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The Ogun State Government has sealed off four private hospitals in the Papalanto and Obada area of the State for various offenses. The Commissioner for Health, Dr. Tomi Coker, during a monitoring and compliance exercise, revealed that the move was informed by the unprofessional conduct of medical staff, medical negligence, and unhygienic hospital environment among other offenses.  ...

The Academic Staff Union of Universities has suspended its over eight month old strike today. Although the union is yet to make an official announcement, sources within the national executive committee of the union confirmed to newsmen that the decision was reached at the end of the NEC meeting which started on Thursday night and lasted into the early hours of Friday was held at the ASUU secretariat in Abuja....

The Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja has discharged the leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, NNAMDI KANU, 16 months after his arrest and repatriation into the country. KANU is being prosecuted by the Federal Government at the Federal High Court in Abuja on a 15 count-charge bordering on treasonable felony, terrorism, and offences he allegedly committed in the course of his separatist campaigns....

The House of Representatives has resolved to investigate the circumstances and reason for the recent destruction of the illegal oil bunkering vessel by security operatives in the Niger Delta....

The Senate has begun the holistic investigation of 252 government agencies that benefited from five trillion naira Service Wide Votes between 2017 and 2021....

Ukraine's Nato-led allies have announced deliveries of advanced air defence weapons to Kyiv, after a spate of Russian missile strikes....

The new Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Olukayode Ariwoola, has called on politicians in the country to stop mounting pressure on the judicial arm of government....

The Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has sentenced Nollywood filmmaker and producer, Olajide Kareem, popularly known as Seun Egbegbe, to seven years imprisonment with hard labour for fraud....

A Federal High Court in Abuja has fixed January 19, 2023 for hearing in a suit instituted by the Peoples Democratic Party against President Muhammadu Buhari challenging moves to tamper with the Electoral Act 2022....

Former Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Attahiru Jega has urged the electoral umpire to resist pressure by politicians who oppose to the deployment of the Bimodal Voter Registration System (BVAS) for the...