Saturday, January 9, 2021
Why Court dismissed certificate forgery case against Obaseki
Thursday, January 7, 2021
Congress certifies Biden win after violent Capitol riot
Congress has now certified President-elect Joe Biden's 2020 election victory, despite a chaotic and deadly scene that erupted after a pro-Trump mob stormed the Capitol and delayed the proceedings.
The joint session of Congress, which is normally a ceremonial step, was halted for several hours when rioters breached the Capitol.
Proceedings resumed at about 8 p.m. ET Wednesday, with Vice President Mike Pence bringing the Senate session back into order.
The Senate and House rejected objections to throw out Georgia and Pennsylvania's electoral votes for Biden. Republicans also objected to Arizona, Nevada and Michigan's electoral votes, but the motions failed before they reached debate.
The Senate voted 93 to 6 to dismiss the objection raised by Republicans to Arizona's results, and 92 to 7 to reject the objection to Pennsylvania.
These are the senators who voted to object to some of the results of the election (and the states they objected to):
The House ultimately voted to reject an objection to throw out Pennsylvania's Electoral College votes for President-elect Joe Biden, but over half of the House Republicans backed the effort. The challenge failed by a vote of 282-138.
The GOP House minority leader, Rep. Kevin McCarthy of California, and his deputy, Steve Scalise, were among those seeking to overturn the results
Sunday, December 6, 2020
The East Carolina University in the United States has denied appointing the Kano State Governor, Abdullahi Ganduje
Friday, November 27, 2020
Hisbah bans radio stations from calling black friday in kano
Saturday, November 21, 2020
GOP leaders’ embrace of Trump’s refusal to concede fits pattern of rising authoritarianism, data shows
Thursday, November 5, 2020
You can’t dictate to us anymore, PANDEF, Afenifere, Ohanaeze, Middle Belt tell North
Monday, October 12, 2020
BREAKING: Buhari, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala Meet At Aso Rock
President Muhammadu Buhari and former Minister of Finance and Coordinator of the Economy, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, are meeting right now at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
The former minister is one of two final leading contenders for the position of Director-General of the World Trade Organisation.
Okonjo-Iweala and South Korea’s Yoo Myung-hee had scaled the hurdles to the final stage on October 7, 2020.
Okonjo-Iweala was cited going to meet with Buhari in company with the Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, Niyi Adebayo, and the Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Zubair Dada.
THE WHISTLER learnt that the visit is most certainly in connection with the WTO election.
Buhari has since backed Okonjo-Iweala, who served under the administrations of former President Olusegun Obasanjo and former President Goodluck Jonathan, to clinch the plum job.
She will probably speak with State House Correspondents after ending the session with Buhari
Source: punchng.com
Sunday, September 27, 2020
An area of eastern Ghana has declared itself a sovereign state Togoland
Source: https://www.dw.com/en/ghanas-western-togoland-region-declares-sovereignty/a-55051426 |
Thursday, June 18, 2020
Federal government to setup special court for rape cases
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He also said the Federal Ministry of Justice had started a review of relevant laws aimed at proposing relevant legislative changes to enhance preventive, investigative and counter-measures.
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Malami, represented by the Solicitor-General of the Federation and Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Justice, Mr Dayo Apata (SAN), said this at a press conference jointly held with the Executive Secretary of the National Human Rights Commission, Mr. Tony Ojukwu.
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The press conference focused on modalities for the eradication of rape and other sexual and gender-based violence in the country.
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Malami said the talks over the establishment of the special courts to hear cases relating to the offences were being held with heads of various courts.
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He said the proposed court would help to ensure expeditious trial of all pending and future rape and gender-based violence cases.
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He said, “To tackle this hydra-headed menace headlong, my office (the Federal Ministry of Justice) is currently engaging with the respective Heads of Courts, for the establishment of specialised courts for the speedy and seamless trial of rape/gender-based violence offences in Nigeria.
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“The aforestated specialised court when established will necessarily create a timely/speedy trial of all pending and incoming rape and other related gender-based cases and facilitate their conclusion within record time."
Friday, May 22, 2020
Professor Obioma appoitmented registrar of NECO
Man celebrated 100 days consecutive with out flight to another country
Nigeria finance minister says economy will definitely go recession
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She said, “The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has made an assessment. So, it is the NBS assessment that Nigeria will go into a recession measuring at an average of -4.4%.
