by Uchechukwu Okoroafor, AbujaSince Nigeria's return to democracy in 1999, an unwritten agreement to rotate the presidency between the Northern and Southern regions has served as a stabilizing framework to address the nation's deep-rooted ethnic and regional divides. This practice reflects a recognition of Nigeria's diverse political landscape and the
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Judicial Service Commission in Bauchi has dismissed a Shari'a Court Judge, Umar Ibrahim for alleged gross misconduct. It was learnt that the dismissed judge served at Jalam Shari'ah Court in Dambam local government area of the state. Confirming the dismissal of the judge in a statement made available to reporters in Bauchi,
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The Niger State government is to deploy one million computers and tablets to all public schools in the state, even as 1,000 female students will be sponsored to study medical courses every year. The governor, Mohammed Umaru Bago, disclosed this at the traditional and religious leaders conference on the significance of
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The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja on Friday granted bail to the embattled former governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello, in the sum of N500 million with two sureties in the like sum.Trial judge Justice Emeka Nwite, who granted the bail application, held that the sureties must be owners
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The governors of the states of the federation had endorsed the creation of state police following the submission of their reports to the National Economic Council, NEC.The governor of Kaduna, Uba Sani, said this while briefing State House correspondents at the end of the 147th NEC meeting chaired by Vice
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Nigerian activist and publisher, Omoyele Sowore, has raised concerns on an alleged conspiracy among influential elites aimed at leaving the beleaguered human rights lawyer, Dele Farotimi, incarcerated due to his defamation case involving Afe Babalola, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria.Sowore made this assertion in a statement shared via his X
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The Attorney-General of Lagos State and the Commissioner for Justice, Mr. Lawal Pedro (SAN), says the Human Organ and Tissue Transplantation Bill has been signed into law to prohibit illegal organ harvesting.Pedro disclosed this on Thursday at the Ministry of Justice in Alausa, Ikeja, while briefing newsmen on the significance
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Activist and lawyer, Deji Adeyanju has told the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, that all the lands in FCT he grabbed will be recovered.Adeyanju claims Wike is too small to stop landowners who lost their properties from reclaiming them.He said on social media, “All the land the
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