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The management of the Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission, NUPRC, has described the planned strike action by PENGASSAN and NUPENG, over its staff’s welfare, as an ambush against the Commission and circumvention of the due grievance process established for employee relations. NUPRC said contrary to the allegations and concerns raised by PENGASSAN and NUPENG about […]
Officials of the Department of State Services, DSS, and the Nigerian Correctional Services have clashed on the premises of the Federal High Court, Lagos, over an attempt by the DSS to re-arrest the sacked Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Godwin Emefiele. Emefiele was charged by the Office of the Attorney General of […]
Following an application filed by a Lagos Attorney, Temilolu Adamolekun, on behalf of Union Bank Nigeria Plc to recover a debt of over N7billion from a limited liability company, Swift Networks Limited, Justice Daniel Osiagor of a Federal High Court, sitting in Lagos, has restrained Swift Networks, its agents, privies and/or assigns or otherwise howsoever […]
The Department of State Services, DSS, has scheduled the arraignment of suspended Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Godwin Emefiele for Tuesday, July 25, 2023, over alleged illegal possession of ammunition. Emefiele will appear before Justice Nicholas Oweibo of a Federal High Court, sitting in Lagos, on a two-count charge of unlawful possession […]
A Federal High Court, sitting in Abuja, on Thursday, granted an application by the leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, seeking to access his medical records and doctors while in custody of the Department of State Services, DSS. The trial Judge, Justice Binta Nyako, in her judgment on the application, […]
The Court of Appeal, Abuja, has debunked reports claiming Justice Boloukuoromo M. Ugo has resigned as member of the five-man panel of the Presidential Election Petitions Court, PEPC. A verified Twitter user by the name Umar Sani had tweeted on Thursday that Justice Ugo resigned on grounds that siding with President Bola Tinubu against those […]
Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka has called on President Bola Tinubu to declare a national public holiday for traditionalists in the country. Soyinka, who spoke against the backdrop of his 89th birthday celebration, noted that traditionalists had been neglected for too long in the nation. He insisted that the traditionalists have had enough, explaining it […]
The Republic of Seychelles, an archipelagic country consisting of 115 islands in the Indian Ocean, off East Africa, has reportedly imposed a ban on Nigerian passport holders applying for short-term visas or holiday purposes, causing protests among Nigerian Twitter users. The travel ban was confirmed when a travel content creator shared a screenshot of a […]
The National Industrial Court, in Ikoyi, Lagos, has fined Mobil Producing Nigeria Company N500,000 for employing delay tactics in a suit filed against the Company by its former staff, James Nwagbogwu Ebede. When the matter was mentioned last week for continuation of trial, Counsel for ExxonMobil, Paul Usoro, SAN, was in Court to cross examine […]
A document from the Police Legal Department has revealed that a prima facie case of criminal trespass, impersonation and conduct likely to cause a breach of trust has been established against one, Chief Moroof Owonla popularly known as KAKA, a complainant in an alleged case of land grabbing. The document stated that the complainant failed […]
