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By Oluwatosin Adebowale The Court of Appeal, sitting in Abuja, has set aside the decision of the Osun State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal. The Court upheld the election of Senator Ademola Adeleke of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, as the winner of the July 16 governorship election in the State. The Osun State Governorship Election […]
The Independent Corrupt Practices Commission, ICPC, has dragged the former Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, Prof. Dibu Ojerinde, and four of his children before a Federal High Court, sitting in Abuja, over N5-billion money laundering charges. Prof. Ojerinde and his companies had earlier been charged before Justice Obiora Egwuatu, for money […]
The World Health Organisation, WHO, says the African region has achieved 26 percent reduction in TB deaths. In a message to mark this year’s World Tuberculosis, TB, Day., WHO’s Regional Director, in Africa, Matshdiso Moeti, said the region is now on the threshold of reaching a 35 per cent of TB death reduction. This year’s […]
The Nigerian government proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has told Nigerians from the South Eastern part of the country to stop investing in Lagos. It also asked them to start making preparations for a mass exodus from the commercial nerve centre of the nation soon. The group gave the charge, in a statement signed […]
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has arraigned two suspects – Taiwo Oluwadahunsola and Adebola Adetayo – before a Lagos Special Offences Court, sitting in Ikeja, over alleged laundering of about Nine Hundred and Ninety-Nine Million Naira (N999,000,000.00). A company, Green Eagles Agribusiness Solution Limited, was also arraigned alongside the defendants on Thursday, on […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
