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Many lawyers in Abuja on Tuesday ignored Monday’s directive by the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) for legal practitioners to stay away from courts until the Executive reverses the suspension of …

The National Judicial Council (NJC) has summoned an emergency meeting over the suspension of Walter Onnoghen, chief justice of Nigeria (CJN). Newsmen reported that the meeting will be held in …

The Senate, on Wednesday, confirmed Modibbo Hamman Tukur as the Director of the Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit (NFIU). The confirmation followed the adoption of the report of the committee on …

The Minister of Information, Lai Mohammed, has asked Senate President Bukola Saraki to stop dancing on the graves of victims of the Offa robbery incident. He made this known while …

The Inspector-General of police, Ibrahim Idris, has sternly warned the Senate to stay off appointment of police chiefs in the country. Idris demanded that the lawmakers expunge provisions of a …

The Nigerian Senate did not have the required number of Senators to hold a plenary on Tuesday. The lawmakers adjourned the plenary for a week as a result of their …

The principal suspect in the alleged assassination attempt on Deputy Senate President Ike Ekweremadu, Mohammed Yusuf, 25, has confessed that they only were on a mission to steal and not …

Senators of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and their Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) counterparts have clashed on Wednesday over the Federal Government’s social intervention programme. Trouble started when Minority Leader …

The Deputy Senate President, Senator Ike Ekweremadu in the early hours of Tuesday escaped assassination attempt alongside his wife and one of his sons. But one of the assassins was …

The Federal Ministry of Finance has denied knowledge of a $3.5 billion fund allegedly kept and utilised by the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) for fuel subsidy. The Permanent Secretary, …