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 National Industrial Court of Nigeria, Abuja Division (NICN), has fined Leadership Newspapers and its Publisher, Sam Nda-Isaiah 31percent interest on outstanding N1.2 million debt it owed his former employee whose employment was terminated in 2015 under controversial circumstances. The Presiding Judge of the NICN, Hon. Justice Oyewumi Oyebola gave the judgement in a recent ruling in a suit NO: NICN/ABJ/27/2019 ... Read More »

The lawmakers also accused the NDDC of refusal to submit its performance budget since 2018. A forensic audit is ongoing in the NDDC after the commission squandered N40bn in three months. The NDDC was also involved in the spending of N5bn for the procurement of Personal Protective Equipment for health workers and provision of community-based sensitisation campaign against the spread ... Read More »

Another corrupt activity involving Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Mudashiru Obasa, has been exposed.   In this latest expose, Obasa and his protocol officer, a lady alleged to be his mistress, took over the responsibility of the House Committee on Services charged with welfare of members of the Assembly by approving N40,500,000 for feeding of less than 40 ... Read More »

Fomer Chief Judge of Anambra State  Prof. Peter Nnanna C. Umeadi and a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Louis Alozie have praised President Muhammadu Buhari for signing Executive Order No.  10 of  2020 which grants financial autonomy  to states legislature. In a tweet on his Twitter handle Prof. Umeadi, now a chieftain of All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) said: “With humility, ... Read More »

     Muslims are to continue fasting on Saturday, The Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA) has declared. Its National Moonsighting Committee said no moon was sighted in Nigeria on Friday. The committee tweeted on Friday: “There was no positive sighting report of the Shawwal crescent in Nigeria, tomorrow is 30th Ramadan. An official statement from the Sultanate will be ... Read More »

The Federal High Court sitting in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, has delivered the long-awaited judgement on Ese Oruru, a teenager reportedly abducted, taken to Kano State and forced into marriage by one Yinusa Dahiru. The court presided over by Justice Jane Inyang sentenced Dahiru to 26 years in prison. Jane acquitted Dahiru on Count one but jailed him five years (count ... Read More »

Operatives in the office of the Assistant Inspector General (AIG) Osogbo are grilling no fewer than eight top pastors of the Christ Apostolic Church(CAC) over a leadership battle tearing a faction of the Supreme Council apart. They are being interrogated over allegations of conspiracy, stealing, impersonation and swearing to a false oath, among others. Their interrogation followed a petition by ... Read More »

The police in Lagos have arrested a 50-year-old man Tyndale Ede for alleged defilement of his 19-year-old daughter since she was 11. Eden was arrested on May 9 following a complaint by his wife (names withheld) at Ikotun Police Division. It was alleged that the suspect’s incestuous behaviour was discovered by the woman at their Kajola Street, Ikotun residence after ... Read More »

288 new cases of #COVID19; 179-Lagos 20-Kaduna 15-Katsina 15-Jigawa 13-Borno 11-Ogun 8-Kano 7-FCT 4-Niger 4-Ekiti 3-Oyo 3-Delta 3-Bauchi 2-Kwara 1-Edo 5445 cases of #COVID19 in Nigeria Discharged: 1320 Deaths: 171 Read More »

Former Niger Delta Affairs Minister Godsday Orubebe’s wife Maureen, has been grilled by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) over a N500 million deal linked to the $1.092 billion Malabu Oil Block scandal. Mrs. Orubebe is also being investigated for alleged money laundering. She was alleged to have bought three assets from the company of one of the suspects ... Read More »