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Nigeria @ 63: No world leader invited, says FG

No foreign leaders have been invited to the 63rd anniversary of the country’s independence, which is set for October 1, according to the Federal Government on Monday. According to the authorities, the choice to have a low-key celebration was made. This was said at a press conference in Abuja by George Akume, Secretary to the Government of the Federation. Low-key celebration has nothing to do with whether or not we’re performing poorly, he declared. The...

Minimum wage, budget first seven problems as National Assembly resumes

After a lengthy break that lasted more than eight weeks, members of the National Assembly will return to work on Tuesday. The expense of living is becoming increasingly difficult for Nigerians nationwide as a result of the government’s actions, which have caused prices for products and services to continue rising while the lawmakers were on vacation. ProbitasNews outlines some of the challenges that the National Assembly will need to address when it reconvenes following the...

“Probe Missing $15Billion In Oil Revenue, N200Billion For Refinery Repairs,” SERAP Tells Tinubu

President Bola Tinubu has been called by the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) to look into claims that over $15 billion in oil earnings and N200 billion set aside for refinery repairs are missing. According to the Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI), the organization requested that the President “set up a presidential panel of enquiry to promptly probe the grim allegations that over US$15 billion of oil revenues and N200 billion budgeted to...

4,000 prisoners in jails due to their incapacity to pay fines- Minister of Interior

Over 4,000 prisoners are being kept in detention facilities around the nation, according to Interior Minister Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, because they are unable to pay penalties that have been imposed on them by magistrates and courts. He expressed his regret that more than 70% of the people housed in the country’s detention facilities are awaiting trial at this time. He pointed out that if non-custodial alternatives as outlined in the Correctional Service Act are investigated, the...

President Tinubu continues Buhari’s cruel cycle by refusing to free Nnamdi Kanu says Ejimakor

The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) leader Nnamdi Kanu’s Special Counsel, Aloy Ejimakor, has stated that the IPOB leader’s ongoing arrest is a ploy by the Nigerian government to inflame tensions in the country’s southeast. The former president of Nigeria, Ejimakor claimed, deliberately refused to grant Kanu’s release throughout his administration. He also bemoaned President Bola Tinubu’s refusal to break the “vicious circle” by denying Kanu’s release. He claimed that a scheme to increase unrest...

Police apprehend five with human skull in Niger

Five persons under the custody of the Niger State Police Command were found in possession of a human skull. The accused admitted to the police that an Alfa had sent them to bring the skull for ritualistic financial objectives. The command’s spokesman, DSP Wasiu Abiodun, revealed this information in a statement released on Friday and stated that it was impossible to locate the Alfa. Two of the suspects, Isah Mohammed, 26, and Idris Mohammed, 28,...

Nasarawa Poly Rector takes a journalist to court over defamation, demands N100m in damages

Rabiu Omaku, the Nasarawa State Correspondent for Universal Reporters, has been sued by Dr. Justina Anjiode Kotso, the Rector of Isa Mustapha Agwai Polytechnic, Lafia, for allegedly writing fraudulent articles disparaging her and the school. In a report titled Rector IMAPOLY (Formerly Nasarawa State Polytechnic) In The Eyes Of The Storm As Allowances Of SIWES Students Disappeared Into Thin Air, Omaku had, among other things, accused the Rector of embezzling funds meant for graduates of...

Bandits kidnap Zamfara varsity construction workers

Bandits have kidnapped nine construction workers at Zamfara State’s Federal University Gusau. According to previous accounts, robbers kidnapped a large number of students from the same university in the early hours of Friday (today). According to one of the staff, Ibrahim Mohammed, the criminals on motorbikes arrived at the university in the early hours of Friday. He claimed that the bandits broke into the building where the constitution workers were resting and stole them away...

‘Why do police use tear gas against mourners who stormed Lekki Tollgate for Mohbad’s candlelight procession’

The Lagos State Police Command has denied firing live bullets at mourners and sympathisers of Mohbad, who gathered at the Lekki Tollgate on Thursday night. It was stated that in a series of social media videos, scores of people were seen taking to their heels after teargas was released into the air. Following the incident, some people were seriously injured and sent to the hospital. The command spokesperson, Benjamin Hundeyin, said in a statement released...

PEPT judgement: No presidential election has been upturned in Nigeria for non-compliance with electoral act

The Judges thoroughly laid forth principles of law and quoted applicable laws, applied them to the facts in issue as submitted by the petitioners, and evaluated the evidence all permitted by the Evidence Act, 2011, as tendered throughout the trial of these three merged cases, and reached a right result. The judgement, in my opinion, revealed a lack of competent legal research and trial planning. Instead of petitioners supplying relevant documents and their lawyers conducting...