Banu was arraigned alongside Travel Messenger Company Limited and one Olarewaju Adeniyi on a nine count charge before Justice Babangana Ashigar led Court. The EFCC alleged that the defendant conspired among themselves to launder about four hundred and eleven million naira belonging to the Kwara State Government. Count one of the charge reads “That you,…
The Director-General, National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Brigadier General Shuaibu Ibrahim says, Federal Government in line with the new National Minimum Wage, has approved N33,000 allowance for Corps members. General Shuaibu, told to Corps members at the NYSC Bauchi State Secretariat during a visit to the State. A post on NYSC official Facebook page said:…
The Abia State Police Command has arrested and paraded a suspected armed robber identified as Kingsley Emezue alias Pakins alongside his gang members Enyinna Asiegbu (25) and Promise Sunday Obilor a.k.a Esere (26), for reportedly killing a couple before their three children. Abia State’s Police Commissioner, Ene Okon told newsmen that the arrested suspects were connected to Sampson Iheukwumere Nwokocha…
Sen. Nicholas Tofowomo, Vice Chairman, Senate Committee on Land Transport has condemned the abduction of Chief Mrs. Alice Fadeni, the mother of a business mogul, Mr. Sehinde Fadeni, in Ode-Aye, Okitipupa local government area of Ondo State. Senator Tofowomo described the abduction of Mrs Fadeni as evil. He urged the security agencies to move into…
The panel investigating allegation of sexual harassment against a lecturer at the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife in Osun State, Mr. Olabisi Olaleye, has submitted its report to the Vice Chancellor, Prof. Eyitope Ogunbodede. The university authorities constituted the panel led by the Provost of the Postgraduate College of the university, Prof. Yetunde Ajibade, to look…
A supermarket, Panda, located in Jabi area of the Federal Capital Territory, has been sealed by the Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (FCCPC) for displaying and selling contraband and food items with 2037, 2089 expiry dates. Babatunde Irukera, Director-General of the commission, while speaking with newsmen on Tuesday, said the move was to serve…
Abaribe spoke on Wednesday on the floor of the Senate during a debate on insecurity in the country. He said: “Nigeria didn’t elect the IGP. We didn’t elect other service chiefs. We elected the APC government in 2015. We are asking this government to resign because it can no longer perform its role.”
The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) says it will begin conduct of compulsory eye test for drivers to ascertain quality of vision to reduce Road Traffic Crashes (RTC) in 2020. The FRSC Corps Marshal, Dr Boboye Oyeyemi, said this at the corps operators’ meeting with Zonal Commanding officers (ZCO) on Tuesday in Abuja. Oyeyemi said…
In a bid to get popular in an unholy way, an Abuja pastor offered a trader 500,000 for the trader to be used as a miracle scam. The Trader was to pretend that he was a dead man and the Pastor will then raise him from the death, unfortunately, the trader died in coffin before…
Babagana Zulum, governor of Borno state, says telling the truth is a problem in Nigeria. Zulum said this on Tuesday while delivering a lecture at the National Defence College in Abuja. His audience included senior military officers and policymakers within and outside Nigeria. Zulum said the unwillingness of persons in the corridors of power to…