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The National Industrial Court of Nigeria (NICN) has been asked to set aside Governor Dapo Abiodun’s appointment of new members of the Ogun State Judicial Service Commission (OSJSC). The application, DAILY POST learnt, was made by a former member of the commission, Abayomi Omoyinmi. The claimant, it was gathered, was appointed a member of the Commission through a letter by former Governor Ibikunle Amosun on February 2012, for a five-year tenure “as stipulated in the Constitution” and same was renewed by another letter dated January 30, 2018 pursuant to Section 199 (1) (C) of same law and to end January 2023. However, the commission was reportedly dissolved by Gov Abiodun after his inauguration. Consequently, Omoyinmi, in a Motion on Notice brought pursuant to Order 22 of the NICN Civil Procedure Rules in Suit no: NICN/AB/09/2019 prayed the court for two orders: “An order setting aside the appointments, constitution and inauguration of the new members performed by the ...

The appeal court had annulled the February election of Melaye and ordered a fresh one which held on November 16, an exercise that was declared inconclusive while a supplementary poll fixed for November 30. Kola Ologbondiyan, spokesman of the PDP, while speaking on Saturday expressed worry that INEC might not conduct a free and fair election. He said, “It is public knowledge that all accredited local and international observers, including the Civil Society Situation Room, have declared that the elections did not meet the minimum standard for credible election and have unanimously called for outright cancelation. ” “There is indeed nothing to indicate that more people will not be massacred in the proposed Kogi West Senatorial re-run election. It is therefore doubtful if Nigerians will be prepared to participate in that re-run given their sordid experiences in the last election. “There is already a growing consensus across the nation that participating in elections by INE...

Nigeria has launched its first national sexual offenders register, setting up a database of those convicted for sexual violence in a move seen as an important step towards clamping down on abuse. The "Sexual Offender Register" will contain the names of all those prosecuted for sexual violence since 2015. One in four Nigerian women are sexually abused before they turn 18, with the majority of cases of sexual abuse in country are not prosecuted, according to the  United Nations children agency UNICEF .  At Monday's launch in the capital, Abuja, Sadiya Farouq,  minister for humanitarian affairs, said  "the register will serve as a strategy to stop those engaged in violence against women". She added that a humanitarian and security crisis in northeast Nigeria caused by a decade-long armed campaign had seen a rise in cases of sexual abuse which needed to be addressed.  The register will be available online to better help the public, state b...

Is on the news that a Nigerian senator supporting the regulation of social media awarded a multi-million contract without following due process when he was a minister, the anti-graft agency, EFCC, said on Monday. Abba Moro, the former interior minister, is being prosecuted by the EFCC at the Federal High Court, Abuja. The agency said the interior ministry, then under Mr Moro, did not follow due process in the contract award for the 2014 Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) recruitment exercise that claimed the lives of many applicants. PREMIUM TIMES reported how Mr Moro last week urged his colleagues in the Senate to support the bill which seeks to regulate the use of social media in Nigeria. In his contribution during the debate by senators, Mr Moro said lawmakers have in one way or the other been victims on social media. “I think all of us here have been victims of the spread of falsehoods and the manipulation of the internet has caused a lot of havoc to some of us. And...

Gov. Zulum sacks Borno Head of Service Alhaji Usman Shuwa, the Secretary to the State Government (SSG), made the disclosure in a statement on Tuesday in Maiduguri. Shuwa disclosed that the governor also approved the appointment of Mr Simon Malgwi, as the new HOS, adding that the appointment was with immediate effect. “Gov. Babagana Zulum has relieved Mohammed Hassan of his appointment as the HOS with immediate effect. “He has accordingly approved the appointment of Barrister Simon Malgwi, as the new HOS,” he said.

Destiny decays when character declines. The Athenian statesman, Critias, said: “If you discipline yourself within, you will be less vulnerable to injury from outside.” In life, you need more than a willing spirit to fulfill destiny; you need a conquered flesh. Self-discipline is the ability to do what is right even if you don’t feel like it. Living a principle-centered life is the hallmark of winners. Great people are greatly principled. The core secret of winners is held up in the belief that to go up in life, there are things to give up. There are two ways of learning in life: By ‘instruction’ or by ‘destruction.’ Winners don’t just show up suddenly; they are all products of a rigorous and disciplined system. Alan Armstrong said: “Champions do not become champions when they win the event, but in hours, weeks, months and years, they spend preparing for it. The victorious performance itself is merely the demonstration of their championship character.” Lao-Tzu said: “He who ...

- Former President, Goodluck Jonathan has replied his critics who accused him of handing over a nation at the verge of collapse to his successor, President Muhammadu Buhari. - Jonathan recounted the achievements of his government to include, handing over a country that produced the richest man in Africa. - Jonathan said, “I took over a Nigeria that was the second largest economy in Africa with a GDP of $270.5 billion in 2009,  - I handed over a Nigeria that had grown to become the largest economy in Africa and the 24th largest economy in the World with a GDP of $574 billion. - I handed over dollar exchange rate of N187 per Dollar official rate in our banks, compared to their N360 now official rate for a Dollar -“I inherited a Nigeria in which the trains were not working, and handed over a Nigeria in which citizens can safely travel by trains again. - I also inherited a country where illiteracy rate particularly in the Northern part was alarming. - I handed over a ...