Residents and travellers plying the Sango-Abeokuta route had a bitter tale after the heavy downpour on Sunday. As against the usual flooding that they used to experience around this route, the windstorm wrecked havoc. Electricity supply affected due to damages to electric poles This time electric poles along this route were the worst hit as they were either uprooted or broken by the effect of the windstorm. A video trending showed lots of damage caused by the rain. Many vehicle owners were caught up having their vehicles damaged by the electric poles. Motorists were trapped on Sango route This resulted…
Author: Funke Busari
National Assembly orders the CEO of Alliance Hospital and Services, and others to face the organ harvesting charges before them
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, SERAP, has urged Nigeria’s 36 state governors and the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, Mr. Nyesom Wike, to provide documents on how they have spent their trillions of FAAC allocations since 1999. SERAP has also requested to publish the documents widely and urged the government to invite the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission,ICPC, and Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, to track and monitor the allocation of spending and investigate any corruption allegations linked to it. SERAP’s requests came after reports that the Federation Account Allocation Committee, FAAC, disbursed…
On May 2, Justice Oyindamola Ogala of the Lagos State High Court, Ikeja will rule on the admissibility of treasury receipts for the use of Agege Stadium where the death of Chrisland School student, Whitney Adeniran, allegedly occurred. During the continuation of the trial of staff and management of Chrisland School Limited, the Defence Counsel, Olukayode Enitan, SAN, to the third defendant proceeding, asked the Prosecution Witness, Mr. Yakubu Jubril, to identify some documents he claimed were government treasury receipts. The documents were dated 7th November 2018, January 8, 2020, September 26, 2016, and January 9, 2023, for payments for…
Pascal Okechukwu, alias Cubana Chief Priest, docked before a law court on Wednesday April 17, 2024 for alleged currency abuse.
At the continuation of the alleged murder trial of Chidinma Ojukwu, Dr. Richard Somiari, the 11th prosecution witness, stated that the DNA blood sample found on the defendant’s red dress matched that of the victim, Michael Usifo Ataga, the Chief Executive Officer Super TV. Somiari, a director and consultant at the Lagos State DNA and Forensic Centre, testified in a Lagos High Court located at Tafawa Balewa Square. Forensic expert testifies against Chidinma Ojukwu over Michael Ataga’s death Chidinma Ojukwu, a Mass Communication student at the University of Lagos, is being charged with the murder of Michael Ataga. She is being…
The Nigerian Police Force has recognised and awarded exemplary officers for their outstanding performance and dedication to duty in law enforcement
The Lagos State Coroner sitting in Ogba concluded that Sylvester Oromoni, a student of Dowen College, who was reported to have been bullied to death by some students of Dowen College in Lagos died of natural causes. Coroner cites parental, medical negligence for death of Sylvester Oromoni Magistrate Mikhail Kadiri while delivering the over 6 hours long verdict on Monday also blamed parental and medical negligence, for the avoidable death of the late 12 year-old JSS 1 student. Sylvester Oromoni Jnr., died in November 2021 under controversial circumstances for which he suffered “avoidable excruciating pain” due to parental and medical negligence,…
Monday Osazuwa, a Senior Supervisor with the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN Lagos Branch has disclosed that he collected $3million in cash for Godwin Emefiele, while he was Governor of the apex bank. The Prosecution Counsel to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Rotimi Oyedepo, (SAN), led the first prosecution witness in evidence at the commencement of the trial of the embattled former banker on Friday. Giving evidence before Justice Rahman Oshodi of Special Offences Court, Ikeja, Osazuwa, claimed he was initially a contract staff in 2001 as a dispatch rider when the first defendant was the Deputy Managing…
Justice Abimbola Awogboro of a Federal High Court, Lagos, has sentenced a cross-dresser/transgender, Idris Olanrewaju Okuneye, popularly known as Bobrisky to six months imprisonment without an option fine for abusing Nigeria currency. Recall that the controversial celebrity had pleaded guilty, following which the court had on April 5, convicted him on a one-count charge of abusing the Naira currency made against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC. The judge thereafter adjourned to last Thursday, for sentencing, but the day was declared as public holiday by the Federal government for the Eid-l-fitri celebration Delivering the judgement on Friday,…