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By AFP President Gustavo Petro on Sunday suspended a ceasefire with Colombia’s biggest drug trafficking group, accusing it of attacking civilians. “I ordered the security forces to resume all military operations against the Gulf Clan,” he said on Twitter. “I will not allow them to keep sowing distress and terror in the communities,” Petro added.…
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By Emmanuel Ogebe NIGERIA’s Supreme Court sparked near universal outrage when it recently awarded senatorial candidacies to two powerful politicians who had not participated in party primary elections. The verdicts simply didn’t make sense to the average citizen who understands that democracy does not mean a non-contestant wins. Incidentally the Nigerian Supreme Court is not…
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A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Wednesday, granted the Economic and Financial Crimes (EFCC), request to continue the trial of the Briton, James Nolan, in absentia after he jumped bail. Justice Ahmed Mohammed gave the order following an application by EFCC’s counsel, Bala Sanga, which was not opposed by Nolan’s lawyer, Peace Ogbonna. Justice Mohammed…
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* Task force records 15 attacks last year * As residents seek harmonious relationship with law enforcement agencies Lagos residents and commuters have called for a harmonious relationship with officials of government agencies working to make the state liveable. They lamented the events of last year where highhandedness of some officers of government agencies led…
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By Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku There are two well-known local examination bodies in West Africa. The one is the West African Examinations Council (WAEC), which started operations in 1952, and the other is the National Examinations Council (NECO), which started conducting exams in April 1999. While the WAEC oversees the regulation of exams in Anglophone countries…
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L-R: Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Abiodun Alabi; mother of Omobolanle Raheem killed by a policeman on Sunday, Mrs Salami; and husband of the slain lawyer, Gbenga Raheem, during a condolence visit to the mother and widower in Lagos…on Tuesday. Photo: Lagos State Police Command The mother of late Omobolanle Raheem, the lawyer who was…
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Prof. Ishaq Olarewaju Oloyede The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) says the deployment of the CCTV device during JAMB examinations had come to stay to tackle examination malpractice. Prof. Is’haq Oloyede, the board’s Registrar, made this known on the side-line of a two-day International Summit on Examination Malpractice which ended on Friday in Lagos.…
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An ijesha business man bought a well from an Ijebu lawyer. The next day while on his way to the market he met the Ijebu lawyer who told him “brother I have sold the well to you but I have not sold the water, if you use the water you will have to pay for…
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Egyptian police At least 35 Egyptian police officers were killed in an ambush by Islamist fighters near the Bahariya oasis in the country’s Western Desert, security and medical sources said Saturday, in a rare flare-up outside the Sinai Peninsula. The interior ministry said security forces hunting down Islamist militants in the region were attacked late…
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Kogi – A director in the Kogi State civil service, Mr Edward Soje has allegedly committed suicide by hanging himself on a tree in Lokoja, the state capital . It was gathered on Saturday in Lokoja that the dangling body of Soje was found on a tree behind the mammy market at the Maigumeri barracks,…