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The Nigerian Law School graduate denied access to the venue of the call to the bar ceremony earlier this week says her demand remains the need to grant approval for the use of hijab among Muslim law graduates. Firdaus Amasa, a graduate of the University...

There were revelations yesterday on why former Senate President, Senator David Mark, was arrested and quizzed by the Economic and Financial Crimes commission (EFCC). A source in Mark’s camp told our correspondent that the EFCC wanted the former Senate...

The President of the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, A. B. Mahmoud, SAN, has reacted to the development where one Amasa Firdaus was prevented from being called to Bar due to the wearing of hijab. On Tuesday, Firdaus, a graduate of the University of Ilorin...

Australia’s first gay weddings ensued on Saturday, bringing about a new era after the country’s marriage equality law came into effect this month. The historic reforms were given royal assent on December 8, the final step in a process that began with...

Three hundred Nigerian doctors left the country in 2016, the National President, Nigerian Medical Association (NMA), Prof. Mike Ogirima has revealed. Ogirima made this revelation at the association’s National Executive Council (NEC) meeting held on Thursday...

A driving instructor, Festus Udoh, has narrated how he lured a 23-year-old National Youth Service Corps member, Miss Modupe Kawose, into a bush at Mawuko, in the Odeda Local Government Area of Ogun State. He said, “We boarded a vehicle and later took...

Wife of the President, Mrs. Aisha Buhari, opted to ride in a tricycle at a public function on Wednesday. While in her husband’s home town, Daura, Katsina State, where the First Lady had inaugurated a 50-bed capacity maternal and children clinic, she also...

A baby, Vanellope Hope Wilkins, born with her heart outside her body has successfully undergone surgery to insert it back into her chest, CNN has reported. The baby who now three weeks old, was delivered by a team of 50 medical professionals at Glenfield...

The Ekiti State Police Command has dismissed a Mobile Police corporal, Ayodele Famodimu, who shot dead a commercial driver, Olabode Ojo, at a checkpoint in Oye-Ekiti on Tuesday evening. Famodimu was dismissed after undergoing an orderly room trial. He...

An attempt to criminalize and make all sex outside marriage illegal was rejected by a top Indonesian court Thursday, in a ruling that surprised many as concerns grow about rising intolerance in the world’s biggest Muslim-majority country. Five out of...

A woman has been sentenced to 30 years’ imprisonment because she suffered a miscarriage. However, her case was prosecuted as a “homicide” under El Salvador’s anti-abortion law. Teodora Vásquez has so far spent 10 years in prison, during which she had...

The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and its leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, have taken Nigeria to African Commission for Human and Peoples’ Rights in Banjul, the Gambian capital, to challenge its proscription. In a suit filed on December 5 and made available...

A lady was publicly disgraced and humiliated after she was caught stealing money from a man’s pocket in tricycle popularly known as 'Keke Napep' along Enugu road by Abiriba Street in Umuahia, the capital city of Abia state. The troubled lady was nabbed...

The Muslim rights concern group (MURIC) has reacted to the recent attack that on the private residence of the Ibrahim Magu, chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC. The group has threatened that heads will roll if anything happens...

No less than 20 vehicles and four commercial motorcycles were, on Wednesday afternoon, burnt when a tanker laden with petrol fell and spilled its content on the Festac Link Bridge in Awuwo Odofin LGA of Lagos State. A witness, Mr. Olufemi Popoola, told...

A female cashier of the Iludun-Oro Micro Finance Bank, Irepodun Local Government Area of Kwara State, Mrs. Dupe Abolarin, has been dragged before an Ilorin Magistrate Court for allegedly defrauding the bank of a sum of N4 million. The accused, a 47-year-old...

A former Facebook executive has admitted that he bans his children from using the site – saying he feels ‘tremendous guilt’ for his part in creating the service now used by billions of people. Chamath Palihapitiya, former vice president for user growth,...

Police in Enugu have had a shootout with a gang of robbers and cultists within Nsukka town and gunned down two notorious suspects. The incident happened on 9 December, according to the state’s Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), SP Ebere Amaraizu....

The Lagos State Government on Wednesday announced the diversion of traffic for the hip-hop singer, Olamide’s annual Olamide Live in Concert fourth edition. The concert will take place on December 17 at the Teslim Balogun Stadium, Surulere in Lagos. According...

A 50 year old man from Maigoge Village in Marita local government area has confessed to have killed his wife because she was starving him of food. According to him , “My wife was fond of not giving me food in time and when I complain she will abuse me...

Doctors have earlier advised a mother with baby upside-down head, Claudio Vieira de Oliveira, to starve him to death, but the mother resisted the advise. This is because something was far from normal about his appearance. Claudio was born with a rare...

About 100 women were recorded to have died in Zamfara in 2016 due to pregnancy related complications, a medical consultant with the Federal Medical Centre, Gusau, Dr Abubakar Danladi, disclosed. Danladi unveiled this on Tuesday in his presentation at...

A 10-year-old girl (name withheld) has said that her dad is responsible for her pregnancy. The case was heard before the Ikeja Chief Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday, the suspect, Kenneth Abuya, was granted bail in the sum of N500,000. The Chief Magistrate,...

National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, on Tuesday assured that he would relate with National Chairman, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Mr. Uche Secondus, without rancour. He gave the assurance in a statement...

The enmity between the former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode and Transportation Minister, Rotimi Amaechi is alarming. Recall that this two politicians faced it off earlier this year on Channels TV were they insulted themselves regarding corruption...