Paul Haggis who is an Oscar-winning Canadian screenwriter and film director has been detained under house arrest in southern Italy on charges of sexual assault and aggravated personal injury to some individuals who had reported him to the authorities.
Haggis on his part has completely denied the accusation, his lawyers said on Monday.
…“Mr Paul Haggis was detained on Sunday with an emergency measure issued by the Brindisi prosecutors and is now under house arrest in Ostuni.
“He will be questioned by Thursday by a judge who will have to decide whether or not to confirm the detention,” his
As the cermonies for the inaguration of the new Attorney General of the Federation is completed, the coalition of Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) under the aegis of Civil Society Group for Good Governance (CSGGG) has openly tasked the newly appointed acting Accountant General of the Federation (AGF), Anamekwe Nwabuoku, to make sure that he fights corruption within the system by conducting his duties with the highest level of transparency and accountability.
The President of CSGGG, Ogakwu Dominic gave this advice which was contained in a signed letter addressed to the acting AGF and a copy was also made available to …
In a minor rejig of the Nigerian Senate, Senator Philip Tenimu Aduda (FCT) one of the senators who had been nominated for the position has been finally named as the new Minority Leader of the Senate.
The Nigerian Senate President, Ahmad Lawan had made the announcement in a letter he read during the plenary on Tuesday.
The letter was signed by the National Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Samuel Anyanwu.
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Lawan also announced Senator Chukwuka Utazi as the Senate Minority Whip. The seat of the …
Reacting to the strike action that has spanned for so many months, the Nigerian Trade Union Congress (TUC) has made open appeals to the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to shift ground and reconsider some of their demands by making some concessions so that the Nigerian university students can return to school after being forced to stay at home since February.
Mr Monday Ogbodum who is the Chairman of the Cross River State chapter of the Union had also made the appeal on Tuesday in an interview in Calabar, the state capital.
…Ogbodum said ASUU had “clearly” made their
While reacting to the news of harsh fuel scarcity in the country, the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN) has finally given a tangible explanation as to why there is fuel scarcity in Lagos and other parts of the country.
Akin Akinrinade who is the Lagos Zonal Chairman of IPMAN had in an interview with Channels Television, insisted they were not on strike.
Akinrinade noted that the operating environment has become hostile to their businesses.
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He also insisted the marketers had not embarked on strike as speculated.
…“Members of
As the swearing in ceremony kicks off for the new batch of prospective corps members, Brigadier General Mohammed Fadah who is the Director-General of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has openly warned some corps members make sure that they avoid using social media to spread fake news in the Country.
The DG, Fadah had given the warning on Tuesday while declaring open the 2022 Batch ‘B’ Stream I Orientation Course in Asaya camp, Kogi State.
The DG, who had been represented by the Kogi State Coordinator of NYSC, …
The Government of Lagos State has put out an open warning against some of the indiscriminate excavations which are being carried out in the Magodo wetlands, while reiterating that it portends danger to lives and property.
Mr Mukaila Sanusi who is the spokesman of the Lagos State Ministry of Physical Planning and Urban Development made this statement on Tuesday.
Sanusi has opined that the Commissioner in the ministry, Dr Idris Salako, gave the warning when he visited the area on Monday.
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Salako said the action was “unwarranted, provocative and contrary to
A leaked letter which was obtained by HURIWA have shown that some of the justices of the Supreme Court of Nigeria were urged to form a trade union in response to some of their complaints of budget allocation and allowances.
The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) had earlier recalled a media leak of a letter by the justices. In the leaked letter, some of the members of Nigeria’s judiciary had expressed their concerns over their budgetary allocations that have not been increased in the last four years.
The HURIWA had also made note of the fact that some …
Kylian Mbappe has opened up on how he almost quit the France national team after receiving racist abuse following his penalty miss at Euro 2020.
The world champions were sent packing by Switzerland at the round of 16 stage last June, after Mbappe’s spot-kick was saved by Yann Sommer.
French Football Federation president, Noel Le Graet, claimed that the Paris Saint-Germain star was thinking about retiring from international football afterwards because of the lack of support he received following the crucial penalty miss.
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But Mbappe has said …
Garba Shehu, the Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity to President Muhammadu Buhari has given an update on the state of health of former military Head of State, General Abdulsalami Abubakar.
Africa Daily News, New York had reported that Abdulsalami was reportedly flown out of Nigeria for medical treatment over the weekend.
The retired Army General was said to have suffered a partial stroke.
He was first flown to a hospital in the United Kingdom (UK).
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Writing on his Twitter page on Monday, Shehu confirmed that Abubakar is …
The Federal High Court in Abuja has blocked the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) from ending voter registration on June 30, 2022.
Justice Mobolaji Olajuwon (Court 10) on Monday granted an order of interim injunction following the hearing of an argument on motion exparte by Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project.
SERAP and 185 concerned Nigerians had early this month filed the lawsuit against INEC asking the court to ‘declare unconstitutional, illegal, and incompatible with international standards the failure of the electoral body to extend the deadline for voter registration to allow eligible Nigerians to exercise their rights.’
In the …
President Muhammadu Buhari has instructed the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) to immediately begin the process of having new elections for its Executive Committee when the current administration expires in September.
President Buhari also ordered that the NFF Statutes, the country’s instrument of football governance, be revised to accommodate additional stakeholders who had previously been excluded or denied equal representation in the NFF congress.
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These directives were contained in a letter dated 17th June, 2022 addressed to Amaju Pinnick, the president of the Nigeria Football Federation and signed by …
