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Renowned oils firm, Matrix Energy and its Chief Executive Officer, Alhaji Abdulkadir Adisa Aliu, have approached a High Court of Justice of the Federal Capital Territory, seeking N20billion over what they described as libelous allegations and publications against them. In a suit, through their Counsel, Dr Ahmed Raji, SAN, the claimants are praying the court for an order restraining two media houses, BusinessDays Media Limited and Cable Media and Publishing Limited from further publishing libelous...

Olakunle Olasanmi 1st August, 2024 A High Court of the Federal Capital Territory has restricted participants in the August 1 hardship protest in the nation’s capital to the Moshood Abiola National Stadium. Justice Sylvanus Oriji, issued the order on Wednesday in Abuja while delivering ruling in an ex-parte application brought before him by the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory. Defendants in the suit are Omoyele Sowore, Damilare Adenola, Adama Ukpabi, Tosin Harsogba, persons unknown,...

….Says Sen George Akume is a political liability to Benue people   Insist Gov Alia remains the face of APC in the state…   The Benue Renaissance Movement (BREM), an elite socio-political group has written to the national chairman of the All Progressive Congress (APC)His Excellency, Alh Abdullahi Ganduje to keep him abreast of the political realities in the state.   In a press release signed by Dr Timothy Tor , the group expressed displeasure...

The Convention Planning Committee, CPC of the National Association of Nigerian Students,  NANS has urged the outgoing executives led by  Umar Barambu to desist from interfering in the November  24th to 26th scheduled convention of the body. The CPC Chairman, Adamu Kabir Matazu who addressed a press conference in Abuja said the past few weeks have been unfortunately that of unnecessary distractions, orchestrated by the outgolng President. Matazu said  while the CPC  recognizes his exalted...

The head of the Biafra Republic Government in Exile, Mazi Simon Ekpa, has charged the Nigerian government with targeting Igbos unfairly and with injustice for many years. According to him, there was no turning back once the Biafra referendum was implemented. This was revealed on Friday during a two-day extraordinary Biafra referendum convention in Helsinki, Finland, by Ekpa, a lawyer based in Finland and the Prime Minister of BRGIE. He clarified that self-preservation has turned...

The Nasarawa State Command of the Nigeria Police Force has begun an in-depth investigation into the shooting of three people, including two students and an admissions applicant, as well as the kidnapping of a female student who attended the state-owned Isa Mustapha Agwai Polytechnic in Lafia. The investigation is being conducted at the request of the state command. On Monday night, heavily armed individuals stormed Ombi 1, a residential neighborhood for students located two kilometers...

National Identity Management Commission will be used by the Federal Government to invest in the harmonisation of the nation’s data, according to Interior Minister Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, who also announced that the country will shortly phase out numerous ID registrations. Speaking on Monday in Abuja, Tunji-Ojo stated that the nation needed a tech-driven data centre under the ministry. The delegation was visiting with the MTN management team, which was led by CEO Karl Toriola. “We need...