Tag: Illegal
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Auditor-General queries State House, Budget Office, 306 others for spending N149b illegally
The Auditor-General for the Federation, Mr Anthony Ayine, has queried 308 Ministries, Department and Agencies of government over extra-budgetary spending of N149.5bn in 2016. This is contained in the 2016 annual report of the Auditor-General for the Federation, which was obtained by our correspondent on Sunday in Abuja. The 2016 audit report is the latest…
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Court declares marriages conducted in Ikoyi Registry as null, void
The Lagos State Government has secured another court injunction restraining the Federal Government’s owned Registry in Ikoyi from conducting marriages, saying it was unconstitutional for the Federal Government to be usurping the power of the State Government and the Local Government in this regard. The judgment delivered by Professor Chuka Aunstine Obiozor with the reference…
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AGF, Malami declares Senate’s suspension of Omo-Agege illegal
The Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF) Mr Abubakar Malami, (SAN) told the Federal High Court Abuja on Monday that the suspension of Sen. Ovie Omo-Agege was unconstitutional, illegal and unlawful. Malami, who is the 3rd defendant in the ongoing suit brought by Omo-Agege challenging his suspension from the Senate, made his position known through his…
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Wike visits Buhari, insists withdrawal of $1bn from ECA to fight Boko Haram illegal
Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State on Friday visited President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa in Abuja. The governor after the brief meeting with the President disclosed to State House correspondents that the decision of his colleagues in the Nigeria Governors Forum to allow the federal government withdraw $1 billion from the Excess Crude…
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Osun High Court declares Aregbesola’s “State of Osun” illegal, unconstitutional
The Osun State High sitting in Ilesa on Thursday declared the change of the name of the state to the “State of Osun” as illegal, null and void. Delivering judgment in a case instituted by a human rights activist, Barrister Kanmi Ajibola challenging the legality of the “State of Osun Land use charge Law”, Justice…
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Police declare Biafra Security Service illegal
The Commissioner of Police Abia, State Command, CP Adeleye Oyebade has declared the recently formed Biafra Security Service of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) as illegal. Oyebade in a press briefing at the command’s headquarters in Umuahia, the state capital warned those behind the formation of the security network he described as “unlawful and…
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Ondo Speaker ready to step aside before illegal removal – Mimiko
Governor Olusegun Mimiko has said before the 13 of the 26 members of the Ondo State House of Assembly decided to unconstitutionally impeach the Speaker, Mrs. Jumoke Akindele, she had accepted to step aside. He said it was unconstitutional for 13 out of the 26 members of the Assembly to remove the Speaker since the…
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IPOB rally illegal, held without permit – Police
…says no life was lost Following the public outburst over treatment melted out to members of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB during the solidarity rally for President Donald Trump on Friday in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State Police Command has said it got no written or verbal message from the group therefore describing…
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Nasarawa Govt. to shut illegal private schools
The Nasarawa State House of Assembly said on Friday that it would collaborate with the state Ministry of Education to close down all illegal private schools to improve the standard of education. Mr Daniel Ogah-Ogazi, the Chairman, House Committee on Education, Science and Technology, made this known when the state Commissioner for Education appeared before…