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A LAW lecturer at the University of Calabar, Paschal Aboh, has been arrested for allegedly impersonating a resit student. The lecturer, who is presently in police custody, is reported to have confessed to the crime yesterday. According to sources, his accomplice was previously banned by the Council of Legal Education from resitting the Bar Final exam. But luck ran out of him, as he was caught. The suspect had earlier claimed to be a law graduate of Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago-Iwoye. However, from available records, Aboh graduated from the University of Calabar over four years ago and was recently appointed…

Sokoto State Police Command’s Public Relations Officer, ASP Sanusi Abubakar, disclosed this in a statement, yesterday, a day after two other suspects were arraigned for killing the young lady. “Prime suspects that claimed responsibility for the murder of Deborah Samuel in the viral video were declared wanted,” Abubakar said. He called on members of the public to cooperate with the police and report to the command or any security outfit in their domain if they have information on the suspects. He also assured that the Sokoto Police Command is committed to apprehending the suspects, adding: “The command has already deployed…

The former Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Babachir Lawal, has distanced himself from a voice note making the rounds on the social media purportedly inciting Christians to retaliate the recent murder of Miss Deborah Samuel and the burning of Church properties in Sokoto. He said despite his strong condemnation of the killing and burning of property, it was never in his character to incite revenge. Lawal, in a statement he personally signed on Monday, urged all his friends and family to ignore the malicious act. The statement read in part, “There is a voice note being circulated…

Governor Nasir El-Rufa’i of Kaduna State has urged people of the state to respect the religious and cultural beliefs of one another and eschew denigration in all forms. The governor stated this in a statement issued by the Commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs, Samuel Aruwan, yesterday after a review of the security situation in the country. El-rufai commended religious, traditional, and community leaders, as well as security agencies in the state for their sincere pursuit of peace. “The government appeals to parents to admonish their children and wards on the need for proper conduct and to avoid actions…

The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Police Command has shed more light on the death of Stephanie Terungwa, a female member of the National Youths Service Corps (NYSC), who was found dead days after she went missing. Terungwa and her one-year-old son were last seen in the Lokogoma area of the nation’s capital on April 14, 2022. The news of her death had sent a wave of shock across the country, with the NYSC confirming that her corpse was found in the Maitama area of Abuja. In a statement, Eddy Megwa, NYSC’s Director, Press and Public Relations, gave a chilling account…

Bandits on Tuesday evening returned to the Abuja-Kaduna highway and abducted scores of passengers in an operation that lasted almost an hour. Daily Trust gathered that the bandits blocked the highway between Kurnmin Kare and Katari in Kachia Local Government Area of Kaduna State and abducted passengers from commercial and private vehicles. The incident occurred just days after a youth corps member traveling on the highway was killed in a cross fire between bandits and security agents. Sources from Katari told Daily Trust that the incident occurred around 4pm, adding that the bandits had in the early hours of Tuesday…

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arrested and detained a former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Patricia Etteh, PREMIUM TIMES can authoritatively report. Mrs Etteh, who was Speaker between June 6, 2007, and 30 October 30, 2007, was arrested in Abuja on Tuesday by operatives of the Special Duty Unit of the anti-graft agency, those familiar with the matter said. The former lawmaker is currently being interrogated for allegedly receiving a suspicious N130 million payment from a contractor the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) awarded a solar-powered electrification project in Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria’s South-South. The said…

It is goldmine season for Nigerian lawyers; meal time, boom time, as every election season has been, but now more than ever. Every electoral process, pre, during, and after, often provides opportunities for aggrieved politicians to take their disputes to court, and over the years this has been so much the pattern that lawyers often brandish the elementary fact that election petitions are sui generis; that is they are in a special category of their own, unique, peculiar. The originating process for election cases is the filing of petitions based on the framework provided in party guidelines, the Electoral Act…

THE Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has released new rules for digital assets, providing more clarity on trading in cryptocurrencies in the country. The nation’s apex capital market regulatory body, SEC, published the guidelines ‘New Rules on Issuance, Offering Platforms and Custody of Digital Assets’ on its website, thus legalising digital assets such as cryptocurrency. The new rules cover the issuance of digital assets as securities, the registration of platforms and digital asset custodians, exchanges and virtual assets service providers. The rules apply to all platforms that support the trading, exchange, and transfer of virtual assets; all issuers and sponsors…

Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has lampooned the leadership of Nigerian Bar Association over its failure to defend the rule of law. He urged the NBA to go beyond issuing statements to taking concrete actions against attacks on the nation’s judiciary. Wike gave the charge at the book presentation in honour of Justice Mary Odili as part of activities marking her retirement from the Supreme Court and her 70th birthday, which was held in Port Harcourt on Monday. The governor regretted the NBA’s lacklustre approach to social change, which, according to him, is more of a disservice to the nation…