A legal practitioner, Mr Christopher Atsen has applauded the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) for providing swift resolutions to challenges encountered while interfacing with its Registration Portal. According to the Head of Media Section, Public Affairs Unit of CAC, Rasheed Mahe in a statement issued on Sunday in Abuja, the commendation is contained in a letter written to the CAC. Atsen, a principal partner of Springfield Law Practice based in Kaduna, expressed delight at the efficiency, professionalism, and promptness demonstrated by the CAC through its portal. He recalled his initial reach out to the Commission’s customer service and the Special Projects…
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The Public and Private Development Centre (PPDC), a non – governmental organisation has expressed concern over the delays in detainees trail in the Nigerian judiciary system. Mr Kenechukwu Agwu, the Senior Programme Manager, Access to Justice, PPDC, expressed the concern in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja. Agwu also said that the Centre would provide legal services to 1,750 detainees across the five states the projects were implemented. He listed the states to include, Adamawa, Plateau, Nasarawa, Kaduna and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). The project manager said that about 80 per cent of inmates…
Senator Aniekan Bassey, a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), former Vice Chairman of the Conference of Speakers of State Legislatures in Nigeria, and former Speaker of the Akwa Ibom State House of Assembly, is the Senator representing the Akwa Ibom North-East Senatorial District and an Executive Member of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (Africa Region). He is the Deputy Chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture Production Services and Rural Development. In this interview with The Guide, he speaks on his legacies as a Speaker and contributions to the Akwa Ibom Project. Excerpts: How did you…
The Senior Special Assistant to Akwa Ibom State Governor on Brand Management and Marketing, Mr Raphael Edem has assured that the ARISE Agenda of the state governor, Pastor Umo Eno will open up the state for tech opportunities. Mr Edem, who was the keynote speaker at the Akwa Ibom Tech Week with the theme “Africa’s new tech destination”, said Tuesday that ICT is a critical part of the governor’s economic policy as the state is committed to exploring the enormous opportunities in digital technology. “Few months ago His Excellency hosted a dialogue where he opened his blueprint to inputs and…
…Joe Ajaero was picked up from the NLC State Council Secretariat by heavily armed policemen in Owerri The President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Joe Ajaero, has been arrested in Owerri, the Imo State capital. Ajaero was picked up from the NLC State Council Secretariat by heavily armed policemen in Owerri and taken to an unknown destination. The Head of Media at the NLC Headquarters, Benson Uper, made it known to journalists via WhatSapp message. The NLC is leading a statewide protest and strike in Owerri over what it described as lack of respect for workers, unpaid salaries and…
The appellate court held that the tribunal was wrong for setting aside its order foreclosing Senator Suswam from calling further witnesses in his petition. The Court of Appeal Abuja has set aside the ruling of the Benue State National Assembly Election Petition Tribunal which allowed Senator Gabriel Suswam to call 11 additional witnesses in his petition against Senator Emmanuel Udende, after he had been foreclosed from calling further witnesses. The appellate court held that the tribunal was wrong for setting aside its order foreclosing Senator Suswam from calling further witnesses in his petition. Consequently, the three-member panel of the Court…
The Peoples Democratic Party’s presidential candidate in the February 25, 2023 election, Atiku Abubakar, addressed a press conference in Abuja on Monday over the Supreme Court’s verdict to dismiss his appeal for lacking in merit and affirmed the victory of President Bola Tinubu. Below is the full text of his speech: Someone asked me what I would do if I lost my election petition appeal at the Supreme Court. In response, I said that as long as Nigeria wins, the struggle would have been worth the while. By that, I meant that the bigger loss would not be mine but…
I finally caught up with Senator Ekong Sampson last Monday in Abuja. Scheduling a meeting with him is an arduous task given his busy agenda. He represents Akwa Ibom South in the 10th Senate, is the Vice Chairman of Basic & Secondary Education Committee; Vice Chairman of FCT Committee and a member of about 14 other committees, including NDDC and Appropriation. Although he is a fresh man in the Senate, Sampson is not new to the grounds of the National Assembly. Between 1999 and 2003, he served as a legislative aide to Senator Udoma Udo Udoma, who was then Chairman…
Some Nigerians who applied for international passports have accused personnel of the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS) Abuja passport office, of massive extortion. The passport applicants said in spite of recent directive of the Minister of Interior, Dr Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo to the immigration authorities to sanitise the system, nothing much has changed. The applicants who spoke in separate interviews with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), lamented that they were made to pay various sums of money by NIS officials before getting the travel document. They also alleged that the electronic passport application system has been compromised, forcing those who followed…
The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has filed a criminal charge against the suspended Dean of Faculty of Law, University of Calabar (UNICAL), Professor Cyril Ndifon. This followed the Commission’s conclusion of investigation into the professor’s alleged gross misconducts against some of his students. Some female law students at the faculty had in August staged a protest and accused Ndifon of sexual harassment. Subsequently, the university management suspended Ndifon and constituted a panel to investigate the allegations against the embattled law professor. The ICPC, alongside the Department of State Services (DSS) on October 4, 2023 arrested…