Author: TheScrutinyNG

The Indian Community In Nigeria has congratulated their prime minister,, Narendra Modi, on the conferment of the Grand Commander of the Order of the Niger (GCON) on him by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu during his  two-day visit to Abuja. Prime Minister Modi, in his speech during the historic visit, expressed heartfelt gratitude and humility on the GCON award. Addressing a gathering of vibrant Ind ian Diaspora, Modi dedicated the honour to the people of India and the resilient Indian community residing in Nigeria. He noted that the vibrant Indian Diaspora in Nigeria serves as a crucial bridge connecting the two nations,…

Justice Mojisola Dada of the Special Offences Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos, on Monday, November 18, 2024, convicted and sentenced Fatuyi Yemi Philips, Chairman, Natural Oil and Gas Suppliers Association of Nigeria (NOGASA) to 21 years imprisonment for N43.5m fraud. The Lagos Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on April 5, 2022, arraigned Philips alongside his firm, Oceanview Oil and Gas Limited, on a two-count charge bordering on obtaining money by false pretence to the tune of N43,502,000.00. Count one reads: “Fatuyi Yemi Philips and Oceanview Oil and Gas Nigeria Limited, on or about the 28th…

A complex investigation by the United Kingdom (UK) police has led to four Nigerians being sentenced for violent disorder following an incident in Leicester in November 2021. The fight, which broke out during the early hours of Thursday 4 November 2021, involved weapons being used including knives and a baseball bat. A man, who was 18 at the time, suffered stab wound injuries in the incident requiring hospital treatment. After the suspects left the scene, police enquiries carried out over the following few months included CCTV analysis, phone work and public appeals which led to identifications being made. Thursday 14…

The Super Eagles were on Monday pegged 2-1 by 2026 World Cup qualifying rivals Rwanda in a final 2025 AFCON qualifier in Uyo. It was the first win by Rwanda over Nigeria at full international level. Despite the disappointing home loss, the Super Eagles won Group D with 11 points from six matches. Rwanda finished on eight points, but failed to qualify after Benin held hosts Libya to a goalless draw in Tripoli to go through to Morocco 2025 on better goals difference. The Super Eagles opened scoring in the 59th minute courtesy of the individual brilliance of substitute Samuel Chukwueze.…

Three members of the Community Vigilante Services (AVS) were on Monday killed by gunmen suspected to be enforcing Sit-At-Home in Ukpo, Dunukofia Local Government Area of Anambra State and set their vehicle ablaze. Seven others, SaharaReporters reports, were injured during the attack. The attackers also stormed Abatete community in Idemili North, resulting in one reported death. However, one man suspected to be the President General of Ukpo town and a vigilante narrowly escaped death. They, however, sustained varying degrees of bullet wounds. Seven others were injured during the attack. The attackers also stormed Abatete community in Idemili North, resulting in…

In its desire to exceed a membership size of 20 million before the 2027 general election, the opposition Labour Party (LP)  has launched an online membership registration and revalidation application. The party also announced the release of its timetable for the congresses starting with the ward up to state levels which will commence immediately with membership revalidation. According to a communique issued at the end of its National Executive Council (NEC) meeting held virtually on Saturdayand signed by Obiora Ifoh, the party’s National Publicity Secretary, the LP also approved the restructuring of the Directorate of Mobilization and Integration while it…

The United Nations Special Committee that investigated Israeli practices against rights of Palestinians and other Arabs of occupied territories, in its report, found Israel’s warfare methods in Gaza consistent with genocide, including the use of starvation as a weapon of war. However, the United States disagreed with the UN committee’s findings. The United Nations Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Palestinian People and Other Arabs of the Occupied Territories was established by the UN General Assembly in December 1968 to examine the human rights situation in the occupied Syrian Golan, the West Bank, including…

An Officer of Department of State Service (DSS( attached to Kebbi State Command (names witheld), has assaulted a Correspondent of Authority newspaper, Mallam Shuaibu Zubair, when the journalist asked him to pay up his electricity bill. VANGUARD reports that the DSS officer, who got angry because his co-tenants reminded him that he only paid N4,000 out of N5,000 he ought to have paid, suddenly got angry, assaulted Mallam Zubair, who led other tenants to confront him six times and bragged that he could kill Zubair and nothing would happen. Briefing newsmen about his ordeal, Mallam Zubair explained that the DSS…

A chieftain of the pan-Yoruba socio-political group, Afenifere, Mr Kole Omololu, has said the short stay of President Bola Tinubu in office has shown signs of outperforming former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s record. Omololu said in a statement on Sunday that the emerging gains of the president’s recent economic reforms gave hope that the country indicated a trajectory of recovery, growth, and development. Reacting to the claim by Obasanjo at the weekend that Nigeria had become a failing state under President Tinubu, Omololu said the former president was incorrect given the increasing gains being made under the president. Delivering a keynote…

Former president, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, has said that the level of corruption in the country has passed the alarming and entered the fatal stage. He said this in his keynote address on the topic, ‘Leadership Failure and State Capture in Nigeria,’ delivered at the Chinua Achebe Leadership Forum, Yale University, New Haven, in the United States of America. The former president noted that the country will go into extinction “if we keep pretending that she is only slightly indisposed.” Obasanjo hinted that corruption continues to rank among the most important problems affecting Nigerians. He said: “More than N700 billion in…