November 2021

Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo has said Nigeria needs to adopt value addition practices in order to create wealth that will accelerate economic recovery post-COVID-19 and Osinbajo also assured the business community of the Federal Government’s unrelenting efforts to restore the country to a path of economic growth that will help to create a number of good-paying jobs.

The Vice-President said in Lagos on Friday that the target was to make the growth rate higher than the population growth rate.

He gave the assurance at the 2021 Presidential Policy Dialogue organised by the Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) and explained …

Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed vowed Friday to “bury the enemy” in his first message from the battlefront, state media said, after he announced plans to lead a counter-offensive against Tigrayan rebels.

As the rebels report major territorial gains, claiming this week to have seized a town just 220 kilometres (135 miles) from Addis Ababa, international alarm over the escalating conflict has deepened, with foreign countries urging their citizens to leave.

State media reported Wednesday that Abiy, a former radio operator in the military who rose to the rank of lieutenant-colonel, had arrived at the front line to lead a …

The Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, SAN, has said the Federal Government’s determination to crush banditry remains unwavering now that the Court has granted application filed by his Office declaring bandits groups as terrorist organisations.

Malami, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria made the boast in a statement issued on Friday in Abuja by his Special Assistant on Media and Public Relations, Umar Jibrilu Gwandu.

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According to the statement, the declaration is a demonstration of the determination of the office of the Attorney-General …

Malam Garba Shehu, the Senior Special Assistant to President Muhammad Buhari on Media and Publicity, said the president deserves credit for tackling insecurity, especially Boko Haram and farmer/herder crisis.

Shehu made this claim on Friday while presenting a paper, tagged ‘Fake news: Challenges of information management’, at the 10th anniversary of the Federal University Dutsin-Ma (FUDMA), in Katsina State.

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“It is a fact that the Buhari administration is the only government of Nigeria that has put forward a workable solution to the herder-farmer challenge in all the years since independence.

Abubakar Malami, the attorney-general of the federation (AGF), has denied any involvement with the recent action of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) against Willie Obiano, governor of Anambra state.

The EFCC, in a letter dated November 15 and addressed to the comptroller-general of the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS), had asked to be informed whenever Obiano is seen attempting to travel out of the country.

Reacting to the development, Don Adinuba, the state commissioner for information, in a statement earlier on Thursday, said claimed that Malami was responsible for EFCC’s action.

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A former chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Attahiru Jega, has said there is a need for the country to embark on short-term restructuring before the general elections in 2023 to address some of the challenges facing the nation.

Jega made this assertion at the 2021 public lecture he delivered at the Achievers University, Owo, Ondo State on Tuesday evening. The lecture was titled, ‘Towards stabilizing the Nigerian federation’. 

According to him, there seem to be lack of the political will on the part of those who are at the helm of affairs in …

Popular human rights lawyer and Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Mr Femi Falana (SAN), has given reasons why he believes that the Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, cannot reject the report of the judicial panel on police brutality.

In a speech delivered on Thursday when some leaders of the Committee for the Defence of Human Rights visited him in Lagos, Falana said, ‘Pursuant to the Tribunals of Inquiry Law, Laws of Lagos State, 2015, the Justice Doris Okuwobi Commission of Enquiry was instituted by the Governor of Lagos State, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu, last year to probe allegations of police brutality …