President Muhammadu Buhari has constituted an implementation committee on autonomy of state legislature and state judiciary.Femi Adesina, spokesman to the president, disclosed this in a statement on Sunday.He said the committee will drive the actualisation of the autonomy granted to the legislature and judiciary at the state level.It will be chaired by Abubakar Malami, attorney-general of the federation and minister [...]
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Monica Osagie, a student of the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, at the center of the sex-for-mark crisis rocking the school, on Tuesday appeared before the committee set up by the university.In a leaked telephone conversation, Richard Akindele, a professor in the institution, was heard demanding sex from Osagie, a postgraduate student of business administration.Akindele solicited sex to award her a [...]
Peters Emuze, Nigeria's candidate, has been elected to the United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR).Emuze beat candidates from six other countries-Algeria, Sudan, Niger, Uganda, Cameroon and Mauritius-to clinch the first of the two seats for Africa during the election which held at the UN headquarters, New York.Elected for a four-year term, Emuze would be representing the African [...]
Eyitayo Jegede, governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the Ondo state 2016 election, has lauded the Corruption and Financial Crime Cases Trial Monitoring Committee (COTRIMCO) recently set up by Walter Onnoghen, chief justice of Nigeria (CJN).Onnoghen had appointed Ayo Salami, a former president of the appeal court, as the chairman of the committee.Speaking to journalists after a special court [...]
The committee set up to review the quit notice given to Igbo people in the north met on Monday with no outcome of their deliberations yet.Leaders of the northern coalition groups and representatives of the Igbo resident in the north set up the committee.According to a statement issued at the end of the meeting, the committee is extending its deliberations [...]
The Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) has vowed to punish those behind the building collapse at Kano State University of Science and Technology (KUST), Wudil, and the Federal Polytechnic, Oko, Anambra state.The pledge was made when the committee, which was set up to investigate the incidents, submitted its report to Abdullahi Bichi Baffa, executive secretary of TETFund, with the agency [...]
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