Nigeria has given distribution contractors 60 days to complete their contracts on power projects as the contract would be terminated if not completed within the stipulated period. At a meeting with the transmission and distribution companies yesterday at the Presidential Villa, Vice President Namadi Sambo mandated the Managing Director, Niger Delta Power Holding Company…
Details have emerged at the Chelmsford Crown Court in London of how 21-year-old Nigerian student Emmanual Kalejaiye made meticulous plans before murdering his 44-year-old accountant mother Tolu Kalejaiye at their family home in Wethersfield Way, Wickford, on September 26 last year. Mrs. Kelajaiye, who worked as an accountant at TAK Consulting Limited in the United…
24hrs after he floored the State Security Service at a Federal High Court in Lagos over the seizure of his international passport following his suspension, on February 20, as Central Bank Governor (CBN), Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi today recorded a double over the Nigerian Government. His second straight victory came when another Federal High Court…
Delta State Police Command has announced the arrest of a suspect even as it intensifies efforts to rescue Mr Ebikeme Clark, son of elder statesman and National Conference delegate, Chief Edwin Clark. Clark Junior was abducted on Wednesday evening in his hometown, Kiagbodo in Burutu Local Government Area of Delta State. Speaking with newsmen yesterday…
Justice Saliu Saidu of the Federal High Court in Lagos on Thursday heard how 19-year-old Igbozuruike Onyinyechi was lured into prostitution in Burkina Faso, and forced to sleep with ten men everyday. Onyinyechi, who stated this while being led in evidence by counsel to the National Agency for Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP), Mrs…
By Wale OdunsiA Federal High Court, Lagos on Thursday fixed June 19 to hear a suit filed by seven Igbo deportees, challenging an alleged breach of their fundamental human rights.The plaintiffs are: Joseph Aniebonam, Osondu Mbuto, Osondu Agwu, Nnenna Ogbonna, Emily Okoroariri, Friday Ndukwe and Onyeka Ugwu.They sued on behalf of 76 others.Joined as respondents…
The Ebonyi State Police Command, yesterday, paraded a 30-year-old Nwode Chukwudi Awam, for beheading his father, Michael Awam, 56, and eating the victim’s neck at Egwudinagu Obegu village in Ebonyi Local Government Area of the state. The State Police Public Relations Officer, Assistant Superintendent of Police Chris Anyanwu, said: “The Ebonyi State Command has arrested…
Justice J.T. Tsoho gave the order on Friday in a suit filed by Mr. Sanusi through his counsel, Kola Awodehin. A Federal High Court in Lagos has given a preservatory order restraining the Financial Reporting Council of Nigeria, FRCN, from investigating the suspended Central Bank Governor, Lamido Sanusi. Justice J.T. Tsoho gave the order on…
by The City Reporters The City ReportersThe protesters were allowed into the state government house after hours of struggle Abia State University (ABSU) students have lashed out at Governor Theodore A. Orji for his inability to address the terrible state of education and dilapidated roads in the state. The students, who protested at the state…
Labour rocked the National Conference today, alleging that the Secretariat of the Conference had amended the records of proceedings to allow it powers to appoint Chairmen and Deputy Chairmen of Committees. The allegation was made by the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) during a joint press briefing held this morning…