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A Lagos State High Court, sitting in Ikeja, has sentenced four persons to death by hanging for armed robbery and kidnapping of one, Mrs. Gloria Emole, the younger sister of Emzor Pharmaceutical Managing Director, Chief Ebuka Okafor. Justice Lateef Lawal-Akapo on Thursday held that the prosecution was able to prove its case beyond a reasonable […]
Former Deputy President of the Senate, Ike Ekweremadu; his wife, Beatrice, have been found guilty of organ trafficking in the United Kingdom. The duo alongside their daughter, Sonia, and a medical doctor, Dr. Obinna Obeta, were found guilty of facilitating the trip of a young man to Britain with the aim of exploiting him, after […]
Speaker, Lagos State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Mudashiru Obasa, has said the 30-day Islamic fasting affords Muslim faithful the opportunity to rededicate themselves to the religious tenets of piety, tolerance, forgiveness and love. Dr. Obasa added that the Ramadan is a period of sober reflection, supplications and humility before Almighty Allah. Obasa, in his […]
Suspected hoodlums have set ablaze a High Court, in Owutu-Edda, Afikpo South Local Government Area of Ebonyi State. Registrar of the Court, Oluchi Uduma, confirmed the incident to journalists in Owutu-Edda on Wednesday. She said the hoodlums invaded the Court premises on Tuesday and set the building ablaze. Uduma explained that the Court building, documents, […]
The National and State Assembly Election Petition Tribunal, sitting in Lagos, has received over 25 petition filed by aggrieved parties, across the state. Candidates of the Labour Party, LP, for Federal House of Assembly in about seven constituency in Lagos are challenging the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, the All Progressives Congress, APC, and the […]
The British High Commission, in Nigeria, has condemned the use of inciteful ethnic language by politicians, celebrities, and social media influencers, during the just concluded governorship and state Houses of Assembly elections. In a statement issued on its Twitter page on Wednesday, the UK observed violence and voter suppression in numerous voting locations. ”We witnessed […]
A totally disappointed Justice Peter Lifu of a Federal High High Court, sitting in Lagos, has recounted how the Federal Government through its lawyers abandoned a suit, seeking to recover and forfeit the sum of Seventy Trillion Naira (N7,000,000,000,000.00) public fund allegedly stashed in 29 commercial banks’ accounts by looters. Justice Lifu narrated how the […]
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has arraigned a Branch Manager of First City Monument Bank, FCMB, Kichime Gomwalk and two others before a Plateau State High Court, sitting in Jos. Gomwalk and two others namely, Michael Damkas Buayam of Tan Global Energy Limited and Abbas Andrew Dayilim of Castlegate International Limited are facing […]
The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, has directed all workers in the public sector of the country to embark on a nationwide strike starting from Wednesday next week. The directive is coming after an initial ultimatum issued by the NLC’s Central Working Committee members criticising the cash swap policy of the Federal Government. Giving the directive […]
Nigerians, especially politicians, who incited ethnic suppression of voters’ civic responsibility, during the just concluded March 18 Governorship and State House of Assembly Polls, in Lagos, are not likely to go scot-free. This is coming as the United States of America, in a statement on its website, on Tuesday, said such action would not go […]
