May 2024
Woman Caught Hawking Currency At Lagos Event Centre Jailed 6 Months
A Lagos woman Adeyinka Bilikis Gbadamosi has been sentenced to six months imprisonment after she pleaded guilty to a one-count charge bordering on currency racketeering levelled against her by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC. Gbadamosi who was arrested on April 27, 2024, while hawking Naira notes at 10 Degree Event Centre, Billings Way,…
Jury finds Donald Trump guilty on all 34 counts at hush money trial
Donald Trump has been found guilty of falsifying business records, a felony that could result in prison time. He will be sentenced on July 11. The charges carry a maximum prison sentence of four years, but legal experts consider prison unlikely given Trump’s lack of a criminal record. The former US president had pleaded not…
Two Storey Buildings Collapse In Lagos, Eight Rescued As Search For Survivors Continues
The Lagos State Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Gbenga Omotosho, confirmed that eight people have so far been rescued by the LASEMA team. A multi-storey building has collapsed on Iga Iduganran street, in the Lagos Island area of Lagos State, trapping many people underneath the rubble. The incident occurred on Thursday close to the Oba…
NNPC, ExxonMobilsettle over $1.2bndivestment deal
The Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited has signed settlement agreement deal with ExxonMobil Nigeria, on the proposed divestment of 100 percent interest in Mobil Producing Nigeria Unlimited to Seplat Energy Offshore Limited. The $1.28 billion deal, first announced in February 2022, has been entangled in regulatory hurdles for over two years. “Settlement agreement between…
NIGERIA WILL PROSPER UNDER TINUBU’S LEADERSHIP, AKANDE ASSURES NIGERIANS
Chief Bisi Akande, the pioneer national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has assured Nigerians that the country is safe under President Bola Tinubu’s leadership, despite the current challenges. Akande stated that Nigeria has continued to grow stronger and more united under Tinubu’s presidency, and he is confident that the country will remain peaceful,…
Students Loan Scheme Will Be Made Available To Students Of State Universities.– FG
The federal government said the student’s loan scheme will be made available to students of state universities. The website of the student loan fund has received over 60,000 visitors since its launch, the Managing Director of the Nigerian Education Loan Fund, Akintunde Sawyerr, made this known during an ongoing press briefing in Abuja on Thursday….
Three police hurt and 40 arrests at pro-Palestinian march UK
Three police officers have been injured during a demonstration in Westminster organised by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign and other groups. One officer suffered a serious facial injury after she was hit with a bottle thrown from within the crowd, the Metropolitan Police said. The Met said the suspect had not yet been identified but that…
25 Years of Unbroken Democracy in Nigeria, Yet ‘People Are Hungry’ – Rep Laments
Orogbu, who represents the Akwa north/Awka south federal constituency of Anambra, spoke on the floor of the green chamber on Wednesday while contributing to the debate on the nation’s 25 years of unbroken democracy. Since Nigeria returned to democracy on May 29, 1999, there has been no military takeover like those that occurred after the…
Court Orders Interim Forfeiture Of $1.4m Linked To Emefiele
A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has again ordered the interim forfeiture of the sum of $1.4m linked to the former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele. Justice Ayokunle Faji ordered the forfeiture of the money to the Federal Government of Nigeria. The judge also ordered the EFCC to publish…