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The African Democratic Congress, ADC,  has taken President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to the cleaners over the presidential pardon granted to 175 beneficiaries, including dozens of convicted drug traffickers and smugglers. The party said with the…
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Osun State Governor Ademola Adeleke has pardoned Segun Olowookere who was sentenced to death for armed robbery. Olowookere was pardoned alongside his accomplice, Sunday Morakinyo, the governor disclosed in a statement on X on Thursday. …
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US President Joe Biden on Sunday issued an official pardon for his son Hunter, who was facing sentencing for two criminal cases, despite assurances that he would not intervene in his legal troubles. No reasonable person who looks at the…
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Outgoing Edo Governor, Godwin Obaseki, has granted pardon to a 77-year-old man and 15 others on death row in the Nigerian Correctional Service as his administration winds down. This is contained in a statement on Tuesday in Benin, by Mr…
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Some residents of Northwest have rejected the idea of granting amnesty to bandits and terrorist, saying such action was akin to ‘robbing Peter to favour Paul’. In their responses to a survey conducted by the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN),…
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A coalition of Civil Society Organisations, Conference of Northern States Civil Society Networks has threatened to mobilised vote of no confidence against the president Muhammadu Buhari administration if it fail to reverse the pardon…
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The Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre (CISLAC) and Transparency International (TI) Nigeria have expressed total disappointment over the pardon granted to some corrupt politicians who were convicted by the Nigerian Judicial System.…
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Human rights lawyer, Mr Femi Falana, SAN, on Friday, stated that the Muhammadu Buhari led administration should free all prisoners who have been jailed for stealing. Falana said this while speaking as a guest lecturer at an event…
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President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered the Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Dr Zainab Ahmed, to release the salaries of health workers, including doctors, that were seized while enforcing the no-work, no-pay policy.…
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