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The Speaker of the House of Representatives Femi Gbajabiamila has insisted that the resolution to investigate the state of Nigerian prisons under the Minister of Interior Rauf Aregbesola has nothing to do with the leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Bola Tinubu. He was reacting to a matter of privilege raised by a representative Onofiok Luke who was furious with reports suggesting that the House’s resolution to investigate the state of the Nigerian Correctional Service was a political move by the Speaker against the interior minister. The House had on Wednesday mandated its Committee on Reformation Services to investigate…

Professor Tunde Samuel, a former Special Adviser on Education under ex-Lagos Governor, Bola Tinubu, is dead. The All Progressives Congress (APC) chieftain and member of the powerful Governor’s Advisory Council (GAC) died Wednesday night. Samuel served as Chairman, Governing Council, Adeniran Ogunsanya College of Education (AOCOED); pioneer Provost, Michael Otedola College of Primary Education (MOCPED). The retired professor of Political Economics of Education, Lagos State University (LASU), was a member of the 2014 National Conference. Samuel also served as a member of LASU Implementation Committee and two-time member of the Provisional Government Council. The ex-Chairman, Governing Council, Federal University Otuoke…

It was tears of joy yesterday at Asaga Ohafia as a philanthropist, and legal luminary, Mr. Etigwe Uwa (Senior Advocate of Nigeria), distributed food items and wrappers to widows and the indigent ones in the community. The items included hundreds of pieces of wrappers, bags of rice, and several cartons of Indomie noodles among others. Distributing the items to the beneficiaries on behalf of the legal luminary, Mrs. Choice Oleka Kalu, said the gesture was borne out of Uwa's passion to better the lots of the down trodden particularly widows. She said that Uwa decided to empathize with the windows…

The Police Service Commission has suspended Assistant Commissioner of Police, ACP Sunday Ubua and Assistant Superintendent of Police, ASP James Bawa from the exercise of the powers and functions of their respective offices with effect from Monday, February 14, 2022. The two Police Officers were working under the suspended DCP Abba Kyari in the Intelligence Response Team of the Force Investigation and Intelligence Department of the Nigeria Police Force. According to PSC spokesman, Ikechukwu Ani, “they were also alleged to be involved in the current cocaine seizure and transfer to the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency.” The Commission’s decision was…

The case against Abba Kyari, the suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police who is now in the custody of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), is unrelated to his alleged ties to popular socialite, Obinna Iyiegbu, better known as Obi Cubana, the agency has confirmed. Kyari, who had been on suspension from police duties for the past five months for allegedly helping internet fraudster Hushpuppi to launder his money in the US, was declared wanted by the NDLEA last Monday for alleged involvement in a 25kg cocaine deal. The Nigeria Police Force subsequently announced his arrest and transfer to the…

The embattled Deputy Commissioner of Police, Abba Kyari, has claimed that members of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and Eastern Security Network (ESN) are behind his travails. Kyari made this claim when he appeared before a probe panel led by Joseph Egbunike, a Deputy Inspector-General of Police (DIG) at the Force Headquarters, Abuja, according to a report obtained by Daily Trust. In a report submitted by the panel to the Inspector-General of Police, Usman Baba, which was in turn forwarded to the Police Service Commission (PSC), Kyari said the outlawed IPOB and its armed wing were after him due…

Civil rights advocacy group, Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA), has asked the National Judicial Council through the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Tanko Mohammed, to sanction Justice Mohammed Idris, and other judges for presiding over cases in Federal High Court despite their elevation to the Court of Appeal. In a statement on Wednesday, National Coordinator of HURIWA, Emmanuel Onwubiko, said the CJN and the NJC should immediately recommend punishment for Idris over the “malicious prosecution” of former governor of Abia State, Uzor Kalu. HURIWA, in an earlier letter to the CJN dated February 14, 2022, recalled that on Friday…

The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has fixed April 8 to decide whether the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, will be discharged from the 15- count terrorism charges instituted against him or not. Kanu’s lawyer, Mike Ozekhome, SAN, had urged Justice Binta Nyako to quash and dismiss the amended 15- count charges for being incompetent. Details to follow…