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TD Jakes’ Potter’s House was founded in 1998.   US megachurch Potter’s House says its leader Bishop Thomas Dexter (T.D.) Jakes is stable and under the...

DHL Cargo Plane Crashes In Lithuania, Killing One

This photograph taken on November 25, 2024 shows the wreckage of a cargo plane in the courtyard of a house following its crash near the Vilnius...

Six Children, Two Women Die In Greece Migrant Shipwreck

Map of Greece.   Eight migrants, six of them minors, died Monday after a boat sank in the Aegean Sea, the Greek coastguard said. The coastguard...

16 Dead, Seven Missing In Indonesia Flood

  Flash floods and a landslide swept four districts of Indonesia’s Sumatra island over the weekend, killing at least 16 people, the national disaster agency said....

Families Flee After 32 Killed In New Sectarian Violence In Pakistan

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Singapore Hangs Third Drug Trafficker In A Week

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South Africa Central Bank Cuts Interest Rate to 7.75%

Cyril Ramaphosa waves as he prepares to take the oath of office for his second term as South African President during Ramaphosa’s inauguration ceremony at the...

FILES: Supreme Court of Nigeria. Credit: Sodiq Adelakun/Channels TV The Supreme Court has nullified the National Lottery Act 2005 enacted by the National Assembly. Advertisement In a unanimous judgment of a seven-member of the apex court, read by Justice Mohammed Idris, held that the National Assembly lacked the powers to legislate on issues relating to lottery and games of chance. The court held that such powers only reside with the state Houses of Assembly, which possess exclusive jurisdiction over lottery and games of chance. Justice Idris ordered that the National Lottery Act 2005 should no longer be enforced in all states, except the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), in respect of which the National Assembly is empowered to make laws. READ ALSO: Lottery Regulation: Supreme Court Fixes Date To Hear Lagos, Ekiti Suit Against FG, 34 Other States Advertisement The suit was filed in 2008 by the Attorney General of Lagos State against the Federal Government in respect of who controls and regulates the gaming and lottery sector. Ekiti State was joined as co-plaintiff in the suit following an order of the court made on October 6, 2020. Subsequently, attorneys general of 34 other states were joined as defendants by the Supreme Court on November 15, 2022. The plaintiffs had asked the apex court to declare that the lottery is not one of the 68 items for which the National Assembly has the exclusive vires to make laws under Part 1 of the Second Schedule of the 1999 Constitution as amended. Advertisement They also sought a declaration that the National Assembly lacks the vires to legally and constitutionally make any law to regulate and control the operation of lottery in Nigeria.

(FILES) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) and Defence Minister Yoav Gallant attend a press conference in the Kirya military base in Tel Aviv on October...

South Africa takes over G20 leadership from Brazil

Cyril Ramaphosa   South Africa has assumed the presidency of the G20, becoming the first African nation to lead the influential bloc of the world’s largest...