The Nigerian Bar Association, NBA,Firday, vowed to drag the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, to court should it insist on going ahead with the proposed introduction of N5000 currency note. The legal body which made the declaration in a communiqué it issued at the end of its 52nd annual conference in Abuja yesterday maintained that the idea was nothing but “a shallow,...
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A former member of the House of Representatives, Mr. Dino Melaye, on Wednesday in Abuja called on the National Assembly to commence processes for the impeachment of President Goodluck Jonathan over the fuel subsidy scam. According to him, the delay in the prosecution of the suspended Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on fuel subsidy, Mr. Farouk Lawan,...
Nigerian Ambassador to Austria Her Excellency, Maria Oyeyinka Laose led an Austrian high delegation and had signed a treaty that any black person whose identity in Austria is in doubt would be deported to Nigeria. Recently, a father of 2 ½ year old son was allegedly deported without official verification and this has created a lot fear in other Nigerians who have stayed...
ANALYSIS The week’s uncertainty over the formation of a government in Lesotho following its May 2012 National Assembly (NA) elections, whose results inferred a hung parliament scenario, has come to end. The 120-member parliament was sworn in yesterday, Wednesday 6 June 2012, after the outgoing Prime Minister Pakalitha Mosisili and his party the Democratic Congress...
A report by the ‘Egyptian Assembly for Democratic Development’ confirmed on Wednesday that the last hours of the first day of Egypt’s presidential election witnessed a peak in violations. These violations included trucks transferring voters to polls and tension and confrontation between supporters. The council received a large number of reports and complaints...
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