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Abuja – Justice Abdul Kafarati, a Judge of the Federal High Court, on Thursday in Abuja threatened to discharge the 24 suspected Boko Haram members standing trial before the court. The judge, who granted the police a last adjournment for Sept. 18, said that the prosecution counsel had not showed diligence in prosecuting the case. “I should have discharged the ...

Former Chairman of the House of Representatives Ad-Hoc Committee on Monitoring of Subsidy Regime, Mr. Farouk Lawan, made a dramatic reappearance at the House on Thursday, the first since the $3m bribery scandal involving him broke out. Chairman of Zenon Oil, Mr. Femi Otedola, had claimed that he gave $620,000 bribe to the lawmaker to remove his companies from the ...

By Ogunjimi James Taiwo “True peace is not merely the absence of tension; it is the presence of justice” – Martin Luther King Jr. Today, June 21st, 2012 should have been the day when new executives of the Nigerian Association of Science Students(NASS) are sworn in. Unfortunately, due to the antics and acts of desperation on the part of the ...

The Swiss-made solar-powered plane, Solar Impulse, took off early Thursday from Rabat airport in a fresh bid to cross the Moroccan desert, after being foiled by rough conditions last week. The aircraft, which flies without a drop of fuel, took off at 7:05 am (0605 GMT), piloted by Andre Borschberg, and flew away into a clear sky headed for Ouarzazate ...

Some retail business enterprises owned by non-Ghanaians have started folding up in compliance to a directive from the Ghana Union Traders Association to foreign retailers. GUTA is seeking to enforce Act 478 of the Ghana Investment Promotion Centre (GIPC)that bars foreigners from petty trading, hawking or selling from a kiosk at any place reserved as a market. The law stipulates ...