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“But with the work that the Economic Accessibility Committee is doing; bringing stimulus packages, we believe that we can reduce the impact of that recession.
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“And if we applied all that have been proposed and we are able to implement it, we may end up with a recession that is -0.4 percent. In any case, we will go into recession but what we are trying to do is to make sure that it is shallow so that we will quickly come out of it come 2021.”
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A country’s economy goes into recession when its Gross Domestic Product (GDP) reduces for two consecutive quarters.
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In her statement on Thursday, Ahmed suggested that Nigeria would slip into recession in the second quarter of 2020.
Wednesday, May 20, 2020
court struck out resistance of arrest suit against Dino meleye
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Justice Yusuf Halilu struck out the eight counts on the grounds of lack of diligent prosecution.
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The judge made the order following the inability of the Office of the Attorney-General of the Federation to produce its sole proposed witness to testify on Tuesday.
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Melaye was on January 22, 2019 arraigned before the judge by the Inspector-General on Police, who later handed over the case to the AGF office.
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Melaye was arraigned on charges bordering on alleged conspiracy, resistance to arrest, failure to honour police invitation and intentionally giving false information to the public.
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The police had alleged that the senator conspired with one Silas Omenka on December 28, 2018, to commit an offence of illegal obstruction to a lawful arrest, thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 97 of the Penal Code.
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The prosecution alleged that Melaye intentionally resisted lawful arrest, thereby committed an offence punishable under Section 172 of the Penal Code.
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He was also alleged to have intentionally tweeted, with the intention of inciting the public against the police.
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The prosecution also alleged that Melaye tweeted that the Inspector-General of Police planned to arrest and inject him to death, which was false.
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It alleged that this constituted an offence punishable under Section 416 of the Penal Code. He had pleaded not guilty to the charges.
The Senate on Tuesday asked the Federal Government to consider a comprehensive review of the power privatisation policy
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The red chamber said Nigerians would not enjoy stable power supply in the next 10 years if the activities of the distribution companies were not reviewed and restructured.
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The Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, stated this on Tuesday after the Senate had considered and approved a motion by Senator Gabriel Suswan on the power sector recovery plan.
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He said, “We gave power to them (power generation and distribution companies) and they still come to the public to ask for funds.
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“I think it’s time for Nigeria to consider reversing the privatisation of the power sector or they should just cancel the entire privatisation process completely.
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“If we leave it, we may not have power for another 10 years.”
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Lawan said, “The privatisation of the power sector has, so far, not been successful. We expected efficiency and effectiveness in the power supply.
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“The Discos have no capacity to supply us power. The Gencos have challenges too.
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“It is not a good commentary that we should continue to give them money. They’re private businesses. We need to review this privatisation.
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“Our committee needs to investigate trillions spent. That’s a lot of money.
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“Try to find out what has happened so far. Government needs to look at this whole thing.
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“Maybe, government is not doing its own part. We need to find out.
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“There is lack of capital, lack of investment. We feel very bad because we have no electricity and the country is suffering.”
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The Senate also urged the Federal Government to suspend the planned electricity tariff increase due to take effect from July given the increased hardship occasioned by the coronavirus pandemic.
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The upper chamber also commended the Federal Government for the proactive initiative to establish the N1.7tn Covid-19 crisis intervention fund to cater for critical issues on effective management of the pandemic.
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Tuesday, May 19, 2020
BREAKING: FG sacks TCN MD, Usman Mohammed

The managing director of the Transmission Company of Nigeria, Usman Gur Mohammed has been sacked.
This development was announced via a statement issued by the Minister of Power, Mamman Sale, signed by his spokesman, Artimas Aaron on Tuesday evening. His replacement, Sule Abdulaziz, has been ordered to take over immediately.
“As part of continuing measures to reposition and improve the performance of the Power Sector in the country, the Honorable Minister of Power Engr. Sale Mamman hereby announces major changes at the Transmission Company of Nigeria”
“Accordingly, the Managing Director of the TCN, Usman Gur Mohammed has been removed from office with immediate effect. He is being replaced with Engr. Sule Ahmed Abdulaziz, as Managing Director, in acting capacity.”
It’s unclear the reason for the sack. Before joining TCN, Mohammed was the Principal Power Utility Transformation Specialist in the AfDB’s Nigeria Country Department
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