The news came like a thundering typhoon last week. For the first time in its 44 years history, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) had made a profit. Net profit after tax stood at N287 billion in Year 2020, sequel to the completion of the statutory Annual Audit exercise. What year? 2020. Year of the Coronavirus pandemic, when most of the world, including Nigeria, was under lockdown! And here was NNPC, recording profit first time in its history. How did it happen? How can it? Well, it happened because perhaps for the first time in the history of the country,…
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Justice Sikiru Oyinloye of the Kwara State High Court sitting in Ilorin on Thursday, September 2, 2021 sentenced one Olaleye Rosheed, a student of Federal Polytechnic, Offa, to one year imprisonment over offences bordering on attempted cheating and internet fraud. Olaleye, 21, was prosecuted on one count by the Ilorin Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC. The charge reads: “That you, Olaleye Rosheed (Christiana Lopez) sometime in January, 2021 at Ilorin, Kwara State, within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court pretended to be one Christiana Lopez, a white female with a gmail account, christianalopez105@gmail.com, and thereby…
New members of the Anti-Corruption and Transparency Unit (ACTU) of the National Center for Women Development have been inaugurated by the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC). The inauguration, which took place at the headquarters of the agency in Abuja, saw the new members take their oath of office in a solemn ceremony. Speaking at the event, the ICPC Chairman, Prof. Bolaji Owasanoye, SAN, represented by Mr. Emmanuel Dio of System Study and Review Department (SSRD), noted that the ACTU was very significant to government’s anti-corruption crusades in establishments. According to him, the ACTU was designed to…
The All Progressives Congress (APC) Caretaker/Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee (CECPC) has ratified the expulsion of the Party’s Caretaker Chairman of Yola South Local Government Area, Adamawa State, Alhaji Sulaiman Adamu. The Adamawa State Chapter of the party, had on August 10th 2021, suspended Adamu for allegedly attacking President Muhammadu Buhari on social media. Adamu, in audio circulated on social media, wished that coronavirus had inflicted President Buhari and killed him. According to a statement signed by party’s National Secretary, Sen. John James Akpanudoedehe, Adamu’s expulsion from the party takes immediate effect. The statement partly reads: The is part of the…
The Government of Oyo State has explained why the Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Olayiwola Adeyemi III and the Olubadan of Ibadanland, Oba Saliu Akanmu Adetunji, Aje Ogungunniso I, were prevented from gaining entry into remodelled Lekan Salami Stadium Complex during the unveiling of its main bowl on Wednesday, saying huge enthusiastic crowd obstructed the movement of the monarchs’ convoys to the designated VVIP Drop Off zone. The government, in a statement by the Chief Press Secretary to Governor Seyi Makinde, Mr. Taiwo Adisa, said that the two foremost royal fathers were too important to the state government to be…
Waking up from my bed On the 31st of August 2021, I picked up my phone to check the latest news, the first thing I saw was that Governor Seyi Makinde will commission a world class stadium tomorrow, I quickly checked my dictionary to see the full meaning of a world class stadium. From the definition given to me by my dictionary, I was so hopeful to see a standard stadium that can globally compete. My taught was that when commissioned, the world class stadium will be the best in Africa, some persons even compared the yet to be commissioned…
A Delta State High Court sitting in Asaba has restrained the Governor Mai-Mala Buni from parading himself as National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC). The ruling affected other members of Caretaker/Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee of the party. Justice Onome Marshal Umukoro, who presided over the matter, also stopped the Party’s scheduled LG Congress in Delta State slated for September 4, 2021. Olorogun Elvis Ayomanor, who is the APC Deputy Chairman in the state had led other officials of the party in the state to the Court, challenging the outcome of the Ward Congress in the State.
Justice Tijanni Garba Ringim of the Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos, on Wednesday, September 1, 2021, ordered the interim forfeiture of the sum of N5, 318,517,789.48 found in the account of a company, Kaiser Strategic Services Limited. Justice Ringim gave the order, following an ex parte application filed by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC. Moving the application on Wednesday, September 1, 2021, counsel to the Commission, Rotimi Oyedepo, told the court that the money was deposited in three accounts in tranches of N1,407,182,797.00, N2,275,525,493.17 and N1,635,809,499.31. He, therefore, urged the court to order the interim forfeiture…
Few days after Ward Congress Appeal Panels finished its assigned tasks, Governor Mai Mala-Buni led Caretaker/Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee (CECPC) has ratified the results of July 31st ward congresses of the All Progressives Congress (APC). The CECPC took the decision at its 16th meeting held at the National Secretariat (Buhari House) on Wednesday. The resolution signed by the party’s National Secretary, Sen. John James Akpanudoedehe reads: The All Progressives Congress (APC) Caretaker/Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee (CECPC) ratifies and adopts the results of the Party’s nationwide Ward Congresses held on Saturday July 31st, 2021. Accordingly, the CECPC approves the immediate inauguration…
Following the release warrants issued by Federal High Court in Abuja, Department of State Service (DSS) has released eight out of the 12 associates of Chief Sunday Adeyemo Igboho. The Igboho boys were arrested and detained by the DSS since July 1, 2021. Counsel to the Igboho boys, Pelumi Olajengbesi expressed the hope that the remaining four of the detainees would be released within the week after resolving some technical issues regarding to their release. Olajengbesi lamented that the DSS could not come up with any charge against the detainees after 60 days of detention and added that the DSS…