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Good afternoon from MEZIESBLOG! Here is today’s summary from Nigerian newspapers: 1. The Senate and House of Representatives have passed the N54.9 trillion 2025 Appropriation Bill presented by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. In the House of Representatives, the bill was passed after a clause-by-clause consideration by the Committee of the Whole on Thursday. 2. The military…
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Mixed reactions have continued to trail the release of all minors prosecuted in court for their participation in the #EndBadGovernance demonstrations. MEZIESBLOG reports that President Bola Tinubu directed the Attorney-General of the Federation to ensure the immediate release of the minors detained by the Nigeria Police in connection to last August’s protests. The directive came…
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A bit more on the reports that Donald Trump is being investigated for his comments on Liz Cheney last night… Speaking to a local TV station on Friday, Arizona attorney general Kris Mayes has confirmed that her office is looking into the comments. She said Mr Trump might have violated state laws that prohibit death…
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“It feels great, it feels great to be home… I’ve been fighting for this day since the first day that I was arrested and entered prison,” said LaVone Hill. Hill has spent the past 22 years in prison after being wrongly convicted. He is now home in Detroit but his release did not come easy. “I…
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A mother who hit her six-year-old son more than 100 times with a belt because he was misbehaving was sentenced to 13 months’ jail on Friday (Aug 2). On top of the beating, the woman also punched the boy, made him do a handstand and kicked and slapped him. A gag order was imposed by the court…
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Greece’s highest administrative court has declared an amendment that prevented an independent body overseeing government surveillance powers from informing citizens of state surveillance due to “national security” reasons unconstitutional, Human Rights Watch said in a report released this week. The conservative government of Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis through a March 2021 amendment removed the ability…
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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has filed a fresh 26-count charge bordering on abuse of office & corruption against the immediate former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Godwin Emefiele. Emefiele will be arraigned before Justice Rahman Oshodi of the Lagos High Court, Ikeja on Monday, April 8 on counts bordering…
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Good evening from Meziesblog! Here is today’s summary from Nigerian Newspapers: 1.Nationwide darkness hit Nigeria as the National Grid collapsed for the fourth time in 2024 amid the Easter Holidays. According to sources from electricity Distribution companies in Nigeria, the grid collapsed around 4:30 pm on Thursday. 2. Hoodlums numbering about 30 on Thursday burnt a…
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The Chief Judge of Taraba, Justice Joel Agya, on Friday sentenced Yusufa Adamu and Adamu Abdullahi to death by hanging for kidnapping Balkisu Kambe and Maryam Musa in Gashaka Local Government of the state. Agya, while delivering the judgment in Jalingo, said the prosecution had proven its case beyond a reasonable doubt. The judge said…
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An Abia State High Court sitting in Ukwa, Abia State, has sentenced two former members of the Abia Vigilante Group, popularly known as Bakassi Boys, to death for alleged involvement in kidnap and murder. The duo, Ugochukwu Amaugo and Udo Ogah, are to die by hanging according to the pronouncement of the trial judge, Justice…
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A Federal High Court in Abuja, on Monday, again adjourned a fresh N1billion suit filed by leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, against the Federal Government until March 18 this year for hearing. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) had, on January 8, reported that Justice James Omotosho fixed the…
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A man has been charged after a farmers’ protest involving tractors outside the office of a Welsh government minister. North Wales Police said they were called to a report that a number of vehicles were blocking a road in Wrexham on Monday afternoon. The force received the report shortly after 2.10pm that Rhosddu Road was being blocked…
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The Supreme Court has affirmed the five-year jail term handed to a former member of the House of Representatives, Farouk Lawan by the Court of Appeal. Lawan was convicted and sentenced to prison in 2021 for accepting a $500,000 bribe from businessman Femi Otedola, Chairman, Zenon Petroleum and Gas Ltd. In a unanimous judgment on…
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The Supreme Court has declared Siminalayi Fubara as the duly elected Governor of Rivers State. The governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in the 2023 elections in Rivers State, Patrick Tonye-Cole, had challenged Fubara’s victory in the poll. The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, had declared Fubara as the winner of the election.…
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Justice Bolaji Olajuwon of the Federal High Court in Abuja on Thursday ordered that the five Port Harcourt-based men arraigned by the Federal Government on terrorism charges be remanded at Kuje Prison in Abuja. The suspects are to remain in prison custody till February 2 when their respective bail applications will be determined by the…
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An Akwa Ibom State High Court has ordered a Policewoman in the State Police Command, Inspector Iniobong Umoren to pay a tricyclist, Jeremiah Sunday Udo N5m for his unlawful arrest and impoundment of his tricycle, which he bought on hire purchase for the sum of N1.9m. The Court presided by Justice Ntong Ntong gave the…
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