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Mar 11, 2020

Sanusi to challenge detention, forced exile, Kano continues N2.2bn fraud probe

. Counsel say deposed Emir being subjected to maximum trauma • May God bless us with good leaders, prays ex-Kano ruler • El-Rufai offers deposed monarch Kadun...

Mar 10, 2020

BREAKING: WAEC gets new HNO

The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has named Mr. Patrick Ehidiamen Areghan as the new Head of National Office (HNO). The former Head of Test Admini...

Mar 10, 2020

APC NWC meets, begins preparation for NEC meeting

The National Working Committee (NWC) of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) on Tuesday may have kick started preparation for the March 17 Emergency Natio...

Mar 10, 2020

JUST IN: Senate passes CAMA Bill

The Senate on Tuesday passed the Companies and Allied Matters Act Bill. The passage of the Bill titled: “Companies and Allied Matters Act (Repeal and Re-enac...

Mar 10, 2020

JUST IN: Makinde signs Amotekun bill into law

Oyo Governor Seyi Makinde on Tuesday signed the State Security Network Agency (Amotekun) Bill, 2020 into law. Governors in the South West Zone under the chai...

Mar 10, 2020

BREAKING: Dethroned Emir Sanusi moved to Awe town

Deposed Kano Emir Muhammad Sanusi 11 has been relocated to Awe town by the Nasarawa State Government. He was taken to Loko town on Monday hours after he was...

Mar 10, 2020

BREAKING: House gets committee on Coronavirus’ effect on oil prices, benchmark

Worried by the continuous free fall of the price of crude oil on the international market because of the Coronavirus disease, the House of Representatives on Tu...

Mar 10, 2020

BREAKING: Court affirms Duoye Diri as PDP guber candidate

A Federal High Court on Tuesday affirmed Douye Diri as validly elected Governorship Candidate in the 3rd September 2019 Elective Congress of the People’s Democr...

Mar 10, 2020

BREAKING: Dethroned Emir Sanusi leaves Nasarawa residence

Dethroned Emir of Kano, Alhaji Muhammad Sanusi, leaves Loko residence, a town in Nasarawa State, to which he was banished after arriving around 3, am Tuesday mo...

Mar 10, 2020

BREAKING: Nigeria loses 400,000 barrel of crude daily – Gbajabiamila

Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila said on Tuesday that the nation is losing about 400,000 barrel of crude oil daily to crude oil theft....

Mar 10, 2020

BREAKING: NIMASA Executive Directors sacked as Jamoh takes over

President Muhammadu Buhari has sacked two Executive Directors of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) and appointed three new ones....

Mar 10, 2020

Dethronement reversible, says Sanusi’s lawyer

The removal of Muhammadu Sanusi II as the Emir of Kano is reversible in the court of law, says one of his senior lawyers, Abubakar Mahmoud (SAN). Sanusi was...

Mar 10, 2020

ASUU begins two-week warning strike over payroll, 2009 pact with govt • Fed Govt declares action illegal

Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has begun a two-week warning strike with effect from Tuesday. Its National President, Prof. Biodun Ogunyemi, anno...

Mar 10, 2020

Dethroned Emir Sanusi arrives in Nasarawa

Dethroned Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi II, has arrived Loko, a town in Nasarawa State, to which he was banished, the News Agency of Nigeria, reports. The t...

Mar 10, 2020

“l take it in good faith” says dethroned Sanusi

The ousted emir of Kano Muhammad Sanusi ll has said that his six years reign as the emir of the ancient city made him a fulfilled man in life. He equally sai...

Mar 10, 2020

Appeal Court affirms defendants’ ownership of land at Atunrase Estate

The Court of Appeal sitting in Lagos has dismissed an application challenging six respondents’ ownership of land within Atunrase Estate at Gbagada, Lagos State....

Mar 10, 2020

Ganduje dethrones, banishes Sanusi, appoints Ado Bayero’s son new Emir

Sanusi showed total disrespect for office of gov –Kano • Deposed monarch banished to Nasarawa, ACF calls for calm The Kano State Governor, Dr Abdullahi...

Mar 10, 2020

$22.5bn loan to prevent recession – Bamidele

The Chairman, Senate Committee on Judiciary, Human Rights and Legal Matters, Opeyemi Bamidele, has said that the approval given by the Senate to the President,...

Mar 10, 2020

Dethronement: Stop consoling me, we didn’t die, says Sanusi’s daughter

Khadija Sanusi, daughter of the former Emir of Kano, on Monday, asked her followers to stop sending her condolences, following her father’s dethronement. Mom...

Mar 10, 2020

Nigeria needs more lawyers, says Azinge • Veritas University names Law Faculty after the late Justice Chike Idigbe

A former Director-General of the Nigerian Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (NAILS), Prof. Epiphany Azinge (SAN), has said the country does not have enough la...