Dangote Cement Plc (DCP), a subsidiary of Dangote Industries Limited, at the weekend in Lagos signed a landmark agreement with Sinoma International Engineering for the construction of 12 new projects and expansion of others across Africa. The landmark agreement, with an estimated investment of over $1 billion, reinforces the Company’s long-term growth strategy and aligns...
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CIARB NIGERIA, LAW SCHOOL CLASS ’93, OTHERS HAIL IDORNIGIE AT 75
Senior lawyers and arbitrators have been pouring encomiums on eminent chartered arbitrator, Prof. Paul Obo Idornigie SAN as he attained 75 years last Tuesday. Idornigie is a Chartered Secretary, Chartered Arbitrator and current member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) in The Hague, Netherlands. He was an Acting Director-General of the Nigerian Institute of...
AKWA OKUKO: ‘WE WON’T APPEAL PRISON SENTENCE,’ SAYS DEFENCE LAWYER
A High Court sitting in Awka, Anambra State, on Friday, presided over by Justice Jude Obiora, sentenced a native doctor, Chidozie Nwangwu, popularly known as “Akwa Okuko Tiwaraki”, to 11 months’ imprisonment for his involvement in ritual practices known as “oke ite” and related offences. Nwangwu was arraigned alongside two other native doctors, Eke Hit...
ANXIETY, OYO HIGH COURT COUNTERS FHC, OKAYS PDP’S IBADAN CONVENTION
An Oyo State High Court sitting in Ibadan has validated the Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) 2025 national elective convention, held in the city on November 15 and 16, 2025, and recognised the leadership of the Tanimu Turaki-led National Working Committee (NWC) as authentic. The judgment, delivered today by Justice Ladiran Akintola of Court 5, granted...
‘IT’S MORE EFFECTIVE TO PREVENT THAN PROSECUTE FRAUD,’ SAYS NBA PRESIDENT
NEWS RELEASE “Forging a Fraud-Resistant Nigeria: NBA President Hosts CIFCFIN Leadership on Strategic Anti-Corruption Partnership” The President of the Nigerian Bar Association, Mazi Afam Osigwe, SAN, has received in audience the leadership of the Chartered Institute of Forensic and Certified Fraud Investigators of Nigeria (CIFCFIN) at the NBA National Secretariat in a high-level engagement focused...
EDO: ‘MY COUSIN WAS ALMOST HIT BY BULLET DURING ATTACK ON PETER OBI,’ SAYS AKPATA
Barely a few days after some chieftains of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), including Mr. Peter Obi, came under attack in Edo State, former Nigerian Bar Association president and Labour Party (LP) stalwart, Olumide Akpata, has recounted how he and Obi narrowly escaped harm. Speaking on Channels Television’s “Politics Today” on Wednesday, Akpata said he...
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‘NAFDAC HAS POWER TO ENFORCE SACHET ALCOHOL BAN,’ HEALTH MINISTRY TELLS COURT
The Federal Ministry of Health and Social Welfare (FMOHSW) has told the Federal High Court in Lagos that the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) is authorised by law to enforce the ban on the production and sale of alcoholic beverages in sachets, PET bottles, and glass bottles below 200ml. According...
BREAKING: PETER OBI ESCAPES ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT BY GUNMEN
Presidential aspirant of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), Peter Obi, has been attacked in Benin, Edo State capital. Obi confirmed the attack in a video now trending on social media. National coordinator of the Obidient Movement, Yunusa Tanko, told journalists that Obi and John Odigie-Oyegun, among other ADC leaders, were in Edo State to witness...
TINUBU ‘FIRES’ IGP EGBETOKUN, APPOINTS TUNDE DISU
The Inspector General of Police (IGP), Kayode Egbetokun, has resigned from office at the instruction of President Bola Tinubu. Vanguard gathered from a source in the Presidency on Tuesday that Egbetokun is to be replaced by AIG Tunji Disu, the Assistant Inspector General of Police in charge of Force CID Annex, Lagos. Egbetokun was asked...






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