February 2021

A senior advocate of Nigeria and human rights lawyer, Mike Ozekhome, on Thursday, described President Muhammadu Buhari’s act of extending the tenure of Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu as ‘unconstitutional’.

Ozekhome, while reacting to the extension when he appeared on Channels Television’s programme: ‘Politics Today’, monitored by our correspondent, said the President was wrong to have extended the IGP’s tenure considering what the new Police Act stipulates.

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He said: ‘The President was wrong, the President was wrong and the President was wrong to have purportedly extended the …

Voting technology maker Smartmatic on Thursday slammed a $2.7 billion defamation suit against three Fox News hosts and Donald Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani for promoting false claims that the company was involved in fraud in the November presidential election.

The complaint filed in New York State Court names the Rupert Murdoch-owned Fox Corp., the Fox News Network, and Fox hosts Maria Bartiromo, Lou Dobbs, and Jeanine Pirro as defendants.

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Also named in the suit are former New York mayor Giuliani, the ex-president’s personal lawyer, and Sidney Powell, a lawyer for the …

Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike has gone hard on Nigeria’s ruling party, the APC, saying Nigerians will massively kick the party out of office in the 2023 election because Nigerians are not happy with the APC government due to their all-round woeful performance and that the mistake of voting them into power will be corrected by voting PDP in the upcoming 2023 general elections.

Wike who was in Yola Thursday, to inspect some on-going key projects initiated by the Fintiri lead PDP government in the state, insisted that, fighting corruption in the country depended on the party in power and …

Several Tunisians mostly youths have taken to social media to demand changes to the law after the court in the northern city of Kef issued a sentence prescribing heavy sentence for cannabis use last month.

A fourth man, arrested when he got back to his car, was sentenced to five years in jail but has not been imprisoned, according to the lawyer for the group, Molka Bouderbala.

She said the four — among them one employee and two small business owners, all aged in their 30s — had shared a joint in a disused locker room after a football match …

The President of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari, on Thursday, approved the extension of the tenure of Mr. Mohammed Adamu as the Inspector General of Police (IG) by three months.

Mr. Osaigbovo Ehisienmen, the Press Secretary to the Minister of Police Affairs, Alhaji Mohammed Dingyadi confirmed the approval in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja.

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He said the extension was to give room for the proper selection process of a successor.

Adamu, the 20th indigenous I-G was appointed on Jan. 15, 2019, by President Muhammad Buhari.…

The president of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari has nominated immediate past service chiefs of the country as ambassadors in a move that has sparked controversies across the country.

Presidential aide Bashir Ahmad who made the disclosure in a tweet on Thursday said; ‘President Muhammadu Buhari has forwarded the names of the immediate past Service Chiefs to the Senate as non-career Ambassadors-Designate’.

The ambassador-designates are retired Defense Chief Abayomi Olonisakin, former Army Chief Tukur Buratai, former Navy Chief Ibok-Ete Ekwe Ibas, and former Air Chief Sadique Abubakar. Their nomination is …

The frosty relationship between Kogi and Nigeria Centre for Disease Control/ Presidential Task Force, PTF on COVID-19 is getting worse with the state government now threatening to drag the federal government’s body to court.

Kingsley Fanwo, Kogi Commissioner for Information and Communication  declared the intention of the state government to sue PTF-COVID-19 in Lokoja on Wednesday over what he described as an attempt to de-market the state and inflict the citizens with fear.

The State Government accused PTF-COVID-19 of failing in an earlier effort to import Covid-19 into Kogi and as such, has now resorted into creating panic.

Fanwo was …