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Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Lateef Fagbemi, has reaffirmed the Federal Government’s commitment to implementing the Supreme Court’s judgment on Local Government autonomy. Speaking in Ado Ekiti, Ekiti State, on Tuesday, Fagbemi insisted that the judgment is non-negotiable and that all parties must comply. Advertisement “The position is that… the judgment […]
Jigawa State Commissioner for Special Duties, Auwal Danladi Sankara, has vehemently denied allegations of involvement in an illicit affair with a married woman. His denial comes after the Kano State Hisbah Board confirmed his arrest at an uncompleted building with the woman on Friday. Advertisement The Hisbah Board’s Director General, Dr. Abba Sufi, stated the […]
By AFP Fighters from the Ta’ang National Liberation Army have seized another town on a strategic highway to China, the group and a resident said, in the latest setback for the embattled junta. Northern Shan State has been rocked by fighting since June when an alliance of ethnic armed groups renewed an offensive against the […]
By AFP Death, detention and dissolution have decimated Daw Aung San Suu Kyi’s political party, easing the way for groups backed by Myanmar’s ruling military to claim victory at elections expected next year, analysts say. The death this week of National League for Democracy vice president U Zaw Myint Maung – a close confidante of […]
By AFP Myanmar will send a representative to an annual regional leaders’ summit this week for the first time in three years, a diplomatic source told Agence France-Presse Tuesday, as the junta struggles to quell a civil war. The conflict will be high on the agenda as leaders from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations […]
By AFP A close ally of detained Myanmar democracy leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi died of leukaemia on Monday, a National League for Democracy source told Agence France-Presse, days after being released from junta custody on health grounds. U Zaw Myint Maung, 72, who spent around two decades in prison for defying Myanmar’s military, […]