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Justice A. Dagat of a Federal High Court sitting in Maiduguri has convicted and sentenced one Bana Alhaji Lawan to one year imprisonment.


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Justice Kehinde Ogundare of a Federal High Court, sitting in Lagos, on Monday, ordered the final forfeiture of a parcel of land measuring 2348.072 square metres in Enugu State recovered from the duo of Babatunde Said Adeola and Kingsley Ifeanyi Adonu to the Federal Government.


read more: https://frontiernewsng.com/court-orders-final-forfeiture-of-telecom-experts-property-in-enugu/

Minister of Defence, Alhaji Abubakar Badaru, has tasked the National Defence Space Administrators to embrace the spirit of collaboration, innovation, and forward-thinking to explore new ideas, share best practices, and forge partnerships that will enable us to confront the challenges of tomorrow with confidence and resilience.


read more: https://frontiernewsng.com/defence-minister-tasks-space-administrators-on-innovation-collaboration/

Delta State Government, Monday, commenced demolition of illegal structures built on lands belonging to Dennis Osadebay University, Anwai-Asaba.


read more: https://frontiernewsng.com/delta-begins-demolition-of-illegal-structures-on-govt-land/

President Bola Tinubu on Monday launched a campaign to promote inclusive education, skill development, and gender equity.


read more: https://frontiernewsng.com/tinubu-launches-we-are-equal-education-campaign-in-nigeria/

Governor Douye Diri of Bayelsa State, has again called for a review of the country’s revenue derivation formula in line with the practice of fiscal federalism, as be bags award of “Icon of Unity and Social Justice.”


read more: https://frontiernewsng.com/gov-diri-honoured-by-ijaws-in-us-restates-call-for-fiscal-federalism/

President Bola Tinubu’s economic reforms have started bearing fruits, Minister of Budget and Economic Planning, Senator Abubakar Bagudu, has said, pointing out that the measures have restored faith in the country’s economy.


read more: https://frontiernewsng.com/tinubus-reforms-bearing-fruits-says-minister-of-budget-bagudu/

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, has recorded a harvest of arrests, as it nabbed a 75-year-old grandpa in Ekiti, 70-year-old grandma in Benue for illicit drugs dealing and destroys 11, 636.185kg cannabis in Edo forest.

read more: https://frontiernewsng.com/ndlea-arrests-grandpa-in-ekiti-grandma-in-benue-for-drugs-dealing

BudgIT, Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, SERAP, and 136 Nigerians have dragged the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, before a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, “over its failure to withdraw the patently unlawful ‘Circular’ directing all banks and other financial institutions to deduct from customers’ account a ‘cybersecurity levy.’


read more: https://frontiernewsng.com/budgit-serap-136-others-ask-court-to-stop-cbn-on-cybersecurity-levy/

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has told the All Progressives Congress, APC, to wake up from its day-dreaming of taking over Rivers State by its plot to impeach Governor Siminalayi Fubara of the state.

read more: https://frontiernewsng.com/bury-plans-to-forceful-take-over-rivers-state-pdp-tells-apc/

Mr. Peter Obi, Labour Party, LP, presidential candidate in the February 25, 2023, poll, has called on the Federal Government to address the root causes of decline in investor confidence in the country, following Microsoft Nigeria announcement of plan to shut down its innovation centre in Lagos and cut 200 jobs.


read more: https://frontiernewsng.com/fg-must-address-root-causes-of-decline-in-investor-confidence-peter-obi/

Presidential candidate of Labour Party, LP, in the February 25, 2023, poll, Mr. Peter Obi, has said that the Cybersecurity Levy imposed on Nigerians was proof that the Federal Government was more interested in milking a dying economy instead of nurturing it to recovery and growth.


read more: https://frontiernewsng.com/cybersecurity-levy-proof-fg-more-interested-in-milking-a-dying-economy-obi/

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, SERAP, has urged President Bola Tinubu to direct the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, to withdraw the cybersecurity levy on Nigerians, as it patently violates the provisions of the Nigerian Constitution 1999 [as amended] and the country’s international human rights obligations and commitments.”


read more: https://frontiernewsng.com/withdraw-cbn-cybersecurity-levy-on-nigerians-serap-tells-tinubu/

President of Nigerian Bar Assassination, NBA, Mr. Yakubu Maikyau, SAN, has set up a seven member elections appeal committee to consider appeals and petitions of candidates disqualified by the Electoral Committee of the Nigerian Bar Association, ECNBA, from the July 20, 2024, national elections of the association.


read more: https://frontiernewsng.com/nba-july-national-elections-maikyau-set-up-7-member-appeal-cttee/

The Labour Party, LP, presidential candidate in the February 25, 2023, poll, Mr. Peter Obi, has expressed sadness and shock over the deportation of follow Nigerians by the Lagos State government.


