Month: May 2023

The Federal Government has said that governors can offset or grant waivers to inmates with fines of less than One million as some of them are behind bars for minor offenses that can be easily waived by the states. The Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola disclosed this during the commissioning of a 20-bed space medical facility at Port Harcourt maximum security custodial center. The former Governor of Osun State said […]

The Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal in Abuja has adjourned the pre-hearing session in the petition of former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar against the election of Bola Tinubu to May 18, 2023, and also his petition for the live coverage of proceedings. Atiku’s lead counsel Chris Uche informed the court that all the lawyers jointly agreed to next Thursday’s return date to allow their teams to sort out documents to be […]

The Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Interior Shuaib Belgore yesterday said no fewer than 52,436 inmates of the correctional centers nationwide are awaiting trial. Belgore who disclosed this during the two-day High Conference on Decongestion and Corrections Management in Abuja explained that while 23,071 are convicted persons, 3,322 are condemned inmates on death row, stressing that there has been a steady rise in the population of the custodial centers […]

The Labor Party and its presidential candidate Peter Obi have supported the request by the People’s Democratic Party PDP and its presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, for a live broadcast of the proceedings of the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Abuja. Counsel to the Labor Party and its presidential candidate, Livy Uzuokwu made this known yesterday after the court adjourned pre-hearing sessions in their petition challenging the election of the […]

Justice James Omotosho of the Federal High Court Abuja has given an order of perpetual injunction restraining the National Broadcasting Commission NBC from imposing fines, on broadcast stations in the country and also set aside the 500,000 Naira fines imposed on each of the 45 broadcast stations on March 1, 2019. Omotosho who described NBC’s act as being ultra vires in his ruling also held that NBC, not being a […]

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission EFCC, has arrested the former Minister of Power, Sale Mamman over alleged 22 billion Naira fraud. Mamman, who was the minister of power from 2019 to 2021, was arrested yesterday morning and detained at the headquarters of the EFCC in Abuja in connection to investigations into corruption in the execution of some power projects. The minister was accused of conspiring with ministry staff in […]

The national leadership of the Nigerian Labor Congress NLC and the Trade Union Congress TUC have agreed to suspend their ongoing industrial action in Imo State to enable the peaceful resolution of all outstanding issues in an atmosphere of mutuality. The decision was contained in a memorandum of understanding MoU between the Imo state government and the unions. According to the MoU which was signed by the Secretary to the […]