The Social Economic Rights and Accountability Project, SERAP, has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to “instruct Mr. Lai Mohammed, Minister of Information and Culture, and the National Broadcasting Commission, NBC, to urgently withdraw the ‘last warning’ and threat to revoke the licenses of broadcast stations and shut them down over their coverage of elections and post-election matters.” The group is giving this warning on the heels of last week’s threat by the NBC to revoke the licenses of broadcast stations and shut them down “if they continue to allow unpatriotic individuals on their platforms to make utterances that are subversive, hateful, and inciting, and negative…
Author: Funke Busari
A former Vice-Chancellor of Elizade University, Ilara-Mokin, Ondo State, Professor Adekunle Oloyede, is dissatisfied with the judgement of an Ondo State Magistrate Court sitting in Akure, the state capital over an allegation of theft, which he is appealing. Hence, he has approached the Ondo State High Court to set aside his the conviction. He has brought an application before the court on the argument that he was wrongly adjudged guilty. His ordeal began when Chief Magistrate Aderemi Adegoroye, delivered a judgement on 25th January 2023, convicted the Professor Oloyede guilty of a six-count charges of conspiracy to steal, obtain by false pretence,…
Executive Director, Commercial, NASCON Allied Industries, Fatima Aliko Dangote has revealed that the Dangote Group has invested in innovative technologies and processes to achieve gender equality and empowerment of all women in the organisation. Besides, Fatima disclosed that women are playing pivotal roles in the success story of the Dangote Group. To drive transformative change, she said the company is implementing the policy of continuous improvement in its production processes with state-of-the-art production facilities, which are already being managed by women. Speaking while opening the International Women’s Day Conference in Lagos and Dangote Cement Plc, Obajana Plant, Fatima noted that the company, through its Learning Management System, LMS,…
The Chief Executive Officer, CEO, of Seplat Energy Plc, Mr. Roger Brown can no longer stay or work in Nigeria. This is as a result of the revocation of his work permit and visa by the Ministry of Interior. His offence bothers on alleged racism, favouring of foreign workers and discrimination against Nigerian employees levelled against him by employees of the company. Other allegation against Mr. Brown according to the Federal Government of Nigeria is that he is in possession of a Combined Expatriate Residence Permit and Aliens Card, CERPAC, not based on a valid Expatriate Quota. He was also accused…
Four suspected electoral offenders arrested have been handed over by Lagos State Police Command to the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, for prosecution. This is according to the Police Public Relations Officers in Lagos, SP Benjamin Hundeyin on Friday. The Police Spokesperson disclosed that out of 23 persons arrested during Presidential and National Assembly elections in Lagos State, six of them were allegedly found to be culpable for electoral and criminal acts. SP. Hundeyin communicated that two males and two females were handed over to INEC for alleged unlawful possession of Permanent Voters’ Card, PVCs and diversion of sensitive electoral…
A-54-year-old Nigerian, Charity Omoruyi, alias ‘Jeff Joy’, who hails from Ego Local Government Area of Edo State, has been extradited to Italy for crimes of human trafficking, exploitation for prostitution, slavery, and abetting of unlawful migration. This was disclosed by Vincent Adekoye, Press Officer, National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons, NAPTIP. According to the Spokesperson in a statement recently, he said Omoruyi who was already convicted in absentia by the Court of Assizes of Appeal of Ancoma in June 2012, was successfully extradited, as she is one of the most-wanted criminals in Italy. Below is the statement…
Emmanuel TV, the broadcasting arm of Synagogue Church Of All Nations, SCOAN, has marked its 17th year anniversary. Commemorating the event on Thursday, at its Ikotun-Egbe international headquarters, Pastor Mrs Evelyn TB Joshua, leader of SCOAN thanked God for the life of the founder, God’s General Pastor TB Joshua whom God gave the vision to establish Emmanuel TV. She also expressed gratitude to members and partners all over the world for their steadfastness and commitment to the success of Emmanuel TV which she said had been sustained by love, the greatest christian virtue. “Emmanuel TV today has become a phenomena…
The Chief Executive Officer, CEO of Seplat Energy Plc, Mr. Rogers Brown has been sacked by a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos. This order continues until the end of the suit instituted against him by the aggrieved shareholders of the Company. The suit is the climax of allegations of racism, favouring of expatriate workers, discrimination against Nigerians, and breach of good governance. Others affected by the order is the Chairman, Board of Directors, Mr. Basil Omiyi, and all the Non-Executive Directors under him from “continuing to run the affairs of Seplat in an illegal, unfair, prejudicial, and oppressive manner…
Justice Mohammed Jibril of the Upper Area Court of Nasarawa State sitting in Maraba, Gurku, has ordered the Deputy Inspector General of Police, Force CID, Area 10, Garki and two banks Managing Directors to appear before it or face committal proceedings. The affected banks are Standard Chartered Bank Plc and Access Bank Plc. The order was sequel to an alleged order obtained by the Police from the Magistrate Court in the state to authorise the frozen of an account of a customer in the two banks in Lagos State. Justice Jibril ordered the defendants to appear before the court over…
The Lagos State Emergency Management Authority, LASEMA says it has recovered two bodies said to be staff of the State civil service from the mangled Bus Rapid Transit, BRT Bus crushed by a train in Ikeja area of Lagos. The accident happened early Thursday morning. Four among the 84 passengers rescued were reported dead on getting to the hospital. Report adds that the State Government staff bus was trying to cross the PWD/Sogunle rail crossing while the train coming into Lagos from Abeokuta trapped the bus on its rail. It was gathered that two Nigerian Railway Corporation flag officers reportedly tried…