Legal Metro

Legal year: Retired Justice Taiwo Taiwo tasks judges on courage

Justice Taiwo Taiwo, a retired Justice of the Federal High Court, has advised the judiciary to remain firm and fearless in justice delivery as the Nigerian judiciary begins a new legal year. Taiwo, who recently retired said that a fearless judiciary would remain the key to effective justice administration. The Lagos Judiciary on Monday began activities Read More…

REUTERS/Akintunde Akinleye/File Photo
Nigeria Power Top Story

Nigeria blacks out after national power grid fails

The national grid collapsed on Monday leaving many parts of the country without power, according to electricity distribution companies. This would be the fourth time this year that the grid is collapsing for what the authorities blame on technical problems. Last month workers from the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) went on strike and temporarily Read More…

The Nation
Legal Metro Top Story

Lagos CJ appeals for rebuilding of destroyed Igbosere high court

Two years after the Igbosere High Court courthouse was vandalised and burnt down by hoodlums taking advantage of the #EndSARS crisis, the Lagos State Chief Judge, the Honourable Kazeem Alogba, has asked that the buildings be rebuilt. Justice Kazeem Alogba on Monday appealed to the State Government to urgently reconstruct the Igbosere High Court that Read More…

Featured Notes Owei Lakemfa World

Funerals of royalty and disloyalty, songs of defeat and victory

Funerals, official and unofficial, were held in parts of the world this Monday, September 19 to eternally send off Queen Elizabeth II. The pre-funeral ceremonies had included the Queen’s coffin which some mischievous people claimed was empty, lying in state in Scotland and London with some mourners spending a whole day queuing to view it. Read More…

Education News Top Story

ASUU stonewalls going back to work, will appeal ruling

The Academic Staff Union of Nigerian Universities (ASUU) has directed its members across the country to remain calm and resolute over the judgment delivered on Wednesday by the Industrial Court ordering its members to call off the strike and return to work. The university lecturers, who have been on strike for up to seven months Read More…

Press Service/Kremlin/REUTERS
Russia Top Story Ukraine World

I am ready to use nuclear weapons, Putin warns

UK expresses worry, says threat should be taken seriously If threats by Russian President, Vladimir Putin are to be taken seriously, then the world is in for a night of long knives. On Wednesday, President Vladimir Putin ordered Russia’s first mobilisation since World War II and backed a plan to annex swathes of Ukraine, warning Read More…

Education Nigeria Top Story

ASUU strike is over as court orders lecturers back to work

The industrial action by members of the Academic Staff Union of Nigerian Universities (ASUU) is officially over. The National Industrial Court has ordered members of the union to return to work. The Federal Government in a suit prayed for the order for ASUU to call off its seven months strike. The Minister of Labour and Read More…

Getty Images/iStockphoto/Good Therapy
Health Mental Health Metro

It is okay to visit a psychiatrist regularly, Doctor assures Nigerians

Dr. Maymunah Kadiri, a Consultant Neuropsychiatrist and Medical Director, Pinnacle Medical Services, has advised Nigerians to form the habit of going for quarterly mental health check-ups to ensure their mental wellbeing. She bemoaned what she described as the unfortunate reluctance of a majority of Nigerians who feel that only the mentally challenged should go for Read More…

Crime Rape

Woman accused of sexually assaulting year-old baby has been discharged and acquitted

Veronica Vincent, a daycare owner who was accused of sexually assaulting a year-old baby girl in her care, was on Tuesday, discharged and acquitted by an Ikeja Special Offences Court. Veronica was charged with a two-count charge of defilement and sexual assault by penetration. Justice Oluwatoyin Taiwo said that as there had been no blood Read More…