archiveDecember 8, 2020

 An Abuja-based graduate, Paul Oche, has filed a N1.5 billion suit against the Nigerian Breweries PLC over alleged copyright infringement. Oche, in a suit filed before Justice Binta Nyako of the Federal High Court, Abuja, is claiming a sum of N1 billion as aggravated and exemplary damages against the company...

The former National Vice Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Ntufam Hillard Eta has dismissed his expulsion from the party by the National Executive Committee (NEC) insisting that the meeting lacks the locus to expel him. The emergency NEC meeting on Tuesday at a virtual meeting announced the...

An Osogbo Chief Magistrates’ Court in Osun on Tuesday sentenced a 34-year-old man, Oyedokun Tunde to 10 years imprisonment for defiling a 13-year-old girl. The Magistrate, Mrs Mary Awodele, who found the defendant guilty of two count charges of assault and rape, ordered his remand at Ilesa Correctional facility. The...

Dr. Aminu Tsanyawa, the Kano State Commissioner of Health says the state-owned comprehensive Cancer treatment centre, currently under construction, will treat 100 patients daily when completed. Tsayawa, who disclosed this while inspecting the ongoing work on Tuesday in Kano, said the project was earlier awarded at N2.3 billion, but later...

  The Ministry of Industry, Trade and Investment said it had adopted different strategies that would drive its campaign on ‘Patronage of Made-in-Nigeria’ initiative, aimed at shifting consumer’s taste for foreign goods to locally produced ones. Mr Suleiman Audu, Director, Commodities and Export Department of the ministry, said this on...

 The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the International Institute for Tropical Agriculture (IITA) to boost productivity of its agricultural programme. The Director, Press and Public Relations, NYSC, Mrs Adenike Adeyemi, said in a statement on Tuesday in Abuja that the ceremony took...

  The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Tuesday claimed that the All Progressives Congress (APC) had finally dissolved out of Nigeria’s political firmament. The PDP alleged that the ruling party has gone into extinction following its failure, corruption as well as the plagues of economic recession, violence and killings in...

  The former pension chief, Mr Abdulrasheed Maina, bought two houses in Abuja for $3.4 million and paid for the houses in cash, a witness has told the court. The witness, Ms Ruqqayah Ibrahim, an investigator with the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) disclosed this Tuesday while testifying against...

  The claims that Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) investigators pressured former bankers, standing trial for allegedly defrauding the Central Bank of Nigeria in the mutilated currency scam, for a bribe of N96 million for their release on bail, is untrue. Three former bankers, Ayodele Adeyemi, Ishaq Akano and ...

The Senate on Tuesday considered a bill seeking to improve credit repayment culture, reduce non-performing loans in the banking sector, streamline loan recovery watch-list consistent loan defaulters with the view to track and blacklist them. The bill which scaled second reading was referred by the Deputy Senate President, Ovie Omo-Agege,...