South African Policeman Sentenced To 30 Years For Killing Nigerian

    A South African police constable, Austin Reynold, has been sentenced to 30 years in jail by a court for killing a Nigerian man living in that country. Twenty-four-year Reynold was accused of killing Ebuka Okoli in Durban, a coastal city in Kwa Zulu-Natal province in South Africa.

Court orders forfeiture of Bukola Saraki’s Ilorin houses to Federal Government

    Justice Rilwan Aikawa of a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, has ordered the temporary forfeiture of two houses in Ilorin, Kwara State belonging to former Senate President, Bukola Saraki, to the Federal government

Federal Government is planning to transfer Omoyele Sowore to prison - Femi Falana

 

    Femi Falana has raised a fresh alarm on plans by the Department of State Services to transfer detained activists, Omoyele Sowore and Olawale Bakare popularly known as Mandate, to solitary confinement at a correctional center. 

   Sowore's lawyer revealed this in a letter dated December 1, 2019 and addressed to the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami (SAN), requesting him to direct the DSS to release his clients.   

  Falana said that the Nigerian Government through the DSS had applied to the Federal High Court in Abuja for an order of transfer of the activists to a secluded prison where they would not have access to their lawyers and family members.

Governor Bello Sacks All Political Appointees

     Kogi State governor, Alhaji Yahaya Bello has sacked all his political appointees,few days after the governorship election.

Taraba gets new speaker

  The Taraba State House of Assembly on Monday, elected Joseph Kunini as the new Speaker of the Assembly. Also elected is Hamman-Adama Abdulahi, as the Deputy Speaker.

Police allegedly storm Nnamdi Kanu’s lawyer’s home, two feared dead

   Report emanating from Anambra State says officials of the Nigeria Police Force have stormed the home of Ifeanyi Ejiofor, lawyer to the founder, Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu.