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The Lagos State Government has asked the Supreme Court to determine the constitutionality of virtual court hearings. Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami (SAN) and the National Assembly are the respondents in the suit. It said, among others, that divergent views on whether or not virtual court proceedings are lawful, is causing apprehension over proceedings already ... Read More »

Civil society group, the Human and Environmental Development Agenda, has petitioned the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission to investigate and prosecute Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Mudashiru Obasa, over allegations of corruption and financial mismanagement. In the petition, which was also sent to President Muhammadu Buhari, Chairman of HEDA, Olarewaju Suraju, said Obasa used fictitious companies as ... Read More »

Officials of Ecobank, Wema Bank and Polaris on Friday denied that Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Hon. Mudashiru Obasa is operating multiple bank accounts with them. Some representatives of the banks spoke before the 9-man House Adhoc Committee on fact finding and investigation on the corruption allegations against Speaker Mudashiru Obasa being circulated on the social media ... Read More »

The Lagos State Government, through the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources, is working towards local production of affordable smart meters to improve electricity supply in the state. Commissioner for Energy and Mineral Resources, Olalere Odusote, an engineer, said the state was targetting innovative metering solutions. He spoke at a briefing on the 365 days of Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu in ... Read More »

..Diri set to form Exco THE Bayelsa State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal has ordered Deputy Governor Lawrence Oborawharievwo Ewhrudjakpo to appear before it tomorrow to produce the original copy of his disputed certificate. The tribunal’s order followed a subpoena earlier issued on Ewhrudjakpo to appear and produce the original of the exemption certificate issued to him in 1998 by the ... Read More »

A clergyman, Reverend Emmanuel Saba Bileya, and his wife, Julianna, have been killed by yet to be identified gunmen in Mararraba community in Donga local government area of Tabara state. The spokesperson of the state police command, ASP David Misal, who confirmed this to LIB, said the pastor, who is the Senior Pastor at Reform Church and his wife were ... Read More »

A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has ordered the Nigerian Correctional Services to immediately release a former Governor of Abia State, Senator Orji Uzor Kalu. Kalu is in the Kuje Correctional Service centre following his conviction last December for looting N7.65billion belonging to Abia State. Justice Mohammad Liman granted the lawmaker’s application for release moved by his counsel Lateef ... Read More »

The Police in Edo have arrested one person suspected to have been part of the gang that raped and killed a 100-level Microbiology student of UNIBEN, Uwaila Vera Omozuwa. Chairperson of Nigerians in Diaspora Commission, Abike Dabiri-Erewa, confirmed the development on her twitter handle @abikedabiri. She hinted the police carried out the arrest through the thumbprint of the suspect on ... Read More »

The family of Mr. and Mrs Harrison Nwachukwu has been thrown into mourning, following the stealing of their 10-month old baby boy by a strange couple on Friday in Umuahia, Abia State. The shock has left the nursing mother acting strangely. Narrating how the child was stolen in is mother’s hair saloon Mr. Harrison a staff of Federal Road Safety ... Read More »

  The Department of State Service (DSS) confirmed on Monday that its investigation revealed alteration in the exemption certificate issued by the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) to the Deputy Governor of Bayelsa State, Senator Lawrence Oborawharievwo Ewhrudjakpo. The Head, Legal Department, DSS, Abdulsalam Ibrahim, who represented DSS’ Director General, told the Bayelsa State Governorship Election Tribunal in Abuja that ... Read More »