The Enugu State Surveyor General, Justus Chime, urges the public to adopt the Digital Survey Management System and register their properties with the Ministry of Lands and Urban Development to prevent fraud, illegal land allocations, and land encroachment in the state. Surveyor Chime made this call at a workshop organized by the Office of the Surveyor General to sensitize stakeholders, including public and private surveyors, landowners, developers, and estate agents, on the transition from analogue...

Land-grabbing, banditry, and illegal mining are said to be some of the reasons for the insecurity and communal crisis ravaging the North-Central region. The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Community Engagement (North-Central), Dr Abiodun Essiet made the disclosure while addressing State House correspondents at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. She said their engagement with the media focused on insecurity. The SA, who was flanked by her counterparts from the North-west, South-east, and South-west zones,...

The Adamawa Jail Delivery Committee (JDC), led by the state’s Chief Judge, Justice Hafsat Abdulrahman, has discharged 55 inmates after their cases were reviewed by the committee. The committee, however, convicted 32 inmates awaiting trial and granted bail to 40 others. Some of the discharged cases were based on health grounds and disproportionate sentencing, while several civil cases were reviewed and reduced. The committee conducted its routine legal operation aimed at de-congesting correctional centres across...