port Harcourt and Justice Okon Abang in Abuja divisions.A circular addressed to all judges of the court, announced that Justice Liman had been moved to […]

Pastor Tunde Bakare, the Convener, Save Nigeria Group (SNG), on Sunday joined other eminent Nigerians in the calls for restructuring of Nigeria’s federal system to a united nation.Bakare made the call in his “State of the Nation’’ broadcast at the […]

Magu jets out to London over ex-minister’s case•Five bank chiefs may face trialWho owns this sprawling estate in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State? The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) suspects it belongs to former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke.It […]

A Federal High Court in Lagos friday ordered the temporary forfeiture of the sum of $153,310,000, which a former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke, allegedly siphoned from the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and stashed in three banks […]

Ekiti State governor, Ayodele Fayose, may have run into fresh trouble with the Federal Government after it was found that he collected the sum of N8.877 billion from the N388.304 billion released to 35 states as refunds from over-deductions on […]

The National Industrial Court of Nigeria sitting in Lagos has ordered the reinstatement of two sacked lecturers of the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, Ogun State.The lecturers – Dr. Janet Titilayo Bamgbose and Akeem Adesina Bamigbade – both of the […]