archiveJuly 2021

Nigerian Senate  on Tuesday rejected the nomination of Lauretta Onochie as a national commissioner of the Independent National Electoral Commission. Chairman of the Committee, Kabiru Gaya, in his report, said Onochie did not satisfy the provisions of the Federal Character principles. Email It would be recalled that on Monday, former...

The Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Hakeem Odumosu has reacted to the retraction of Chidinma Ojukwu of killing the Chief Executive Officer of Super TV, Usifo Ataga,  and described her new claims as an “afterthought”. It had been  earlier reported that Chidinma, a 21-year-old Mass Communi­cation student of the Univer­sity...

  Catholic Archbishop of Abuja Diocese, Ignatius Kaigama on Sunday beamed his searchlight on many Ministers of God who betray their priestly and prophetic mandate in order to please political leaders. He also called on Nigerians to stop the practice of giving ultimatum to strangers to leave where they had...

A Federal High Court in Lagos, today Monday July 12, adjourned till September 22, proceedings in the suit between Nigerian Bottling Company (NBC) Ltd and Rite Foods Ltd. In the suit, marked FHC/L/CS/92/2021, both firms are locked in battle over alleged similarities or not between the logos of their energy...

In its determined bid to fight the dreaded COVID-19 pandemic, the Government of Oyo State, on Monday, donated some equipment to the Biorepository Laboratory of the University College Hospital (UCH), Ibadan. The equipment, according to the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Health, Dr. Ayoola Adebisi, include a biosafety cabinet and thermocycler....

    The trial of Patrick Akpobolokemi, a former Director-General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA, and three others for an alleged N8.5billion fraud before Justice Ayokunle Faaji of the Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos continued on July 12, 2021, with the Economic and Financial...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) today, Monday July 12, 2021 arraigned Naankang Dawan, his companies: Taen Nigeria Ltd, Lataen Engineering Ltd alongside Moruf Tunji Olukanmi before Justice D. V Agishi of the Federal High Court, Jos, Plateau State on a 31-count charge bordering on conspiracy, money laundering and...

*VP charges team, recalling notable exploits of 1996 Atlanta, 2000 Sydney Olympics teams As Team Nigeria to the 2020 Tokyo Olympics prepares to leave the shores of the country, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, has called on the team to replicate the performances of past Nigerian Olympians, noting that “you...

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) on Monday said it was developing  a Tertiary Institutions’ Entrepreneurship Scheme (TIES) to re-orientate, train and finance entrepreneurship ideas by Nigerian graduates. The CBN Governor, Dr Godwin Emefiele, stated this in a goodwill message to the 35th Conference of Vice Chancellors of Nigerian Universities,...

The Nigerian stock market started the week’s transactions on Monday on a negative note with profit-taking in some blue chips. Specifically, the All-Share Index dipped 136.30 points or 0.36 per cent to close at 37,857.89 from 37,994.19 achieved on Friday. Accordingly, the month-to-date and year-to-date losses increased to 0.1 per...