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The Legal Practitioners Disciplinary Committee, LPDC, has disbarred seven lawyers and suspended 12 others over alleged involvement in various acts of professional misconduct. This took place as Amasa Firdausi, who was denied the honour seven months ago over hijab wearing classified by the legal Body classified as improper dressing was among the 1,550 new lawyers called to the Nigerian Bar on Tuesday. The young female lawyer from University of Ilorin was disallowed to perform the ceremony on December 12, 2017, after she declined to remove her hijab on the premises that doing so would amount to a violation…

Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State has reportedly escaped plot to assassinate him in the early morning of Wednesday. According to a tweet by Lere Olayinka on his Twitter handle he said that ‘Fayose is currently receiving treatment at govt house clinic after he was hit by teargas canister fired by the policemen. The armed policeme still laying siege at the Govt House. #Ekiti2018 Update Gov Fayose, a few minutes ago escaped plot to assassinate him by Fayemi and his APC. He is currently receiving treatment at govt house clinic after he was hit by teargas canister fired by the…

Black Rhino intends to invest $1.1 billion on Qua Iboe Power Plant and ExxonMobil would invest $500 million on gas project in Akwa Ibom State, Southern part of Nigeria. This followed Federal Government’s approval of $1.1billion Power Purchase Agreement, PPA, negotiated by the Nigerian Bulk Electricity Trading Plc (NBET) on October 27, last year with new investors for the siting of Qua Iboe Power Plant in Akwa Ibom. To further give a stamp of authority to the project, Akwa Ibom government and Black Rhino signed a Memorandum of Understanding, MoU, for the establishment of a transmission line and a power…

Sokoto State governor, Dr. Aminu Tambuwal, has advocated a comprehensive overhaul of the nation’s security architecture, attributing the recurring killings in most parts of the country to leadership failure. Tambuwal stated this on a day Ibrahim Shekarau, former Kano State governor, described as senseless, despicable and unjustifiable killing of innocent and defenceless Nigerians in their own country by dare devil gunmen. He noted that the growing spate of mindless shedding of innocent blood, especially of policemen and other security personnel on their lawful duty posts, had brought a new dimension to the reprehensible state of insecurity in the country.…

Against denials by the Federal Government that it was paying subsidy, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, confirmed deduction of N139.333 billion as subsidy for Premium Motor Spirit, PMS, also known as petrol, from its domestic crude oil and gas sales proceeds from January to March 2018, cutting down on its remittances to the Federation Account. Contained in the NNPC’s report of March 2017 Monthly Financial and Operations Report, the amount deducted by the NNPC for subsidy is far higher than the capital allocation to some key ministries and parastatals in the 2018 budget. Specifically, the amount the NNPC deducted…

In a landmark ruling, a Federal High Court in Abuja has directed the immediate release of two properties located in the United Kingdom, belonging to billionaire businessman and CEO of the Aiteo Group, Benedict Peters, that had been the subject of an Interim Forfeiture Order obtained by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, without notice to him. By this decision, the court has upheld his case that the properties wholly belonged to him; were unconnected to the former Petroleum Minister, Mrs Diezani Allison-Madueke, and were unjustifiably included in a list of properties the anti-graft agency tried to seize. In…

The House of Representatives on its resumption for plenary Tuesday, started the process of a bill which seeks to use the $322 million Abacha loot to fund the Ajaokuta Steel company and Railway Line. This is barely six days after the House passed a resolution urging President Muhammadu Buhari to halt ongoing plans to distribute the $322 million to 302,000 poor households in 19 states without database. The bill for an “Act to allocate the returned looted Nigerian government fund of $322 million from Switzerland for funding of Ajaokuta Steel Company and Railway line(s) projects in Nigeria and for other related matters,” was promoted by…

Christian Association of Nigerian, CAN, challenged President Muhammadu Buhari to unearth the sources of arms and ammunition of the rampaging herdsmen. CAN said the present administration will earn the respect of Nigerians only if it performed its duties by taking full control ‎of the protracted security challenges in the country. National President of CAN, Rev. Samson Ayokunle, who stated this in Ilorin, Kwara State, Tuesday, after delivering a State-of-the-Nation address at the 2018 Special Prayer Rally organised by Church Leaders and Ministers Fellowship of Nigeria in conjunction with the state’s chapter of CAN, said it was time the federal government…

President Muhammadu Buhari said, Tuesday, the opposition was blackmailing him with herdsmen and farmers clashes and asked Ekiti people to be wary of the blackmail against his person. Buhari spoke on a day Yakubu Gowon, a former Head of State, said it was unfair to blame President Buhari for the incessant killings in the conflict between farmers and herders in some parts of Nigeria. “They are blackmailing me, saying I have not done anything about the Farmers/Fulani herdsmen clashes because I am a Fulani man. “But this is a cheap blackmail. We are doing everything to curtail the situation, and…

Efforts by All Progressives Congress, APC, governors to reconcile Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State and President Muhammadu Buhari have failed, preparing ground for the governor to defect to another political party. The governor’s imminent exit got further traction at the weekend when he dissolved the state cabinet and sacked associates of his one-time political godfather, Senator George Akume. After dissolution of the cabinet, the governor, however, retained four commissioners who were not linked to Akume, a former governor of the state who wields immense political influence in the state. Ortom’s possible exit from the APC has been mostly fuelled…