OFFICERS of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), who investigated Process and Industrial Developments (P & ID), are still on suspension, despite the United Kingdom (UK) court verdict against Irish firm, a lawyer, Mr. Wahab Shittu, has said. Shittu, who is counsel to suspended EFCC Chairman Ibrahim Magu, described the judgment, which favoured the Federal Government, as a vindication of his client. He said it was fulfilling that the judge of the UK Commercial Court, Sir Ross Cranston, last Thursday, noted that EFCC did a good investigation on P&ID. The anti-graft agency was under Magu’s watch during the investigation.…
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Many lives have been lost in a multiple car crash on Sunday night in Akungba Akoko, Akoko southwest local government area of Ondo state. Mr. Tolu Babaleye, a social media commentator and indigene of the town confirmed the incident as very tragic. “This accident is terrible, over 7 vehicles involved. Many are dead and many are missing. May God heal the land!,” he stated on his Facebook profile. An eyewitness who narrated the incident said a trailer had a brake failure, which led to the death of about 6 people at the post office area of the…
One of the controversial housemates in the Big brother Naija, Lockdown edition, Erica Ngozi Nlewedim, popularly identified as Erica has been evicted from the Season 5 edition of the reality show. Erica, in her eighth week in the Big brother house happened to be the head of house two times throughout her time in the house.
The Lagos State Government on Sunday announced the reopening of two of its recreational parks for public use, stressing that visitors to the parks must comply with the subsisting COVID-19 protocols. Mrs Titilayo Ajirotutu, the Assistant Director, Public Affairs, Lagos State Parks and Gardens (LASPARK), disclosed this in a statement made available to newsmen in Lagos. According to Ajirotutu, the reopened recreational facilities are the Ndubisi Kanu Park in Alausa and the Dr Abayomi Finnish Park in Oregun, Ikeja. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the state had closed down all parks at the wake of the Coronavirus…
PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari will depart Abuja Monday for Niamey, Niger Republic to participate in the Fifty-Seventh Ordinary Session of the ECOWAS Authority of Heads of State and Government. The one-day summit will deliberate on the Special Report on COVID-19 to be presented by President Buhari who was appointed the ECOWAS Champion on the Fight against COVID-19 during the Extraordinary Virtual Summit of ECOWAS on April 23, 2020. This will be the second time President Buhari will be travelling out of the country since the outbreak of the dreaded Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. In a statement issued by the Senior Special Assistant…
The Ondo State Government has promised to build more laboratories centres across the state to curb infectious diseases, saying more than 100 people have been killed by deadly Coronavirus and Lassa Fever in the state in the last eight months. The State Commissioner for Health, Dr Jibayo Adeyeye, stated this while speaking with a team of officials from the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on the inspection of the ongoing molecular biology laboratory and the new isolation centre projects at the University of Medical Sciences Teaching Hospital, Ondo town. Adeyeye who noted that Lassa fever is more deadly than…
The Nigerian defense Headquarters has reacted to a security alert by the Nigerian Customs about a plot by Terrorist sect, Boko Haram to attack certain areas in the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Abuja. In a statement on a Sunday signed by Major General John Enenche, the DHQ was ontop of the matter. The statement read; “The Defence Headquarters wish to reassure residents of FCT and other adjoining States that the Armed Forces of Nigeria and other security agencies have been on red alert to combat crime and ensure effective surveillance of the Federal Capital Territory and other States of the…
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has told a Federal High Court in Abuja, that the Comrade Adams Oshiomhole-led National Working Committee (NWC) was sacked to solve the internal leadership crises rocking the party. The party also said that immediately the Caretaker/Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee was put in place after the NWC’s dissolution, the crises that had characterised its affairs were laid to rest. Reacting to a suit challenging the dissolution of its NWC filed by one of its chieftains, Mr Kalu Kalu Agu, APC said further that the present suit challenging the NWC dissolution effected on June 25, 2020, was…
Federal Government has donated assorted food items for distribution to 26,067 households who were victims of Boko Haram insecurity and floods in Borno. Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Hajiya Sadiya Farouq, said this on Sunday while briefing the state Deputy Governor, Alhaji Umar Kadafur in Maiduguri. Farouq said was in Maiduguri to also discuss the immediate humanitarian needs of the state. “I am here on behalf of Vice President Yemi Osinbajo and members of the National Humanitarian Coordination Committee (NHCC), to discuss the immediate humanitarian needs of your state. “I will also like to use this…
The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has flayed the Federal Government over the recent increase in the pump price of Premium Motor Spirit, PMS, otherwise known as petrol as well as the electricity tariff. The Akure zone of ASUU, which frowned over the development after its zonal meeting at the Federal University of Technology, Akure, FUTA, also condemned the proposed plans to re-open schools. According to the Union during a press briefing over the weekend, the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC has not been forthcoming over the anti-masses policies of the federal government. The zonal coordinator of the Akure zone…