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The UK government has won a bid for the Supreme Court to decide if a woman stripped of her citizenship after joining the ISIL (ISIS) armed group in Syria can return to fight the decision. The home secretary successfully appealed a lower court ruling this month which would have allowed Shamima Begum, 20, to return to the United Kingdom to pursue her appeal. Begum, who lives in a Syrian refugee camp, lost the first stage of her case about the legality of the government's decision at the Special Immigration Appeals Commission (SIAC) in February. However, the tribunal also ruled she could not have a "fair and effective appeal" or play "any meaningful part" in the process, as she was living in a Syrian refugee camp. Three senior judges at the Court of Appeal upheld the SIAC ruling on July 16, concluding Begum should be allowed to come to the UK for the legal challenge. They ruled "fairness and justice" outweighed any national securit

No fewer than 300 soldiers have been dismissed by the Nigerian Army for various offences ranging from desertion and absence without leave in the Operation Lafiya Dole campaign in the North-East. It was gathered that 24 soldiers of the 118 Task Force Battalion, Kaura Cross, Baga, were dismissed from the military on December 13, 2015 for failure to board an articulated truck during an operation from Maimalari cantonment to Baga. The Commanding Officer, Col. S. Omolori, was said to have charged them with desertion and dismissed the first batch of 24 soldiers. Omolori was said to have discharged the second set of 30 soldiers and another 24 men also for desertion in January  4, 2016. Findings revealed that another 45 soldiers of 157 Battalion were equally expelled on January 16, 2016 for going AWOL. Also, 36 others, who graduated from the army depot were sent packing by the authorities for certificate forgery, inconsistent BVN, age fraud, among other issues. So

This is particularly true of columnists who, like me, perpetually pass judgement on the failings, misdeeds, or inadequacies of others - usually powerful public figures. As a corollary to this, our prescriptions for the failings, misdeeds and inadequacies of others tip to the obdurate.   Traditionally, we have shared our remedies in the comfortable certainty of their righteousness and without the discomfort of any measure of accountability that the powerful public figures we routinely reprimand or excoriate may face and, sadly, too often evade.     Herein lies the columnists' grating hypocrisy: we demand accountability of others, but rarely welcome or tolerate it when readers point an accusatory finger our way.      For too long, columnists could sit high atop their distant, cosy perches to scold, lecture or pontificate to all manner of people about all manner of subjects.     And far too many writers were pleased with the agreeable status quo and hoped for it to conti

Dancer, singer, songwriter, actor, director –  Madonna  has had quite the career. But the queen of pop’s latest reinvention came this week in the form of a video posted on Instagram that shared a  coronavirus conspiracy theory with her 15 million followers. Madonna claimed a vaccine existed but was being concealed. “They would rather let fear control the people and let the rich get richer and the poor get poorer,” she said. Instagram blurred the video, captioned it “false information” and linked users to a page debunking the bogus claim. Later, it  deleted the pos e So ended another skirmish between celebrity, truth and the pandemic, an ongoing battle that pits fame against science and public health. Days earlier it was the turn of  Lewis Hamilton to skid into trouble by sharing an anti-vaxxer post, which suggested Bill Gates was lying about  coronavirus vaccine trials . The clip, which the Formula One driver shared with 18.3 million Instagram followers, shows Gates o