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December 4, 2024 No Responses

Senate Passes Investments, Securities Bill 2024

In a major boost to the operations of the Securities and Exchange Commission(SEC) and the Nigerian capital market, the Senate has passed the Investments and Securities Bill 2024.The Investments and Securities Bill, meant to repeal the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Act,...

November 19, 2024 No Responses

Okpebholo Signs N486bn Supplementary Budget Into Law

Edo State Governor, Monday Okpebholo has assented to a N485 billion revised supplementary budget passed by the Edo State House of Assembly. Okpebholo signed the revised budget on Monday in Benin City, the Edo State capital. The governor while reacting...

November 8, 2024 No Responses

Gender-Based Discrimination: Hassan Bello Offers Free Legal Support For Maritime Women

The Principal Partner of Justicia Legal Practitioners, Barr. Hassan Bello has offered free legal counsel and support to Nigerian women in maritime who are victims of gender-based discrimination in the workplace.Bello, who is also a former Executive Secretary o...

October 24, 2024 No Responses

Nigeria Drops Charges Against Binance Executive

The Federal government has dropped all charges against an executive at Binance Holdings, Tigran Gambaryan on health grounds. Gambaryan has been facing a money laundering trial from detention since April. A Counsel for the Economic and Financial Crimes Com...

October 23, 2024 No Responses

Shippers Council Seeks Amendment Of Act

The Executive Secretary, Nigerian Shippers Council (NSC), Pius Akutah, on Wednesday described the agency’s 1978 Act as obsolete.According to Akutah, the proposed amendment will align the agency with modern trend and development.Speaking at the Council he...

October 23, 2024 No Responses

Court Jails 43 Internet Fraudsters In Awka

The Enugu Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has secured the conviction and sentencing of forty-three (43) internet fraudsters before Justice Evelyn Anyadike of the Federal High Court sitting in Awka, Anambra State.The con...

May 21, 2024 No Responses

Contractor Admits Receiving N2.17b For No Project

A contractor, Olugbenga Obadina who is being prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC for receiving payments from the Office of the National Security Adviser, (NSA) on November 28, 2015 without any contractual agreement on Monday, May 2...

April 18, 2024 No Responses

FG Warns Against Obstruction Of EFCC From Lawful Duty

The Minister of Justice and Attorney-General of the Federation, Lateef Fagbemi, SAN has warned against obstructing the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) from carrying out its lawful duty.Fagbemi gave the warning Thursday in a statement released i...

February 13, 2024 No Responses

PDP Govs Insist On State Police

State Governors elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), on Monday, restated their position on state policing, as the solution to the country’s worsening security situation. The governors who spoke in Abuja also decried the free fall...

October 29, 2023 No Responses

Lagos Commissioner Tasks Law Officers To Brace Up For Change

Lagos Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Mr. Lawal Pedro (SAN) has charged Law Officers in the Office of the Administrator-General and Public Trustee (AGPT) to brace up for change and challenges towards achieving effective and efficient service del...

June 23, 2023 No Responses

NDLEA Arrests 122 Suspected Illicit Drug Dealers

Between June 2022 and June 2023, the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Enugu State Command, arrested 122 illicit drug dealers. The Acting State Commander, Mr Peter Ogar, said this while briefing Journalists as part of activities to ...

May 11, 2023 No Responses

CJN Harps On Sustained Fight Against Piracy

The Chief Justice of Nigeria and Chairman, Board of Governors of the National Judicial Institute, Hon. Justice Olukayode Ariwoola, has stated that the judiciary has a role to play in all legal forms of fight against piracy, noting that a...

March 13, 2023 No Responses

NDLEA Arrests 35, Intercepts Heroin

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has arrested 35 persons over alleged trafficking in various illicit drugs and substances. The Director, Media and Advocacy, NDLEA, Mr Femi Babafemi, in a statement on Sunday explained that operatives, acting on ...

September 27, 2022 No Responses

N5b Libel Suit: Out Of Court Settlement Fails, Court Adjourns To Nov15

THE out-of-court settlement embarked upon by parties in a N5 billion libel suit instituted by the immediate past Resident Electoral Commission (REC) in Akwa Ibom, Mike Igini, has failed in a Benin High Court presided over by Justice Vestee Eboreime ...