archiveMarch 10, 2023

  Spanish prosecutors on Friday charged Barcelona with corruption over payments the club made to a former refereeing chief’s company. Two of the club’s former presidents, Josep Maria Bartomeu and Sandro Rosell and the ex-refereeing chief Jose Maria Enriquez Negreira are facing the same charge. The affair concerns alleged payments...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Friday, March 10, 2023, presented its second prosecution witness, Olufemi Olukinni, and also closed its case against the duo of Ugwu Chijioke and Ibrahim Adekunle before Justice O.O. Abike-Fadipe of the Special Offences Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos. The defendants, who were...

  the accident recorded six fatalities, 102 casualties   The Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Professor Akin Abayomi, says 32 survivors of the train and bus accident have been discharged from different hospitals in the state. Abayomi said this during a news conference on Friday in Lagos while updating on...

Governor of River State, Nyesom Wike, says he did not rig the presidential election against Peter Obi, candidate of the Labour Party (LP). Obi came third with 6,101,533 votes in the February 25 elections won by Bola Tinubu, candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC). Alex Ogbonnia, the National Publicity...

calls for construct level crossing railway gates across the country Following the fatal crash, involving a moving train and the Lagos State Staff Bus at PWD railway crossing along Agege Motor Road on Thursday, Dauda Ali Biu, the Corps’ Marshal, Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), has expressed his heartfelt sympathy...

An American university, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), has confirmed the governorship candidate of Labour Party (LP) in Lagos, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, attended the school between 2005 and 2008. According to the US-based University, Rhodes-Vivour obtained a Master’s Degree in Architecture, after studying at the institution for four years. The...

  donates 74 vehicles to Divisional Police stations in Oyo Oyo State governor, 'Seyi Makinde, on Thursday, commissioned the new Ojoo Divisional Police Headquarters, Ibadan, which was constructed by the state government following its destruction during the #EndSARS protest, which engulfed the country in 2021. The governor, while speaking at...

  A former boss of the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), Dr. Oyeyemi Kale, has been appointed as a partner and chief economist at Klynveld Peat Marwick Goerdeler (KPMG) Nigeria. “The Partners and staff of KPMG Nigeria are pleased to welcome Dr Oyeyemi Kale to our firm as he assumes...

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) said it will appeal a court order to allow two Nigerians to use their Temporary Voter Cards (TVCs) to vote in the governorship and state houses of assembly elections. The two Nigerians, Kofoworola Olusegun and Wilson Allwell, filed a suit marked FHC/ABJ/CS/180/2023, on Wednesday,...

Senator Ike Ekweremadu, a former Deputy Senate President, has insisted that his doctor advised him against seeking a kidney donor from his family members. Ekweremadu disclosed this to a court in London on Thursday during cross-examination in an organ harvesting and trafficking criminal trial. It would be recalled that the...