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The Lagos State Real Estate Regulatory Authority and Female Lawyers in Real Estate Practice have called for reforms in statutory provisions to enhance the regulatory framework for real estate practices in the country. This was made known on Thursday at the inaugural conference FELIREP themed “The Missing Gap: Absence of Revised Laws, Rules, Regulations, Policies, […]

5th July 2024 The Court of Appeal, Abuja division, on Thursday, dismissed the ex parte order issued on May 10, 2024, by the Rivers State High Court, Port Harcourt, which barred Martin Amaewhule from parading himself as the Speaker of the Rivers State House of Assembly. The court also dismissed the decision of the state

5th July 2024 The University of Maiduguri in Borno State is in grief as it has again recorded the fourth loss of yet another professor – all within a spate of two months. In a similar development, two lecturers – one with the Federal University, Dutsinma, Katsina State and the Usman Danfodio University, Sokoto, were

5th July 2024 Polls opened Friday for Iran’s runoff presidential election, the interior ministry said, pitting reformist candidate Masoud Pezeshkian against ultraconservative Saeed Jalili in the race to succeed Ebrahim Raisi, who died in a May helicopter crash. The Islamic Republic’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who has the final say in all state matters,

4th July 2024 The Governor of Bayelsa State, Douye Diri, said on Wednesday that he is not interested in being a running mate to ex-Vice President Atiku Abubakar for the 2027 presidential election. A statement by Diri’s Chief Press Secretary, Daniel Alabrah, on Wednesday, said, “A faceless group, which sarcastically named itself Diri Angels, in

4th July 2024 The Akwa Ibom Police Command has announced the enforcement of the ban on the illegal use of tinted glasses, sirens, and covered number plates as it cautions motorists against breaching the directive. This was disclosed in a statement by the spokesperson for the command, Timfon John, on Wednesday. John said the Akwa

4th July 2024 China confirmed Thursday that an armed attack in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) left several of its citizens dead or missing. Local sources told AFP on Wednesday that a militia attack on a mining site in gold-rich Ituri province killed at least four Chinese nationals. Beijing’s foreign ministry said a private

The House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs, will today interrogate the suspended Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ibrahim Lamuwa, who was accused of sexual harassment. It was reported that a few weeks ago, one Simisola Ajayi, through her lawyer, Femi Falana (SAN), submitted a petition to the Office of the Head

The Federal Government will today (Thursday) meet the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities, and the Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions. The meeting to be held at the Office of the Minister of Education is aimed at forestalling a strike by the unions. The meeting is coming on the heels of the

Bandits have killed the eldest son of a judge of the Kaduna State Customary Court, identified as Janet Galadima, while demanding N300m ransom to free the judge and her three other children still being held. The Chief Executive Officer of the House of Justice, Gloria Ballason, in a statement on Wednesday, said the judge and