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The Minister of Transportation, Mr Rotimi Amaechi, has asked Nigerians to contribute to the cost of treating those affected in Monday’s train attack. At least nine people were killed while many sustained injuries when bandits attacked a train heading for Kaduna from Abuja. Amaechi, who had visited the scene of the attack on Tuesday, said it would have been foiled if the procurement of the N3 billion high capacity rail track cameras and sensors was not blocked. He said the equipment would eliminate all blind spots on the train corridors across the country. Speaking when he visited the victims who…

The Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) has expressed sadness over the death of one of its members, Dr Chinelo Megafu Nwando, a member of the association, who died after sustaining gunshot injuries during the terrorists attack on the Abuja-Kaduna train on Monday. The NMA also expressed worries over situation in the country which is fast becoming a recurrent decimal, thus worsening the alarming effects of brain drain, which in many instances have been attributable to the worsening security situation in the country. In a statement by the NMA through Dr Aniekeme Uwah, the National Publicity Secretary of the association, the news…

There was a sharp disagreement yesterday between the  Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN and various non- governmental organisations over moves by the Senate to amend the Company and Allied Matters Act 2020. Both CAN and the stakeholders clashed with certain provisions  of the bill, just as the umbrella body of Christians in Nigeria  insisted that the amendments being sought in the CAMA was repressive and would infringe on the fundamental human rights of the groups’ promoters. According to the stakeholders, it is wrong to mandate the NGOs to submit their audit reports twice in a year. They spoke yesterday at…

The Federal High Court has announced the commencement of its Easter vacation. According to a statement issued on Sunday by the court’s Chief Information Officer, Catherine Christopher, the vacation will begin from April 8 till April 25. Quoting the Chief Judge, John Tsoho, Ms Christopher said the break was based on “the provisions of Order 46, Rule 4 (b) of the Federal High Court ( Civil Procedures) Rules, 2019 (as amended).” Court activities would resume on April 26, the statement stated. Vacation judges However, the court has arranged for vacation judges who will attend to emergency lawsuits, especially cases bordering…

The Honourable President of the National Industrial Court of Nigeria, His Lordship, Hon. Justice B. B. Kanyip, Ph.D, FNIALS has declared Monday, 11th April 2022 to Friday, 22nd April 2022 as Easter vacation holiday. Hon. President made the declaration pursuant to Order 58 Rule 4 (1) (b) of the NICN Civil Procedure Rules 2017 and other enabling powers. Justice Kanyip further stated that there will be no normal Court sitting during the period of the vacation and the normal Court sitting shall resume on Monday, 25th April 2022.

Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, on Sunday, accused the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, of manipulating the Federal High Court into issuing conflicting decisions on section 84(12) of the new Electoral Act 2022. Mr Falana said Mr Malami pretended not to be aware of the restraining order of the Federal High Court in Abuja barring him and others from tampering with the legal provision but vowed to implement that of the Umuahia division of the court which ordered the deletion of the clause from the law. The Senior Advocate of Nigeria, in a statement…

The Zuba High Court sitting at the Gwagwalada High Court Division, Abuja, has sentenced four men to death by hanging for armed robbery. The convicts-Tochukwu Uwalaka, Gideon Igbabo, Miracle Amaechi, and Jamil Abdulsalam, had lured the 10-year-old daughter of their victim at gunpoint to get access into his house at Kuje District in Abuja, on August 23, 2016. The suspects, thereafter, attacked the victim and his family with dangerous weapons, and carted away valuables which included a 2006 Xterra Jeep, a 2008 Toyota Camry, two HP laptops, phones, a digital camera, cash sum of N200,000, jewellery and other valuables. The…

President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of Beatrice Jedy-Agba as solicitor-general of the federation. Her appointment was contained in a statement issued on Friday by the office of the head of civil service of the federation. Prior to Beatrice’s appointment, Mohammed Umar, director of public prosecution, was acting solicitor-general following the retirement of Dayo Akpata in July 2021. Beatrice, a former executive secretary of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons and other Related Matters (NAPTIP), was also appointed as a permanent secretary alongside three other persons. The development comes weeks after 37 out of 74…

You left this ephemeral world exactly six years ago. Since then we have been missing your humorous stories about your journeys to Ngaundare, Doala, Garoua, Maroua, Tibati, all in Cameroun Republic, as well as Mambila, Gembu, Mubi, Ngurore, Gashaka, Ganye and Jada, where you married your first wife. Your stories about how your life was shaped by your uncle, the late Alhaji Mamman Dafami in Dikwa, Gulumba, Bama, and how you garnered trading experience from your brother-in-law, the late Alhaji Mallam Umara Kokari at the Maiduguri Central Market in the 1960s still resonate in our minds. You lived a loving…

Justice A.R Mohammed of the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has ordered the final forfeiture of the sum of N116 million alleged to be proceeds of crimes linked to the non- execution of constituency projects awarded to Hamza Barau and Hamshakin Ventures Ltd, funded by the Small and Medium Enterprises Development Agency of Nigeria, SMEDAN on behalf of six former federal lawmakers. Investigation by the EFCC showed that, Hamza Barau and Hamshakin Ventures Ltd actually collected a Certificate of Job Completion issued by SWEDAN and shared the project funds with the legislators, through whom the constituency projects were allotted.…