THE Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), the Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF) and other defendants in a suit seeking to void the purported extension of the tenure of the Comptroller General of Immigration (CGI), Muhammed Babandede by President Muhammadu Buhari, have been ordered to file their defence.
Suspended Economic and Financial Crimes Commission Acting Chairman Ibrahim Magu cannot get justice before the commission of inquiry probing the activities of the anti-graft agency, a Nigerian-based anti-corruption group – Human and Environmental Development Agenda (HEDA) – and its three international partners said in a letter to President Muhammadu.
The Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, says his ministry had compiled a comprehensive profile of Ministries, Departments and Agencies with accommodation challenges to benefit from forfeited assets.
Nigeria’s bid to set aside the P&ID Limited’s arbitration award has suffered a setback as VR Capital Group Limited has secured a United States’ court ruling to block the federal government from accessing its internal documents.
Senate Committee on Judiciary, Human Rights and Legal Matters, on Monday, quizzed the officials of the Ministry of Justice over N2 billion it plans to spend on legal services in 2021.
The Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr Abubakar Malami (SAN), said on Thursday that he had proposed the decentralisation of the Nigerian prisons.
President Muhammadu Buhari gave the nod for the rescue operation by American Special Forces who stormed a location in Nigeria to free Philip Walton, the American hostage who was kidnapped in the Niger Republic in a cross border attack by motorcycle-riding bandits.
Today (November 2) on the international calendar is devoted to ‘End Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists’ and comes just days after a country such as Somalia pledged to end arrest of journalists.
The popular Nigerian saying “It is easier to drag a horse to the river than to make it take a drink” is apt when one thinks of the frustration of victims of human rights violations seeking to enforce court judgments against Nigerian law enforcement agencies. Enilari’s widow and his four bereaved children sued the Nigerian military alongside the two power-drunk officers.
PRESIDENCY: GREED PROPELLED LOOTING - NATION PG.27, THISDAY PG.5
Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina, has said the looting of warehouses and shops by hoodlums was not necessarily caused by poverty but greed.
WE GAVE PALLIATIVES TO STATES FOR ONWARD DISTRIBUTION TO CITIZENS – FG - DAILY TRUST PG.4
The Federal Government on Monday said it handed over COVID-19 palliatives from the nation’s reserve and other sources to the state governments for onward distribution to the citizens.
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