Our Reporter A magistrate sitting in Ajegunle, Apapa, Lagos State has discharged a 58-year-old woman, Leticia Ugwu, charged with beating and biting a pregnant woman. The Magistrate Court discharged the accused for lack of interest by complainant. The defendant was charged to court on November 13, 2018 on one count of assault, which she pleaded not guilty. While the complainant …

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–Firm Sues For Peace With FG Over Contract Dispute  Tayo Olanipekun Nigeria may lose nearly $9 billion worth of its foreign assets following an enforcement application to US and UK courts by Process and Industrial Development (P &ID), a British firm in a legal dispute with the Federal Government. The court case arose out of the failure of a contract …

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— As Afreximbank Chief Says Hosting Agreement Signed Bayo Akinloye The second Intra-African Trade Fair (IATF2020) scheduled to take place in Kigali from September 1 to 7, 2020, will target the execution of Intra-African trade deals worth more than $40 billion, Prof. Benedict Oramah, President of the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank), announced today.  Prof. Oramah was speaking in Kigali at the …

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Tayo Olanipekun The United States Embassy in Nigeria has announced an indefinite suspension of interview waiver program otherwise known as the “Dropbox ” for applicants seeking visa renewal. The U.S. Mission to Nigeria said in a statement to National Wire on Tuesday that it was suspending indefinitely the process after the close of business on may 14 and visa applications …

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Tayo Olanipekun The U.S President, Donald Trump, has said the trade war with China will benefit “poor and starving countries in the form of humanitarian assistance.” In a flurry of tweets on Friday morning, he said the over $100bn his country would make from the tariff slammed on goods coming from China would enable the U.S buy more agricultural products …

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Bayo Akinloye A total of 894 children, including 106 girls, were released from the ranks of the Civilian Joint Task Force (CJTF) in Maiduguri, north-east Nigeria today, as part of its commitment to end and prevent the recruitment and use of children. The CJTF is a local militia that helps the Nigerian security forces in the fight against insurgency in north-east …

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Bayo Akinloye A record 41.3 million people are displaced inside their own countries because of conflict and violence, according to a new report by the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) of the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC).  The number of people living in internal displacement worldwide as of the end of 2018 is the highest it has ever been, according to …

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Tayo Olanipekun Agencies of the Nigerian government assisted the United States of America in the arrest and successful extradition of a Pakistani national charged with drug trafficking and money laundering, U.S Mission to Nigeria has said. The Nigerian Federal Ministry of Justice with the prosecutors from the Central Authority Unit (CAU) and the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) made …

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–As Nigeria Drops In World Press Freedom Ranking Tayo Olanipekun Vice President Yemi Osinbajo and Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode, over the weekend urged the media see the need to always adhere to the code of ethics to preserve the sanctity of the profession. They both spoke at the 2019 Biennial Convention of the Nigerian Guild of Editors (NGE) …

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Tayo Olanipekun Strengthened policy environment through the implementation of more liberal and clearer policies is key to attracting more foreign investments into the Nigerian economy. This assertion was made by the Chief Economist for North and West Africa, Oxford Economics, Cobus de Hart. Hart said this when he was a guest speaker at the Institute of Chartered Accountant of Nigeria/Institute …

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