Nigerians and other Commonwealth citizens will benefit from improved people-centred access to justice after law ministers from Commonwealth counties agreed on a package of new measures and pledges. A press statement by the Commonwealth on Wednesday read that: “Millions of Commonwealth citizens will benefit from improved people-centred access to justice as law ministers concluded their meeting in Zanzibar yesterday with a package of new measures and pledges.” The statement added that the package was shaped by four-day deliberations among ministers, with input from diverse stakeholders, including people with disabilities, civil society representatives and leading innovators in the legal sector. The…
Author: Khadijah Olowode
By Chukwudi Enekwechi Between the end of February and beginning of March 2024, President Bola Tinubu was billed to embark on a trade and investment trip to Qatar, but lo and behold hell was let loose as some naysayers opined that the trip would no longer hold as the Qatari emirate/government had declined the invitation. This negative narrative was gaining traction in the media space until the federal government debunked the storyline, and reassured Nigerians that the President was still on his way to the Middle East country. The government was ultimately proved right as President Tinubu, along with his…
Intruders believed to be herdsmen In a shocking incident on Mother’s Day night, raided the ranch owned by Michael Ayokunle Otedola, brother of billionaire businessman, Femi Otedola, located in Epe, Lagos State. According to reports,the assailants managed to break into the ranch undetected through the backlot brick fence, leading to the theft of 18 cows belonging to Michael Otedola. The raid, which occurred late on Sunday night, left the Otedola family and ranch workers in disbelief and outrage. The herdsmen, it was gathered stormed the ranch under the cover of darkness, swiftly rounding up the cows before making a swift…
By Abimbola Ogunnaike with agency report The United Nation has disclosed that the number of children who died before their fifth birthday has reached a historic low, dropping to 4.9 million in 2022. This was contained in the latest report by the United Nations Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation released on Wednesday, 13 March 2024. The UN IGME is led by the United Nations Children’s Fund and includes the World Health Organisation, the World Bank Group, and the Population Division of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs. The report revealed that more children are surviving today…
President Bola Tinubu has directed the opening of Nigeria’s land and air borders with the Republic of Niger and the lifting of other sanctions against the country with immediate effect. This directive is in compliance with the decisions of the ECOWAS Authority of Heads of State and Government at its extraordinary summit on February 24, 2024, in Abuja. ECOWAS leaders had agreed to lift economic sanctions against the Republic of Niger, Mali, Burkina Faso, and Guinea. The President has directed that the following sanctions imposed on the Republic of Niger be lifted immediately: (1) Closure of land and air borders…
The First Lady of Nigeria, Senator Oluremi Tinubu has reiterated the fact that no girl deserves to be left behind in getting educated as a result of mistakes or errors of their past. Senator Oluremi Tinubu while speaking at the commissioning of the newly built Alternative High School for Girls in Bauchi State, stated further that such girls should rather be given opportunity to realise their dreams in via acquisition of education. She was of the opinion that though girls may drop out of school due to early marriage, pregnancy, lack of financial support, trafficking among others, the Alternative High…
By Abimbola Ogunnaike A seventh prosecution witness has told Justice Hamza Muazu of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, High Court, Abuja, how a former governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele Emefiele allegedly signed and approved award and payments of contracts to family, friends. The witness told the court on Monday, 11 March, 2024 how Emefiele allegedly signed and approved award and payments of contracts to April 1616 Investment Limited and Architekon Nigeria Limited, companies that allegedly belong to Sa’adatu Ramalan Yero, his wife, Margaret Emefiele and his in-law respectively. The witness, Agboro Michael, an investigator with the…
A member of the Northern Senators Forum (NSF) and chairman of the Senate Services Committee, Senator Sunday Steve Karimi has told Senator Abdul Ningi to at least fear God and say the truth, even as he is not afraid of suspension. Karimi, gave the advice while responding to Senator Abdul Ningi’s press conference on Monday where he denied saying there were two budgets in operation but insisted that N3.7trillion in the 2024 budget was not tied to any item. Challenging Senator Ningi to own up to his misinformation, Senator Karimi said the Bauchi senator spoke on behalf of the Northern…
By Felix Oboagwina When Mrs. Funke Olakunrin, daughter of then Afenifere Leader, Pa Reuben Fasoranti, was killed by suspected Fulani terrorists masquerading as herdsmen around Ore, Ondo State, in July 2019, Tinubu turned up at the home of the bereaved Elderly Statesman in Akure, the capital. As Tinubu made to leave the old man’s residence, journalists surrounded him and asked his opinion about the Fulani herdsmen as a growing security threat. Offhandedly, the former Lagos State Governor responded: “Where are the cows?” It would have been a valid question except for its tragic naivety or patronising sarcasm. Although violence by…
By Abimbola Ogunnaike Gunmen, suspected to be kidnappers, on Sunday, 10 March, 2024 killed a yet to be identified man, who was travelling with his family within Eke-Egede-Affa Road in Udi Local Government Area of Enugu State. An eyewitness, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said that the armed hoodlums attacked the family and killed the man on the spot., just as they also abducted his wife and daughter. The incident reportedly happened at about 3:30 pm on Sunday, March 10. Confirming the incident, the Spokesman of Police Command in Enugu State, DSP Daniel Ndukwe, added that a manhunt for the armed…