FORMER president Chief Olusegun Obasanjo has been officially inducted as a member of pan-cultural Igbo umbrella body Ohaneze Ndigbo who presented him with a cake to mark the occasion on his 85th birthday yesterday.
Chief Obasanjo, who governed Nigeria as a civilian president between 1999 and 2007, was also a military leader...
MEMBERS of Nigeria's House of Representatives have declared a national emergency on the increasing spate of ritual killings after a bill asking the inspector-general of police to take urgent action on the matter got passed today.
Adopting a motion of urgent public importance introduced by deputy minority leader Hon Toby...
GOVERNOR Dapo Abiodun of Ogun State has returned to Abeokuta following his controversial disappearance over recent weeks and got to work immediately by signing the recently-passed anti-open grazing bill into law.
Earlier this week, Governor Abiodun came in for fierce criticism after governance in the state was brought to a...
MEMBERS of the Ogun State House of Assembly have passed a bill regulating the establishment of cattle ranches which penalises anyone found guilty of engaging in open grazing with three years imprisonment.
In May, the Southern Governors Forum met in the Delta State capital Asaba where among other things, it agreed to ban...
NIGERIA'S new high commissioner to the UK Chief Sarafadeen Ishola has promised to introduce a new regime at the London mission that will end the current difficulties diasporans face whenever they want to renew or acquire new passports.
By far Nigeria's largest diplomatic mission anywhere in the world, the London high...
FORMER president Chief Olusegun Obasanjo and Muslim cleric Sheikh Ahmed Gumi have recommended the creation of special courts to try bandits and kidnappers promptly following their recent meeting in Abeokuta to discuss insecurity.
With Nigeria teetering on the verge of a total breakdown of law and order, Chief Obasanjo and...
MEMBERS of the Ogun State judicial panel of inquiry set up to investigate abuses by the Special Anti Robbery Squad (Sars) police unit have been told how one taxi driver was detained for seven months for daring to ask policemen to pay their fares.
Following a month-long nationwide protest against the brutality of the Sars...
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