Court remands two undergraduates in connection with the alleged armed robbery and murder of a Benue university student

14 Mar 2023

On Monday, March 13, 2023, a Makurdi Magistrate’s Court remanded two students, Ugosor Japhet and Gwebe Ageba, on allegations of negligent homicide and armed theft.  The defendants were arrested after being charged with the murder of Erkaa Naomi Dooshima, a Benue State University student.  Mrs. Erdoo Ter, the Magistrate, did not accept the defendants’ plea […]

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Soldier opens fire and kills colleague

14 Mar 2023

Another internal breach has been recorded among the North-East troops of the Nigerian Army after a yet-to-be identified soldier fighting Boko Haram insurgents in the North-East opened fire on his colleague and killed him. The deceased soldier was identified as Private Diko. According to military sources, the duo were troops of Operation Desert Sanity and […]

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Police apprehend four disgruntled teenagers in connection with attacks in Niger

13 Mar 2023

The police in Niger State have apprehended four youths in connection with the unrest that rocked the Minna metropolis and its environs, resulting in several residents being injured and property being destroyed willfully. Restless youths have terrorized residents of Barkin Sale, Kpakungu, Stadium Road, Limawa, and Mobile roundabout in the last four days. Many people […]

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Suspected Islamist militants kill 19 people in a village raid

13 Mar 2023

Suspected Islamist militants killed at least 19 people and burned down a medical facility in a raid on a village in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo on Sunday, according to two regional officials and a resident. According to NAN, the attack took place around 1 a.m. (2300 GMT) in the village of Kirindera in […]

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Woman sentenced to 12 years imprisonment for stealing five children

12 Mar 2023

A Children, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence Court, sitting in Awka, Anambra State, has sentenced a 42-year-old woman, Victoria Enwerem (Anosike) to multiple jail terms for stealing five children in Onitsha. Victoria Enwerem was arraigned in Court on a-3 count charge: conspiracy to steal children; fraudulently enticing away and harbouring children, and forcefully isolating the children […]

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Court rejected LP’s request to supervise INEC BVAs Reconfiguration

11 Mar 2023

The Labour Party, on Thursday, knocked the Independent National Electoral Commission, saying the electoral umpire deliberately came up with its idea of reconfiguring the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System machines after its presidential candidate, Peter Obi, sought to examine the election materials. This was as the party faulted the commission’s claim of backing up the data […]

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WHAT TO EXPECT FROM NIGERIA ‘S POLITICAL JUDICIARY

11 Mar 2023

Election petitions are charades from the point of real resolution of legal and factual issues. They serve the purpose of pacification of the people to accept and live with their conquest by a few elements. The only thing that could alter the predetermined result is if the people demonstrate that they have not been conquered in fact and would reject on the streets every form of pacification from the court.

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WHO CAME SECOND – ANOTHER NIGERIAN CONSTITUTIONAL PUZZLE

11 Mar 2023

We return to the question, who therefore between Atiku and Obi deserves to go into a second ballot with Tinubu? Atiku won over 50% of the votes in just 3 States – Adamawa, Gombe and Yobe States. Obi won over 50% of the votes in 7 States – Edo, Anambra, Abia, Imo, Delta, Ebonyi and Enugu States. Obi is the runner up as according to the officially declared results and is the one qualified to go into a second ballot with Tinubu – should there be one.

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NIGERIA’S 25% QUAGMIRE

11 Mar 2023

It is absurd to say that a Territory that belongs to and is administered by the Federal Government is at the same time a State in a Federation where both power and territory are shared between the Federal Government and the States. I wish we could stop making such arguments.

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