The biggest story in Nigeria at the moment is the size of Nigeria’s delegation to the Conference of Parties (COP) of the United Nations Summit on Climate Change, otherwise known as COP 28. In simple terms, the objective of the
By Farooq Kperogi
The Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre (CISLAC), one of Nigeria’s most prominent pro-democracy NGOs, invited me to make a virtual presentation from my base in Atlanta to a national seminar it organized last Thursday on “targeted judicial … Read the rest
Nigeria’s 1,411 delegates at the ongoing COP28 in Dubai are not all government-funded and include civil society actors, business persons and others who have different roles to play at the conference, a presidential aide has said.
The Senior Special Assistant … Read the rest
Following the three-day retreat held for Ministers, Special Advisers, Permanent Secretaries and heads of Agencies and Departments by President Bola Tinubu, rather belatedly, three weeks ago with the theme: “Delivering on the Renewed Hope Agenda” some of the Ministers have
The idea that the “judiciary is the last hope of the common man” is a banal, flyblown cliché that is habitually huckstered in Nigerian judicial circles and uncritically repeated in the Nigerian commentariat. But that’s mere hype. There has never … Read the rest
President Bola Tinubu is energetically marketing the country to foreign countries and their businessmen. He has showcased the refurbished face of an investor-friendly country to the Arabs, the Germans, and the French, among others. Their yes to his invitation to … Read the rest
The Court of Appeal in Abuja, on Thursday, affirmed the electoral victories of the governors of Nasarawa and Imo states, Abdullahi Sule and Inuwa Yahaya, respectively.
Both governors were elected on the platform of the ruling All Progressives Congress.
The … Read the rest
The Kano State Police Command has arrested seven persons for participating in Wednesday’s protest following the reported contradiction in the judgment of the Court of Appeal sacking Governor Abba Yusuf.
As a result, the Concerned Yoruba Community in Kano expressed … Read the rest
Jamie Foxx was sued on Wednesday for allegedly s£xually assaulting a patron at a rooftop bar in New York in 2015.
The woman, identified in the suit as Jane Doe, alleges that Foxx took her to a secluded corner of … Read the rest
Nigeria hopes to become a member of the BRICS group of nations within the next two years, a report by Bloomberg has disclosed.
The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Yusuf Tuggar, who revealed this, stated that the country will join … Read the rest
