Afe Babalola Advocates for Extension of Retirement Age for Supreme Court Justices

A legal luminary, Chief Afe Babalola, SAN, on Wednesday proposed 100 years as retirement age for Supreme Court Justices from 70. This is contained in a statement issued by Tunde Olofintila, the Director, Corporate Information of Afe Babalola University, Ado Ekiti, (ABUAD), in Ado Ekiti on Wednesday. Babalola, founder of ABUAD, made the call at the virtual launch of books in honour of retired Justice Bode Rhodes-Vivour, CFR, of the Supreme Court to mark his...

DPR Revokes 32 Refinery Licenses As Dangote Refinery Reaches 80% Completion

The Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) has disclosed that 32 refinery project licenses issued to private investors in the country have become invalid in the past three years. According to the DPR, the numbers of valid refinery project licenses presently in the country are 23 as of March 2021, from the 44 in April 2018. Analysis of the agency’s new list of valid refinery project licenses and that of April 2018 revealed that 32 licenses...

Only Ballot Should Determine Election Winner — Jonathan

Former President Goodluck Jonathan has called for standard electoral practice in the country, saying ballot paper, not the court should determine the winner of an election. The former president stated this on Monday in an interaction with reporters during a visit to TOSTV network studios in Abuja. He noted that the electoral management bodies have the sole responsibility of returning candidates and declaring winners while the judiciary complements by either upholding declared results or nullifying...

Proposed Southeast Joint Security Network ― A Logical Reflection

“Ebubeagu must hit the ground running” ―Ebuka Onyekwelu Yesterday, the five governors of the Southeast region met at Owerri the Imo state capital and for the first time in a long while, the entire governors were present in persons. At the end of their meeting, they all agreed to form a united security front called “Ebubeagu” as a joint Southeast security formation. This is coming about four months after the IPOB’s ESN was formed, and...

South-East Governors Announces New Security Outfit, Ebube Agu

Governors of the South-East states have announced a joint security outfit for the region, codenamed Ebube Agu (Aura of the Tiger). The governors made the resolution in a communique during the first southeast security summit held in Owerri on Sunday. The communique was presented by Chief Dave Umahi, Chairman of the South East Governors’ Conference and Ebonyi Governor, The governor’s conference said the joint security outfit would have its headquarters in Enugu to coordinate the...

FG Printed N60bn to Share In March – Obaseki

Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki, has said Nigeria is in “huge financial trouble” with the way the economy is run. Obaseki lamented that Nigeria was the only country in the world where the federal, state and local governments earn salaries at the end of the month, adding that the Federal Government printed N60bn as part of federal allocation for March. Speaking at the state transition committee stakeholders’ engagement, the governor said the economy was no...

Gov. Zulum Restates Faith in One Indivisible Nigeria

IBADAN — Gov. Babangana Zulum of Borno says Nigeria will continue to be united in spite of its many challenges. Zulum said this on Saturday in Ibadan during a courtesy visit to his Oyo State counterpart, Gov. Sheyi Makinde. The governor appealed to those fomenting trouble in parts of the country to desist forthwith and allow peace to reign, adding that nobody could predict what would happen in times of crises. He called on the...

PDP Governors Call for Devolution of Powers

Members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Governor’s Forum have demanded an urgent devolution of powers and restructuring of Nigeria, saying the security situation in the country has worsened due to the incompetence of the government. The demands are contained in a communique jointly signed by the governors after the five hours of the closed-door meeting. The governors said that Nigerians were more divided along ethnic and religious lines more than ever before, lamenting that...

Religious Leaders And Politicians Were Sponsors Of Insecurity- Sheikh Khalid

A renowned Islamic scholar, Sheikh Muhammad Nuru Khalid, on Thursday, alleged that some influential people, including religious leaders and politicians, were the real sponsors of insecurity in some parts of the country. Khalid stated this in Abuja during the public presentation of a book titled, “The Infinite Light, The Pride of Humanity” authored by Sheikh Fathullah Gulen a spiritual leader of Hizmet. Khalid claimed that the bandits who were predominantly youths of northern extraction had...

Court Asks CBN to Freeze 194 Accounts of Firms, BDCs, Others

The Central Bank of Nigeria on Thursday disclosed that the Federal High Court, Abuja Division, has asked it to freeze 194 bank accounts belonging to firms and Bureaux de Change (BDCs) to enable it to conduct investigations into some suspicious activities. The apex bank disclosed this in three separate documents on its website. In one of the document, the bank stated that it got the order to freeze 60 banks accounts of Bluebeam Capital Limited...

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