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The National Judicial Council, NJC, has clarified that no date has yet been fixed for the swearing-in of the newly appointed eleven Justices of the Supreme Court. The Council said that the purported news by an Abuja based media organization suggesting Monday January 16 for the inauguration of the Justices did not emanate from it.…
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Good morning from MZIESBLOG! Here is today’s summary from Nigerian Newspapers: 1. Indications emerged on Thursday that the Central Bank of Nigeria leadership will hold meetings with the shareholders of Union Bank of Nigeria, Polaris Bank and Keystone Bank this weekend or early next week as a follow-up to the sack of the boards of directors…
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This week, a trade group representing major tech companies, including TikTok, Snapchat, X, and Meta, sued Ohio after it introduced a law requiring parents to give consent before their children can use social media apps. The law, which will come into force on January 15, is part of an US$86.1 billion state budget bill signed…
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An official from the administration of U.S. President Joe Biden said that this week, the U.S. Department of Labor will release a final rule that will make it more difficult for companies to treat workers as independent contractors instead of employees. First proposed in 2022 and likely to face legal challenges, the rule stipulates that…
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A federal appeals court has affirmed a judge’s ruling that prevents California from enforcing a new law that bans the carrying of guns in most public areas. An order by a different 9th Circuit panel from a week earlier, which suspended an injunction issued by a judge who concluded the state’s law violated the right…
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A Family Court in Ibadan, on Tuesday, ordered the remand of one Michael Ayinde, 51 and his son, Abiola, 19, for allegedly raping his daughter and the latter, his sister. The magistrate, Mrs O. O. Ogunkanmi, who did not take the pleas of the defendants, ordered their remand at the Abolongo correctional facility, Oyo town.…
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The parents of a British tourist, who was among five killed after a helicopter crashed and burst into flames in the Grand Canyon in 2018, are to receive a $100m (£78m) settlement. Jonathan Udall, 31, suffered burns over 90% of his body and died after spending 12 days in hospital after an Airbus EC130 B4…
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Donald Trump has appeared in court as he tries to dismiss a federal criminal case where he faces charges he plotted to overturn the results of the 2020 election. Mr Trump’s lawyers argued in front of appeal judges in Washington DC that he was immune from prosecution because he was president at the time of…
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Oscar Pistorius has been freed on parole nearly 11 years after murdering his girlfriend in a case that made global headlines. The former Paralympic champion – once celebrated as the ‘blade runner’ – was granted parole in November and today left a South African jail and is now at home, South Africa’s correctional services department said. Pistorius shot…
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A transcript of Virginia Giuffre being questioned over the whereabouts of a photograph showing her with Prince Andrew has been released as part of the documents unsealed by a US court. Ms Giuffre says she was recruited by Jeffrey Epstein’s former lover Ghislaine Maxwell to be a masseuse for the disgraced financier, and was subsequently…
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Donald Trump was also named by Johanna Sjoberg in her interview with the authorities – a transcript of which is among the released documents. While en route to Manhattan (see our previous post) with Jeffery Epstein, Virginia Giuffre, Ghislaine Maxwell and Prince Andrew, she said the financier’s jet diverted to Atlantic City, New Jersey. “The…
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Prince Andrew is still stalked by his decade-long friendship with Jeffrey Epstein and the release of these documents was always going to be difficult. They certainly make for uncomfortable reading. They detail the testimony from Johanna Sjoberg, who is one of the many women who say they were abused by Epstein. She says how she…
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Jeffrey Epstein once told one of his alleged victims that Bill Clinton “likes them young”, according to the unsealed documents. Johanna Sjoberg, who has claimed she was forced to perform sex acts on Epstein, said the pair had discussed the former US president “one time”. In a deposition taken under oath in May 2016, she…
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Prince Andrew, Bill Clinton, Donald Trump and Stephen Hawking are among those named in court documents relating to Ghislaine Maxwell, her relationship with Jeffrey Epstein and alleged victims of sexual abuse. A US judge, Loretta Preska, ruled in December that documents that were part of a 2015 defamation case by Virginia Giuffre against Ghislaine Maxwell should be made public.…
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Justice Donatus Okorowo of the Federal High Court in Abuja has extended the interim order restraining the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, and the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, from taking any action against the 26 Rivers State House of Assembly members who defected to the All Progressives Congress, APC. Justice Okorowo extended the order following…
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CCTV footage has shown the moment a dog owner threw her Maltese Shih Tzu off the top of a multi-storey car park in Australia. The dog, named Princess, had to be put down after she was taken to a vet by a passerby who found the animal in the car park of the Westfield Whitford…
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