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Share In a bid to continually decongest the correctional centres and ensure quick dispensation of justice, the Chief Judge of Kogi State, Justice Henry Olusiyi, has released an accused, Abdullahi Usman, unconditionally. Usman, who was diagnosed with diabetes, and scabies, has been detained for over one year for alleged criminal conspiracy and armed robbery. The Chief Judge, who acted based on the medical report brought before him, said the accused has been detained for too long without trial. While reviewing the cases of 210 inmates, which consist 50 convicts and 160 awaiting trials, Justice ...

By Fri Dec 25 2020 President Muhammadu Buhari has urged the family of the late Publisher of Leadership Newspapers, Sam Nda-Isaiah, to uphold the good name left behind by him. Buhari, in a letter addressed to the bereaved family, said the good family name was worth more than gold The President’s letter was delivered to Sam’s younger brother and the head of the family, Abraham Nda-Isaiah by his personal staff, Garba Shehu, Senior Special Assistant, Media and Publicity; Sarki Abba, Senior Special Assistant, Domestic and Social Affairs; and the State Chief of Protocol, Ambassador Lawal Kazaur...

This is contained in his condolence letter to the family on Thursday. The Nigerian leader urged them to uphold the family’s name. “On behalf of the Federal Government and my family, I sincerely express my condolence on the sudden transition of my friend and ally, Mr. Sam Nda-Isaiah, Publisher of Leadership Newspapers. “Indeed, Sam’s untimely passage filled me with shock and sadness to the point that I was lost for words when the news reached me,” he said. The president added that he will miss the deceased. He described Nda-Isaiah as a massive fish gone out of the media ocean and the...

By Muyiwa Adetiba According to some statistics, about 30 million Nigerians go to bed hungry every night. Only about one in four has one or more meals per day. About three in five start the hustle of the day without breakfast. About two in three earn less than a dollar per day while graduate unemployment is a whopping one in two. As grim as these statistics are, they are not 2020 statistics. And everybody knows this year has been exceptionally brutal on many fronts. Just as people were trying to recover from the yuletide and beginning of the year expenses, the dreaded pandemic struck, literall...

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 18 December 2020: For many Sierra Leoneans who had feared a change of government in 2018 may simply usher in more of the same corruption and poor governance, today’s publishing of the country’s Auditor General’s 2019 Report into the SLPP government’s management of public funds, confirms those fears. The report, like all previous reports, makes for disheartening reading. There is corruption and malfeasance across the corridors of almost every government ministry and department, including the Office of the President and Office of the First Lady, where millions of...