archiveDecember 4, 2020

Justice Olatunde H. Oshodi of the Lagos State High Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos has convicted and sentenced one Obasemola Samuel to one-year imprisonment for over N30 million fraud. The convict was first arraigned by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on October 16, 2017 on an 18-count charge...

Justice Okong Abang of the Federal High Court, Abuja, on Friday, December 4, 2020, gave an order for the remand of ex-chairman, Pension Reform Task Team, (PRTT), Abdulrasheed Maina in prison custody till the end of his trial, and adjourned the matter till December 8, 2020 upon application by a...

The ongoing trial of Paul Usoro (SAN) a former President of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) continued today, December 4, 2020, with the second prosecution witness, PW2, Abdulrahman Rabo, revealing to Justice Rilwan Aikawa of the Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos how the defendant had paid the sum...

  The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has asked Nigerians to hold officials of the Buhari Presidency and leaders of the All-Progressives Congress (APC) responsible for the festering violence and incessant killing of innocent Nigerians by terrorists. In a statement on Thursday by its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, PDP said...

Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu on Thursday presented a cheque of N10 million each to families of the six police officers lynched in Lagos State in the wake of the violence that trailed the nationwide #EndSARS protests, in fulfillment of his administration’s pledge made during an earlier meeting with police officers. The...

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has disclosed that the country recorded 343 new cases of COVID-19 on Thursday, bringing the number of infections in the country to 68,303. The NCDC disclosed this on its official Twitter handle on Thursday. “343 new cases of #COVID19Nigeria; FCT-123 Lagos-106 Kaduna-72 Nasarawa-14...

  stresses importance of enriching food processing Although efforts by stakeholders in the food processing industry to improve the nutritional value of edible oil, salt, sugar, wheat flour, and other processed foods is commendable, ensuring full compliance to national standards will be required to shape national public health outcomes to...

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) is targeting $2 billion monthly from diaspora remittances. This follows the introduction of the diaspora forex remittances policy by the apex bank. CBN Governor Godwin Emefiele dropped the hint at a news conference on the new policy in Abuja on Thursday. Using Pakistan as...

    Former Minister of Interior, Abba Patrick Moro, on Thursday, December 3, 2020, began his defence before Justice Nnamdi Dimgba of the Federal High Court, Abuja, stating in his testimony that the March 17, 2014 recruitment exercise of Nigeria Immigration Service, (NIS) was marred by controversies, nepotism, job racketeering...