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…
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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…
A self proclaimed prophet, Olushola Akinsipe is standing trial for alledged defilement of a 13-year-old visually-impaired girl before Justice Hakeem Oshodi, of the Lagos High court in Ikeja. The defendant was said to have committed the act when the minor was taken to him for a spiritual cleansing over witchcraft. Testifying on Wednesday, a medical doctor, Dr. Sekinat Oredoyin, told the trial judge that the defendant defiled the visually-impaired girl under the pretext of praying for her. The Public Health Physician who works at Yaba Local Council Development Area said she examined the 13 years. While being led in evidence by…
The Women Advocates Research and Documentation Centre, WARDC has given the Inspector General of Police, IGP Usman Alkali Baba, a 14-day ultimatum to find one Baby Joseph who it claimed is in possession of a Police officer, Samuel Ukpabio. Inspector Ukpabio attached to the the State Criminal Investigation Department, Yaba in Lagos alledgedly took the child away from his mother, Fortunate Obafuoso, while claiming to be acting for a government ministry. The ultimatum is with effect from Wednesday 8th March, and expected to last till March 22, 2023, else the women will March on the street of Lagos to attract national…
Trail of a former Director-General, Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA, Patrick Akpobolokemi has been adjourned till Friday, March 24, 2023 for adoption of final written addresses in relation to their no-case submissions on Monday. Akpobolokemi and Ezekiel Bala Agaba are standing trial over alledged N754.8 million fraud, before Justice Raliat Adebiyi of the Lagos State High Court, Ikeja. The defendants who are alleged to have defrauded NIMASA, were initially charged alongside Governor Juan, Vincent Udoye, Ekene Nwakuche, Adegboyega Olopoenia and a company, Gama Marine Nigeria Limited before the charge was amended to involve only both of them. During…
Ruling has been reserved for April 3, in the trial of the suspended Assistant Superintendent of Police, ASP, Drambi Vandi, who allegedly killed a Lagos-based lawyer, Omobolanle Raheem, on December 25. This is as the defence counsel, Mr. Adetokunbo Odutola, in adopting his final written address on a no-case submission, which was filed on February 20, 2023 asked the court to dismiss the suit and discharge the defendant claiming that he has no case to answer. Therefore, Justice Ibironke Harrison of the Lagos State High Court sitting at the Tafawa Balewa Square, TBS, Annex, Lagos Island on Monday adjourned the…
The Lagos State Government through the Ministry of Justice says it will resist any request to exhume the corpse of Whitney Omodesola Adeniran, the student of Chrisland School, electrocuted at an inter-house sport in Agege Stadium, Lagos. This information was disclosed by Alo Grace, Director Public Affairs of the government agency in a statement on Sunday. Below is the statement The Lagos State Ministry of Justice is aware of the current ongoing dialogue about the alleged plans to exhume the body of the late Whitney Omodesola Adeniran, a student of Chrisland Schools whose death as revealed by the autopsy, conducted…
Armed robbers allegedly terrorising communities in Lagos State have been arrested in separate operations, according to the Police. The suspects, six in number, the Lagos State Police Command, SP Benjamin Hundeyin said were arrested by police detectives. They were said to belong to two different gangs, notorious for dispossessing unsuspecting victims of their valuables within Ajegunle and Alaba-Rago areas of Lagos State. The arrest of Chukwuemeka Emmanuel, 21, Chukwuebuka Innocent, 24, Umaru Isah, 21, Emmanuel Ita,19, Olaitan Ayinde, 18 and Moshood Ayinde, 25 followed swift investigations into reports of activities of the robbers in the areas. The Police claims, the…
The Police personnel who participated in election duties in the recently held Presidential and National Assembly elections on Saturday, 25th February, 2023 have been paid their allowances. This was communicated through the Police Public Relations Officer, CSP Olumuyiwa Adejobi on Sunday. This confirmation was necessitated as news circulating in the media has it that some Police Officers have been denied the payment of their accrued allowances; and such delay has not gone down well with the force. The Spokesman however urges all officers and men who are yet to receive payment of the election allowances to take up such matters…