A POS operator in the Adamawa State capital, Yola, Umar Usman, drank a locally made insecticide on Monday in a move to kill himself over a N1.7 million debt.Umar, who is from Yola South LGA, made the suicide attempt by drinking the local stuff called Otapiapia at the Upper Area Court I in Yola, where he was arraigned following a criminal complaint by his friend, Mustapha Baraya, over the money.His friend, of the same community, sued him earlier this year, on Februar...

The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, SERAP, has filed a lawsuit against President Bola Tinubu, over the alleged ”arbitrary, unconstitutional, unlawful, unfair, and unreasonable 50 percent telecom tariff hike by the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC.Also joined in the suit as defendants are the NCC, which recently approved a 50 percent hike in telecom tariffs.The average price of calls will rise to N16.5 per minute from N11; the cost of 1GB of...

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu finds himself entangled in a legal battle before the Supreme Court. Chief Albert Ambrose Owuru, a presidential candidate in the 2019 general election, has taken the bold step of challenging Tinubu's inauguration as President, citing a pending legal action against the conduct of the 2023 presidential poll.Owuru, a Constitutional lawyer, is invoking the doctrine of Lis Pendens to call for the nullification of Tinubu's inauguration as the de...