As the 2022/2023 Legal Year by the Lagos State Judiciary begin on Monday, the Chief Judge of Lagos State, Justice Kazeem Alogba has appealed to the state government to restore the Igbosere High Court to its glorious fame. Recall that the court was burnt down during the 2020 EndSARS protests. The Chief judge of the state Judiciary, Justice Alogba asked for the reconstruction of the High court while giving vote of thanks to mark the commencement of the 2022/2023 Legal Year service at the Lagos Central Mosque, Lagos Island. Justice Alogba lamented the destruction of the Igbosere High Court, noting…
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The 3rd Journalists International Forum For Migration, JIFORM, (Global Migration Summit) to be held in Canada between October 1-10 has announced former Canada minister of Citizenship and Immigration, Hon Gerry Weiner and others as dignitaries to be honoured with international leadership awards. Also joining the league of speakers at the event is Lateefat Oyeyemi Kolapo, the CEO of The Point Newspapers, Nigeria, who is to speak on the challenges of journalists on migration reportage. This was communicated in a statement from Germany E-signed by Teresa Jacob, the Communication Secretary of the summit named the deserving awardees to include Prince Yinka…
Reaction has trailed the one-million-man march for the Labour Party’s Presidential candidate, Mr. Peter Obi, as the Chief Spokesperson and Director of Public Affairs of the Tinubu-Shettima Campaign Council, Festus Keyamo, described the the rally as a scam and propaganda. According to Keyamo, the Minister of State for Labour and Employment, in a tweet on his official Twitter handle @fkeyamo, compared a drone captured photograph of the said one-million-man march for Mr. Obi with that of a fully occupied 78,000 capacity football stadium for Nigerians to judge. The All Progressives Congress Campaign Council’s Spokesperson stated that even a blind man…
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, has arrested a-75-year-old grandpa, Usman Bokina Bajama (alias Clemen) in the early hours of Tuesday 20th September at Anguwan Sate, Mararraban Tola, Mayo Belwa council area of Adamawa where he had a cannabis plantation from where 49kg of the illicit substance was recovered. Femi Babafemi, Director, Media & Advocacy disclosed to newsmen on Sunday that the septuagenarian was among a list of 22 suspects arrested in operations across seven states by operatives of the agency. Also during the operations, One Million One Thousand Three Hundred and Eighty Seven (1,001,387) bottles/capsules of banned new…
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The All Progressives Congress, APC, has explained the non-inclusion of the Vice-President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo in the composition of the Tinubu/Shettima Presidential Campaign Council. According to the Festus Keyamo, SAN, the Director of Public Affairs and Chief Spokesperson of the campaign council, Prof Osinbajo is not included in the list because the President is deeply involved in the campaign, and he has directed that the Vice President and the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, be left out the Campaign Council to concentrate on the activities of governance. Read the unedited press release below ABSENCE OF VICE-PRESIDENT YEMI OSINBAJO…
This award is been a long time coming for me. My achievement as a top and trusted realtor in Lagos State. I was given an award as the top selling realtor in AMEN ESTATE and the reason why I was given this award is because I have been able to help Nigerians in diaspora and Nigerians in Nigeria to get property in AMEN ESTATE and Amen Estate is a top property brand in Nigeria. The award was presented by one of the top celebrities in Nigeria who is Funke Akindele, a popular and award-winning actress, filmmaker and producer. I would…
Professor Zainab Duke Abiola, a human rights activist, has been docked on Friday before Chief Magistrate Elizabeth Jones-Wonniat sitting at the Wuse Magistrates Court Zone 6, Abuja for alledged assault of Inspector Teju Moses, an officer of tehe Nigeria Police Force, The defendant was alledged to have ordered her domestic staff to assault her Police Orderly, Woman Inspector, Teju Moses. The court did not grant the defendant’s bail, and she was remanded in Suleja prison till 5th of October 2022. Magistrate Jones-Wonniat explained that she relied on Section 229 of the Penal Code which gives jurisdiction to the Chief Magistrate…
A Lagos State High Court sitting in Ikeja presided over by Justice Olalekan Oresanya, has awarded a damage sum to the tune of N750,000, against the Lagos State government and it’s agency, Lagos State Traffic Management Authority, LASTMA, over the violation of the fundamental human rights of a motorist, Lawal Aliyu. Justice Oresanya awarded the damage sum while delivering judgement in a suit initiated by Aliyu against LASTMA, Lagos State Government, and the state’s Attorney General, AG. The judge held that it was unconstitutional for LASTMA to impose fines and tow vehicles of alleged traffic offenders without a valid court…
A dismissed police inspector, Olalekan Ogunyemi was sentenced to life imprisonment by Justice Adenike Coker at an Ikeja High Court on Thursday for the killing of Kolade Johnson, a 35-year-old man at a viewing centre in Lagos. The convict Olalekan, 45, killed the football fan when he shot Johnson in the lower abdomen on March 31, 2019, at a viewing centre at Magoro, Ikeja, Lagos. Delivering the judgement in charge No ID/9776C/2019 between the Lagos State Government and Olalekan Ogunyemi, the trial judge, Justice Coker found him guilty of the charge and accordingly sentenced him to life imprisonment with the caveat of serving…