The 2023/2024 legal year has commenced with the Court of Appeal holding a special court session on Monday.The legal year ceremony is a long-established tradition ushering in the new legal year and also provides an opportunity for justices to reflect on the successes and challenges of the previous year, review
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The Lagos State Governorship Election Tribunal has dismissed the petition filed by Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour and the Labour Party (LP) from Olajide Adediran, popularly known as Jandor of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP).Jandor is contesting the outcome of the March 18 governorship elections in Lagos State, challenging the victory of Gov.
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The Supreme Court of Nigeria has confirmed that a fire that broke out on Monday morning was caused by an electrical fault in one of the chambers of the court.UNITY TIMES reports that the fire was quickly extinguished by staff using fire extinguishers on hand, and there were no casualties.Festus
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Kano State Matchmaking and Marriage Association, known as ‘Mai Dalilin Aure’ in Hausa, has joined other Nigerians in appreciating the honesty displayed by a tricycle rider, Auwalu Salisu, who recently returned N15 million to a passenger who forgot the money in his tricycle.The chairman of the group, Mukhtar Inuwa Yakasai,
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A Magistrate Court sitting in Port Harcourt has discharged and acquitted a lecturer with the Rivers State University, Prof. David Ogbonna, who was standing trial on alleged sexual assault on a female student of the said institution.Ogbonna, former Head of Department of Microbiology, RSU, was accused of sexually assaulting a
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Retired footballer Sunday Eboh has been jailed for 3 years and fined €20,000 after being convicted, together with fellow Nigerian Tony Ogbonna of being part of a romance fraud scheme that cost an elderly Maltese widow €58,700 in total.The men’s lawyers gave notice of appeal. Eboh, Collins Eguavoen, Marvis Iyeke,
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The Diphtheria outbreak in Nigeria has spread to 105 Local Government Areas across the country, killing 453 children as of 24th of September, 2023. Confirming the situation in its latest update on the Federal Government’s response to the outbreak, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, NCDC, and National Primary
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The President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke, has warned that about 50% of Nigerian university students may drop out of school within the next two years if the Nigerian government fails to stop the continuous fee hike in universities.Osodeke, who spoke at Channels TV
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