Author: Titilope Joseph

The Chairman of the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), Dr. Musa Adamu Aliyu, SAN, has reaffirmed his commitment to support the Service Compact with All Nigerians (SERVICOM) in ensuring effective service delivery to the nation. Dr. Aliyu made this known during an advocacy visit to the Commission’s Headquarters by SERVICOM led by its National Coordinator and Chief Executive Officer, Mrs.  Nnenna Akajemeli. According to him, the quality of governance is determined by the quality of services delivered to citizens and the extent to which these services meet their expectations, therefore ICPC is entrusted with the critical…

Justice Deinde Dipeolu of a Lagos Federal High Court, on Thursday, fixed September 12, for hearing of all applications on the forfeited monies and properties linked to a former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mr. Godwin Ifeanyi Emefiele. It would be recall that Justice Akintayo Aluko had on August (15) ordered interim forfeiture of a cash sum $2, 045 million USD, and some landed properties linked to the embattled former CBN Governor. The judge granted the forfeiture order, after taking submission of Rotimi oyedepo (SAN), leading led Chineye Okezie and Zeenat Atiku-Bala, who filed and moved an…

A Lagos Chief Magistrate’s Court, has remanded a chieftain of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) Ganiyu Ayinde Oyedepo, a.ka. Kokosaria, in prison custody, following his arraignment  on alleged offences of conspiracy, assault occasioning harm and conduct likely to cause breach of public peace. Chief Magistrate B. Sonuga, remanded the NURTW chieftain, after he pleaded not guilty to the charges, made against him by the operative of the Force Criminal Investigation Department (ForceCID), Alagbon, Ikoyi, Lagos. Kokosaria was arraigned before the court on Thursday , in a charge marked B/40/2024, by Barrister Morufu Animashaun, a legal officer in…

Presidential candidate of the Social Democratic Party, SDP, in the 2023 general election, Prince Adewole Adebayo has harped on the need for the government to invest massively in public transportation as one of the sure ways out of the current petroleum crisis in the nation. Adebayo, a lawyer by training, similarly. advised the federal government to start treating the issue of fuel supply and energy as national security, just the way the United States of America, Russia and United Kingdom are doing. While frowning at the current petroleum hardship being faced nationally by Nigerians, coupled with the ever increasing pump…

The Federal Government has sought more support and assistance of the United Nations Systems in its quest to achieve food security in the country. Senate Abubakar Kyari, Minister of Agriculture and Food Security, stated this in Abuja when Dr. Amina Mohammed, United Nations Deputy Secretary-General to Nigeria visited the headquarters of the Ministry to discuss the mutual partnership Nigeria has with the United Nations in the Agriculture and Food Security Sector. Kyari said: “As you know, with our large population and growing demand for food security, Nigeria’s partnership with the United Nations is critical to meet the attendant huge consumption…

President Bola Tinubu has said Africa holds vast opportunities for investments, growth, and development with its vibrant population, productive economy, and natural resources. Speaking at a bilateral meeting on Wednesday in Beijing, China, with Chinese Premier Li Qiang, President Tinubu commended the role of the Forum on China–Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) in advancing partnership between Africa and China for mutual development and prosperity. ”The African spirit for FOCAC is based upon mutual respect and partnership that promotes development, happiness, peace, and stability for our people. We are in this journey together. We believe that we share common interests, which are investments…

Ahead of the meeting of the National Executive Council (NEC) of the All Progressive Congress (APC) slated for September 12, the APC North Central Forum has alleged that some individuals and groups have been bribed and recruited by some enemy forces to betray the North Central region by endorsing the embattled National Chairman,  Abdullahi Ganduje. In a statement issued to newsmen in Jos the Plateau State capital on Tuesday by the forum’s chairman, Alhaji Saleh Mandung Zazzaga, the forum  Chairman alleged that  the desperation of the dark forces of the North Central region is already showing through their greed and…

Two staff of Keystone bank Limited, Ebele Bernardine Okpala and Perpetua Onyeto, have been arraigned before a Lagos Federal High Court, on charges bordering on alleged conspiracy, theft, money laundering and obtaining the sum of N35 million by false presence. The two bankers were arraigned by the Special Fraud Unit of the Nigeria Police, Ikoyi, Lagos. The prosecutor, Barrister Eliot Ejie, a Chief Superintendent of Police (CSP) told the court that the two bankers committed the offences sometimes in July 2023. CSP Ejie told the court that the first defendant, Ebele Bernardine Okpala, in connivance with the second defendant, Perpetua…