Nigeria and African news

A new association for legal practitioners in Nigeria, known as, Law Society of Nigeria (LSN) has been established. The Nigeria Bar Association (NBA), founded in 1933, had been the only professional body regulating  legal practitioners in Nigeria. The new association, according to reports by the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), is led by Kunle Ogunba,…

  Another office of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) was set ablaze on Sunday in Njaba Local Government Area of Imo state by unknown persons. The commission in a statement, by its spokesman, Mr. Festus Okoye, condemned the attacked on its offices. Okoye said, the building was substantially burnt down, along with electoral materials,…

Another set of four of the remaining 32 abducted train passengers have been freed by their captors. The four released victims which include a 90 year old woman and her 53 year old daughter were released on Friday. Their released was confirmed in a statement on Friday by Tukur Mamu, a media consultant to Sheikh…

The umbrella body for Muslims, the Ja’amatu Nasril Islam (JNI), headed by Sa’ad Abubakar, the Sultan of Sokoto, has called on the federal and state governments to urgently address the economic and security challenges facing Nigerians before the situation worsens. The religious body also called for the immediate release of all those arrested during recent…

The Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF), has expressed concern over the hash economic conditions Nigerians are going through amid deteriorating security situation. This was contained in a communique issued at the end of its National Executive Council (NEC) meeting on Tuesday in Kaduna. The meeting which was attended by members of the forum across the 19…