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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...

International News1 year ago

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...

International News1 year ago

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....

News1 year ago

Zulum Evaluates Flood PHOTOS: Damage in Borno, Provides Aid to Affected Residents

Zulum Assesses Flood Destruction In Borno, Distributes Relief To Victims PHOTOS: Zulum Assesses Flood Destruction In Borno, Distributes Relief Materials To Victims Borno State Governor,...

International News1 year ago

Families Flee After 32 Killed In New Sectarian Violence In Pakistan

Shiite Muslims hold placards and shout slogans during a protest march against the sectarian attacks in Kurram district in Parachinar, the mountainous Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, in...

News1 year ago

VIDEO & PICS : NDLEA Busts Drug Syndicates, Arrests Businessman with 90 Wraps of Cocaine

Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, have arrested a 50-year-old businessman, Osuoha Christian Iheanacho, at the Akanu Ibiam International Airport, AIIA, Enugu, for...

Cover Stories1 year ago

Singapore Hangs Third Drug Trafficker In A Week

A hangman’s noose. Singapore on Friday hanged a 55-year-old man for drug trafficking, its narcotics enforcement agency said, the city-state’s third execution in a week...

Cover Stories1 year ago

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...

Cover Stories1 year ago

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...

Business1 year ago

Supreme Court Strikes Down National Lottery Act

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. ...