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Chairman of the Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), Professor Bolaji Owasanoye disclosed that the Agency had successfully recovered 301 houses from two public officers in the nation’s Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja. The revelation came at the inauguration of the House of Representatives Ad-hoc Committee on Investigation of the Operations of Real Estate Developers on Thursday. The ICPC chairman said that while 241 buildings were recovered from one of the suspects at different locations within the FCT, the remaining 60 were recovered on a large expanse of land at another location. Prof Owasanoye,…

The Court of Appeal, Port Harcourt Division, on Friday, dismissed a suit by the suspended national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Uche Secondus, aimed at stopping the party’s convention scheduled to hold on Saturday and Sunday. The court gave the PDP leave to proceed with the elective national convention as scheduled. The panel of three judges led by Haruna Tsammani found no merit in Mr Secondus’ appeal, saying he voluntarily relinquished his office since he did not challenge his removal at ward and local government levels. “By the result of this decision, the 6th Respondent (PDP) is empowered on…

Assistant Commissioner of Police, Simon Asamber Lough has made history by becoming the first Nigerian Police Officer to have earned the prestigious title of Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SANs. ASP Lough, an indigene of Benue State is among 72 distinguished lawyers named as SANs by the Legal Practitioners Privileges Committee for the 2021 award of the rank. Together with the judiciary, civil services and the military, the police constitute one of the key institutions of a modern state. In particular, the origins, development and role of the police have not only prevented, detected and crime, they have also…

Leading professional services firm, PwC, has questioned the recent ruling of the Tax Appeal Tribunal, TAT, ordering MultiChoice Nigeria to deposit N900billion, half of the N1.8trillion the Federal Inland Revenue Service, FIRS, said the company was owing in taxes, before the continuation of an appeal filed by the pay television service providers. In an analysis of the ruling contained in its PwC Tax Alert posted on its website on Wednesday, the firm, stated the TAT did not refer to any of the three conditions necessary for the issuance of an order to compel payment of N900billion, but focused on the…

Determination and faith in God seem to have been the guiding principle of a 91-year-old Professor of Law who was on Thursday, October 21, named among 72 lawyers who got the new Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) rank. The 91-year-old Professor of Law, Professor Ajagbe Toriola Oyewo, who is also a traditional chief in Ibadan, Oyo State, was among the 10 academics who were in the legal profession that were elevated into the prestigious rank. Of all, 72 senior lawyers were elevated to what is referreed to in the legal profession as the ‘Silk.’ The 10 academics that were named…

The families of the victims of the Eid-el-Fitri day shooting by men of the Nigerian Customs Service in Iseyin, Oyo State, have demanded N4.5 billion as compensation. The demand was contained in a petition presented to the House of Representatives Committee on Customs by Olugbenga Akinlabi on Wednesday at the hearing into the series of killings involving personnel of NCS. In the petition, Mr Akinlabi is demanding N1 billion each for the families of those who lost their lives, and N500 million for the victim who survived the attack. The families are also asking for an apology from the NCS…

A Niger State High Court sitting in Minna on Wednesday vacated its earlier order restraining Mohammed Barau Kontagora from parading himself as the 7th Sarkin Sudan of Kontagora. Justice Abdullahi Mikailu vacated the ex parte order after listening to arguments to the defendant’s counsel that the stool of the emir was not a perishable commodity and therefore, should not be left vacant. They argued that the current security situation in the country required the participation of traditional rulers in talking to their subjects on the issues of security, adding that the town should not be left without a king. Before…

Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State has called on the Federal Government to declare bandits as terrorists. He said this will enable the military to kill them without consequences in international law. The Governor made the comment after receiving the third quarter security report of the state, on Wednesday. He said in 2017, he wrote a letter to the Federal Government, seeking the declaration. According to him, his administration support the resolution by the National Assembly on the issue, adding that he will follow up with another letter of support for the government to declare the bandits as terrorists. “We,…

“There is so much injustice in this country, the police are under-paid and have not learnt any lesson from #EndSARS….” These were the last words of a Canadian-based protester, Patriot Patrick Eholor, yesterday, while speaking with journalists at the Lekki tollgate in Lagos before officers of the Rapid Response Squad (RRS) swarmed on him, removed his cap and whisked him away into a waiting Black Maria. As over 300 #EndSARS protesters await freedom from several correctional centres a year after, more youths were, yesterday, hounded into custody by the police for daring to observe a memorial of last year’s long-drawn…

Nearly 100 women Tuesday became the first female judges to join Egypt’s State Council, one of the country’s main judicial bodies. The 98 women were sworn in before the council’s chief judge, Mohammed Hossam el-Din, in a celebratory event in Cairo. The swearing-in came months after President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi asked for women to join the State Council and the Public Prosecution, the two judicial bodies that until recently were exclusively male. Hossam el-Din welcomed the new judges, saying, “They are an important addition to the State Council.” Some of the judges said they were happy that the dreams of…