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Today’s approval of the Union Cabinet of specification of rate of royalty will enable the central government to auction blocks for Lithium, Niobium and REEs for the first time in the country, it added.

New Delhi: The Union Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi approved the amendment to the Second Schedule of the Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Act, 1957, also known as the MMDR Act, for specifying the rate of royalty in respect of three critical and strategic minerals, namely, Lithium, Niobium and Rare Earth Elements (REEs), the Ministry of Mines said.

Under and by virtue of sections 4 (1) and (2) of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 (as Amended): (1) “The legislative powers of

Wednesday, February 2, 2022 – The planned scheme by former Prime Minister Raila Odinga to overthrow the ODM Constitution has hit a snag. This is after the Registrar of Political Parties declined to heed his request to amend the ODM Constitution to suit him, saying the changes were non-compliant with the Political Parties Act. In a…

With the curtains coming down on the Klansman gang trial — the longest running matter of its kind in the English-speaking Caribbean to date — Jamaica's chief prosecutor Paula Llewellyn, King's Cou...

PETALING JAYA: The Federal Constitution provides for citizenship to be granted to anyone who meets the specified criteria and the government does not have any "exclusive right" in deciding, says Lawyers for Liberty.

The infamous Klansman gang operated with "a culture of impunity" under the leadership of a man who had no qualms about "killing again and again and again", trial judge Chief Justice Bryan Sykes sa...

CONVICTED Klansman gangster Tomrick Taylor, who in June last year chose to "remain silent" while his co-accused made passionate statements denying their involvement in the criminal organisation, h...

By Fred Edoreh Somehow, death chose our 63rd Independence Day anniversary to remind us of the bad state of federal roads in the Niger Delta, perhaps across the nation. As President Bola Tinubu was performing the anniversary ritual in Abuja, a petrol tanker was struggling through the cracks, ditches and gullies around Koko Junction on

THE 15 individuals, including a woman, who have been convicted as being members of the St Catherine-based Klansman gang will, beginning today, be handed their prison sentences by Chief Justice Bry...