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The arraignment of the Managing Director of Access Bank Plc, Mr Herbert Nwigwe, and eight others by the Special Fraud Unit (SFU) of Nigeria Police for alleged $6.3 million fraud was stalled yesterday at a Lagos High Court, Ikeja. Some of the defendants did not show up. Nwigwe is standing trial alongside Cast Oil and Gas Limited, Seyi Sanni, Adekunle ... Read More »

Clara made the request while responding to the dissolution of their 11-year marriage as filed by Sulivan Chime on Thursday. She told the court that she was ready to be divorced from her husband, and prayed that the custody of their son be given to her, with child maintenance fee of N500,000 monthly. Clara told the court that her son ... Read More »

….Court reserves judgments on four appeals The Osun State Governor, Adegboyega Oyetola, his party, the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) have asked the Court of Appeal in Abuja to uphold the victory of Oyetola and APC in the governorship election held in the state on September 22 and 27, 2018. Their request is contained ... Read More »

  For widows numbering over a hundred and the youths of Arochukwu Local Government Area of Abia State, there wouldn’t be a better way to celebrate Easter than they experienced through the benevolence of the Chairman of Etoks Communications, Deacon Iyke Kanu. The ancient war city came alive on Saturday, 21st April 2019 with widows’ empowerment preceded by the third ... Read More »

President Muhammadu Buhari’s anti-corruption battle got a ‘pass mark’ from an unusual quarter yesterday. It was rated above average by Prof Wole Soyinka. The literary giant, however, scored the President below average on the anti-terror war. Soyinka spoke on the Bristish Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) programme, Hardtalk, anchored by Zeinab Badawi on Monday. Appraising the anti-graft battle, Soyinka said:  ”We have this ... Read More »

The Nigeria Medical Association and National Association of Resident Doctors have described as “unfortunate” the Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr. Chris Ngige’s statement on brain drain in the medical sector. Ngige, who spoke on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily on Wednesday, said he was not bothered that medical doctors are leaving Nigeria in droves, saying that the nation has a ... Read More »

  Former General Secretary of the National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas (NUPENG) Comrade Frank Kokori on Thursday shared emotional tears when Organised Labour stood solidly behind him to insist he be inaugurated as Chairman of the Board of the Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund (NSITF). This was after the Minister of Labour and Employment dropped his name and ... Read More »

President Muhammadu Buhari has signed into law the Minimum Wage Repeal and Re-Enactment Act, 2019 By this act, the new minimum wage is now N30,000. The President assented to the Act on Thursday in Abuja, mandating all employers of labour across the country to pay workers a minimum of N30,000 monthly wage. The National Assembly had submitted the minimum wage ... Read More »

  The erstwhile Chief Justice of Nigeria, Walter Onnoghen, pleaded ‘No comment’ when the Code of Conduct Tribunal Chairman, Danladi Umar, asked him if he had anything to say before his conviction. The incident happened on Thursday (today) in Abuja as the CCT ruled in the six counts bordering on breach of Code of Conduct for Public Officers preferred against ... Read More »

An Ikeja High Court on Thursday rendered a copy of the Department of State Security (DSS) report to the Nigerian Senate on Mr Ibrahim Magu, the Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) inadmissible. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Justice Doris Okuwobi in a ruling during the ongoing N5billion libel suit filed by Magu ... Read More »