The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Thursday told an Ikeja High Court that an oil marketer, Oluwaseun Ogunbambo, charged with N979.6 million subsidy fraud, has fled to Canada. The EFCC disclosed this in its response to an application filed by Ogunbambo’s counsel, Mr Raphael Oluyede, before Justice Adeniyi Onigbanjo. The News Agency of…
Sunday Omotayo, an unemployed engineering graduate of old Ekiti State University was rescued yesterday by men of the Akwa Ibom State Police Command from committing suicide in Uyo. Omotayo caused a stir along Wellington Bassey Way when he deliberately jumped out of a speeding Toyota Hiace bus, expecting to be crushed to death by oncoming…
Bandits suspected to be Boko Haram terrorists on Wednesday bombed a police station, a bank and a Sharia Court, killing seven policemen and a civilian guard in Gwaram Sabuwa, Gwaram Local Government Area of Jigawa State. Four other persons were also said to have been injured during the incident which occurred between 1am and 2am.…
MR Joseph Daudu, SAN is a former President of the Nigeria Bar Association. He is known for baring his mind on an issue, no matter whose ox is gored. In this interview, he spoke extensively on the on-going national conference, the crisis in the Rivers State Judiciary over the appointment of a Chief Judge for…
Operators in the Nigerian power sector, yesterday, declared that the current epileptic power situation in the country cannot be addressed within the next couple of months, as they are currently handicapped and faced with a lot of challenges. The operators, who spoke at the Seventh Lagos Economic Summit, tagged, Ehingbeti 2014, in Lagos, advised Nigerians…
Senate yesterday approved N4.69 trillion as the 2014 budget against the N4.642 trillion presented to the National Assembly by President
by: Ernest Nwokolo, Abeokuta For seventeen years old Blessing Saviour from Akwa – Ibom State, the labour pains experienced last week before delivering her Baby boy at the state hospital, Ijaiye, Abeokuta has thought her few lessons – that motherhood is neither a tea party nor the fruit from it something to be traded off.…
“As a friend and partner of this country, I am very concerned and interested in the violence here in the middle belt.” The United States Ambassador to Nigeria, James Entwistle, has expressed his country’s concern about violent clashes between farmers and herdsmen, particularly in Nigeria’s north-central states. Speaking on Wednesday during a courtesy visit on…
by John Ameh The House of Representatives on Tuesday summoned the Minister of Defence, Gen. Aliyu Gusau (retd.), to explain the circumstances leading to the massacre of over 200 villagers by suspected Fulani herdsmen in Zamfara State last Sunday.The attackers, said to be armed with sophisticated military weapons, had killed the villagers in Unguwar Galadima.Many…
Joseph Kwaji, Taraba State Police Command has confirmed that gunmen on Tuesday killed 10 people in Jibu Village in Wukari Local Government Area of the state.The police spokesperson, told journalists in Jalingo that the suspected assailants also burn0t more than 20 houses.“Yes, I can confirm to you that at about 5 a.m. today, a group…