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Following the ban on scavengers, popularly known as ‘baba nbolas’, in the FCT, the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC),  Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Command, has arrested 36 suspects with dangerous weapons. Addressing newsmen in Abuja, the Commandant, FCT Command,

Following the United States Department of State’s Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL’s) deployment of equipment worth millions of dollars to five Nigerian universities to offer pro-bono services to prison inmates, in conjunction with the Public and Private

An Anambra State High Court 2 sitting in Awka and presided over by Justice C. C. Okaa, has ordered a titled chief from Nri, Anaocha Local Government Area, Chief Ambrose Obi-Okoye, to pay the sum of ₦15.5m for publishing some defamatory

The Briton, Mr James Nolan, who jumped bail in the ongoing trial linked to an alleged $9.6bn Process and Industrial Development (P&ID) Ltd scandal, on Thursday – today, January 16 – told Justice Obiora Egwuatu of an Abuja, FCT, federal high

A coalition of civil society organizations has called on the Supreme Court to review its judgment in a multi-million dollar contractual dispute between an indigenous company, Owigs and Obigs Nig. Ltd and Zenith Plc, with a view to reversing itself. Anchored by Empowerment

The Nigeria Police Force said it has written to Amnesty International, demanding public apology and retraction of its publication against the force over human right violation during the End-Bad-Governance protest. The Force Public Relations Officer, ACP Olumuyiwa Adejobi said this in

Prof. Cyril Ndifon, the suspended Dean, Faculty of Law, University of Calabar (UNICAL) on Tuesday – yesterday, January 14 – alleged that pictures extracted from his phone with regard to the alleged sexual harassment offence, were edited. Led in evidence as

A Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO), Almajiri Support Initiatives of Nigeria (ASIN) has disclosed how  the group rescued a teenager jailed for stealing two tubers of cassava, and other underaged boys who couldn’t afford to pay the fines imposed on them in the alternative. Chairman of the