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[New Times] Vera Songwe, the Executive Secretary of the UN Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), on Tuesday last week opened the 23rd meeting of the intergovernmental committee of senior officials and experts from 14 eastern African countries in Asmara, Eritrea insisting on the importance of increasing regional trade and implementing the African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA).Leveraging new opportunities for regional integration was the theme of the ECA annual meeting/ .In the eastern trading Africa bloc, via LATEST NEWS

The Nigerian Bar Association has said that no provision of the law requires anyone to come for a suspect before he or she is released on bail. The NBA said this in reaction to the reason given by the Department of State Services for not releasing pro-democracy campaigner and Publisher of Sahara Reporters, Omoyele Sowore, from its custody. The DSS had claimed that no one has come to retrieve Sowore from its facility, hence the reason for not releasing him after meeting his bail condition. See Also Breaking News BREAKING: DSS Confirms Receipt Of Court Order To Release Sowore, Refuses To Comply With Directive 0 Comments 3 Days Ago The NBA condemned the reason given while also calling on the government to respect all court orders. A tweet by the association reads, “We find this most ridiculous.  "There is no provision of law that someone must come for a suspect before he or she is released, even as the court order didn't state so. “DSS and indeed all agencies o

A Kano-based travel agency operator, Mallam Masu’d Muazu, has dragged the Chairman of the National Hajj Commission of Nigeria, Abdullahi Muhammad, to court over an alleged unlawful tenure elongation. Muhammad and board members of the commission were granted six-month tenure of office elongation in May this year by President Muhammadu Buhari at the expiration of their second and final tenures of office. Muazu is praying the court to declare as unlawful and unconstitutional the extension of tenure. Muhammad was sued along with President Buhari, the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Attorney-General of the Federation and the commission for the roles they played in the alleged unlawful presidential act. In the suit marked FHC/ABJ/CS/935/2019 filed on behalf of the plaintiff by Ibrahim Alhassan, the court was asked to hold that the presidential action violated section 171 of the 1999 section and section 5 of the National Hajj Commission FCT 2006. The plaintiff also

The Executive Secretary of the National Human Rights Commission, Tony Ojukwu, has called on the Department of State Services to respect court orders and release detained activists, Omoyele Sowore and Olawale Bakare. He stated this while reacting to the alleged refusal of officials of the agency to release the activists after meeting their bail conditions. In a statement, Ojukwu said, "A situation where the order of courts are continuously disobeyed by security agents makes such security agents judges onto themselves and such situation does not augur well for our democracy based on the separation of powers and rule of law.  "Many cases have been reported to the commission about investigating police officers and state security officers deliberately refusing or delaying to verify bail conditions following court orders just to punish suspects unduly for reasons that are not constitutional." He, therefore, called for a renewed commitment on the part of law enforce

SaharaReporters Media A group of scholars and professionals from Nigeria and around the world, have urged the President Muhammadu Buhari-led government to obey court orders and immediately release Omoyele Sowore and Olawale Bakare from detention. The professionals held that the refusal of the government and the Department of State Services to release Sowore after meeting his bail condition was an indication that the government was determined to continue to hold on to both men for as long as possible. They also posited that the continued detention of Sowore and Mandate was an egregious injustice and a travesty of the rule of law. They said, “The charges that the Nigerian Government has brought against Sowore and Bakare are totally bogus and laughable. “Evidently, both have been targeted by the Buhari administration for their activism in the cause of political freedom and economic prosperity for all Nigerians. “In the specific case of Sowore, it would seem reasonable to surmi