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Professor Oluwatoyin Ogundipe in reacting to the news of his removal from office as The Vice-chancellor of the University of Lagos has considered the news as illegal and cannot stand. Recall that, The Vc was dismissed in a meeting that was chaired by the UNILAG Pro-Chancellor and chairman of the...

The Vice President Prof Yemi Osinbajo has urged lawyers and stakeholders in the justice sector to be prepared for the times ahead by finding alternative and better ways of delivering legal and associated services. He made this known on Thursday in his keynote at the Virtual Law Pavilion Technology Conference...

There are more than 20 million people living in Lagos. So how best do you decongest? Extort, sorry tax people! In the space of four days, the Lagos State government has come up with barrage of taxes aimed at sending everyone back to their villages. Here’s the koko: First, there...

An Upper Shari’a court sitting at Kofar Kudu in Kano on Wednesday sentenced Mati Audu, a 70- year-old, to death by stoning after he was found guilty of defiling a 12-year-old girl. Audu, a resident of Falsa in Tsanyawa Local Government Area confessed to committing the crime before the court....

Sexual Harassment - Five hundred and eighty-six or 60 per cent of 981 sexual offence cases in Lagos State involve the defilement of minors, according to Yinka Adeyemi, the Director, Lagos State Directorate of Public Prosecution. “There are 981 awaiting trial inmates for sexual offences at the Correctional Centres in...

The Lagos State Ministry of Transportation has released regulatory documents for taxi operators and ride-hailing companies like Uber, Bolt, and several others. These regulations are set to be enforced from August 20, 2020. Lagos State Government was planning to regulate the e-hailing sector. This was two months after its ban...

The free web-based encyclopedia Wikipedia has updated its list of failed countries across the world and Nigeria has been added to the new list. Wikipedia gives an array of information on a wide variety of subjects described a failed state as a political body that has disintegrated to a point...

US President Donald Trump has finally fulfilled his promise to send ventilators to Nigeria. Trump, in a telephone conversation with President Muhammadu Buhari in April, pledged to support Nigeria’s response to Covid-19 by sending ventilators. Picture by REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque However, the ventilators got to Nigeria five months after the US...