By Mahdi Waziri Isa The Governing Council of Nigerian Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (NIALS), under the Chairmanship of Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Olukayode Ariwo Ola, has approved the 2022 promotion of Staff of the Institute with effect from 1st/January/2023. The Justice Olukayode Ariwo Ola-led Council approved theContinue Reading
By Dr. Abdelghaffar Amoka Abdelmalik The EFCC news on the Ex-ABU VC and Bursar, arraigned for N1bn fraud on Thursday, went viral within a few minutes with several comments. The reactions were as if it is the first corruption case in Nigerian universities. Some people that were always lookingContinue Reading
Following the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU)’s failure to pressure the federal government to provide more funds, some prominent Nigerian public universities have increased their tuition fees. Many federal universities across the country have announced over 200 per cent hike in registration and tuition fees for students, according toContinue Reading
A prominent Saudi opposition figure says the scale of human rights violations in the Persian Gulf kingdom has dramatically risen up ever since Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MbS) took the helm of state affairs in 2017, and the vicious crackdown against dissidents now expands to their families and closeContinue Reading
The daughter of former Iranian president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani has been sentenced to five years in prison, her lawyer said Tuesday. The verdict against Faezeh Hashemi, who is a known Iranian activist, is “not final,” the lawyer, Neda Shams, said in a tweet. “The client is still in prisonContinue Reading
By Pepe Escobar The consensus among future historians will be inevitable: the 2020s started with a diabolic murder. Baghdad airport, January 3, 2020, 00:52 a.m. local time. The assassination of Gen.QassemSoleimani, commander of the Quds Force of the Islamic RevolutionGuards Corps (IRGC), alongside Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, deputy commander ofContinue Reading
By Syed Zafar Mehdi On December 30, the UN General Assembly passed a resolution calling on the Haque-based International Court of Justice (ICJ) to offer its view on the legal consequences of the Israeli regime’s “prolonged occupation” of Palestinian territories, with 87 countries voting in favor of it. TheContinue Reading
Five months to the end of his tenure, Governor Nasir el-Rufa’i of Kaduna State has been crowning traditional rulers in the Southern part of the… Five months to the end of his tenure, Governor Nasir el-Rufa’i of Kaduna State has been crowning traditional rulers in the Southern part of theContinue Reading