read more: https://frontiernewsng.com/deportation-of-follow-nigerians-by-lagos-govt-sad-shocking-peter-obi/

Chairman of Federal Inland Revenue Service, FIRS, Zacch Adedeji, has challenged tax administrators in Africa to look inwards for local solutions to challenges of the continent rather than turning to the Western world for salvation.


read more: https://frontiernewsng.com/firs-boss-adedeji-tasks-african-tax-administrators-on-local-solutions/

Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, has queried the absence of President Bola Tinubu and his vice, Kashim Shettima from the country, wondering who was in charge of the country in the absence of the two highest officers in the land.


read more: https://frontiernewsng.com/where-is-tinubu-shettima-who-is-in-charge-atiku-asks/

Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, has queried the absence of President Bola Tinubu and his vice, Kashim Shettima from the country, wondering who was in charge of the country in the absence of the two highest officers in the land.


read more: https://frontiernewsng.com/where-is-tinubu-shettima-who-is-in-charge-atiku-asks/

Former Anambra State governor, Mr. Peter Obi, has mourned former Nigerian Minister of Education, Mr. Kenneth Gbagi, who passed on on Saturday.


read more: Peter Obi mourns former Minister of State, Education, Kenneth Gbagi

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, has arrested five members of a drug syndicate with networks in parts of Nigeria, South Africa and Thailand.


read more: https://frontiernewsng.com/ndlea-arrests-5-smashes-intl-drug-syndicate-seizes-loud-consignments/

Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State, has commended Mr. Ezekiel Obazele, a worker in the state, who was nominated as Nigeria’s best procurement officer.


read more: https://frontiernewsng.com/obaseki-commends-edo-worker-nominated-as-nigerias-best-e-procurement-officer/

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, SERAP, has dragged the 36 state governors and Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, Mr. Nyesom Wike before a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, “over their failure to account for N5.9 trillion and $4.6 billion loans obtained by their states and the FCT, and to publish copies of the loan agreements, including details and locations of projects executed with the loans.”


read more: https://frontiernewsng.com/failing-to-account-for-n5-9trn-4-6bn-loans-serap-sues-govs-wike-others/

The recent minimum wage of N70,000 announced by Edo State government has been described as a Greek gift hurriedly put together because of the governorship election coming up on September 21, 2024, in the state.


read more: https://frontiernewsng.com/dont-sell-your-votes-over-n70000-minimum-wage-group-tells-edo-people/

Labour Party, LP, presidential candidate in the February 25, 2023, poll, Mr. Peter Obi, has berated the Federal Government for going ahead with the controversial Lagos-Calabar coastal highway project, despite the current situation in the country.
He wondered why the Tinubu administration was embarking on an expensive new highway project, when there were close to 50 abandoned federal highway projects across the country.


read more: https://frontiernewsng.com/lagos-calabar-highway-a-misplaced-priority-peter-obi/

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has restated its commitment to the fight against cyber crimes, stressing that the crimes have become an organised threat and onslaught to the development of nations.


read more: https://frontiernewsng.com/efcc-restates-commitment-to-fight-against-cyber-crimes/

Governor Peter Mbah of Enugu State, has described the recent attack that resulted in the death of four natives in Nimbo community in Uzo-Uwani Local Government Area of the state as unacceptable to his administration, vowing that enough was enough, as government would track down and bring the attackers to book.


read more: https://frontiernewsng.com/nimbo-killings-gov-mbah-says-govt-will-track-down-attackers/

The Lucky Aiyedatiwa Campaign Organisation Foot Soldiers Independent Council, LACO-FSIC, on Sunday, expressed concern over the safety of campaigners under its aegis, following the murder of its Ward 10 Coordinator in Supare, Akoko Southwest Local Government Area of Ondo State, Mr. Alaba Excel.

read more: https://frontiernewsng.com/ondo-murder-aiyedatiwa-campaign-group-worries-over-safety-of-members/

President Bola Tinubu has said that his administration was investing in technology that is tailored towards ensuring transparency and accountability in government and accelerating public-sector performance and service delivery to the Nigerian people.


read more:https://frontiernewsng.com/were-investing-in-tech-to-ensure-transparency-tinubu-tells-bill-gates/

A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, and another one in Lagos, have sentenced two notorious drug kingpins Uwaezuoke Christian and Agbo Prince to life imprisonments.


read more: https://frontiernewsng.com/2-notorious-drug-kingpins-sentenced-to-life-imprisonment/

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, SERAP, has dragged Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited before a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja over “failure to account for and explain the whereabouts of the alleged missing $2.04 billion and N164 billion oil revenues.”


read more: https://frontiernewsng.com/missing-2-04bn-n164bn-oil-revenues-serap-sues-nnpc/