The accused persons Justice Ayo Emmanuel of a Federal High Court sitting in Ibadan, Oyo State, has remanded the Director-General of the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, IITA, Ibadan, Professor Benjamin Adefemi Ogunbodede, and three others in Agodi prison in Ibadan. The quartet were arraigned on Thursday, October 30, 2014 by the Economic and Financial…
Following the withdrawal of security personnel attached to Speaker of the House of Representatives, Aminu Tambuwal, by the Acting Inspector General of Police, Suleiman Abba, the Nigeria Bar Association, NBA, has asked the police boss to reverse the order. In a statement signed by its National President, Augustine Alegeh, the lawyers’ body described the situation…
Five members of the Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, on Saturday evening, drowned at a river in Bayelsa State. It was reported that seven other members of the party were rescued from the same boat. The party members were coming from a ward congress held in the state when the unfortunate incident occurred. Among the survivors…