Effort to reduce unemployment among youths in the country has just received additional boost with the commissioning of Nestlé Nigeria Technical Training Centre, TTC, at the company’s Flowergate Factory in Ogun State. The newest centre is the third facility, set up in Ogun State by Nestlé to help young people build the capabilities and skills they need to contribute towards accelerating industrialisation. Already, Anthonia Ehibor, one of the 20 trainees admitted into an 18-month Technical Training program at the Flowergate TTC facility is optimistic of the deliverables the training centre offers. The indigene of Edo State with an Ordinary National Diploma,…
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The Police in Ogun have arrested three persons alledgedly involved in the killing of a couple, Mr. Kehinde and Mrs. Bukola Fatinoye and their only son Oreoluwa Fatinoye. The Ogun State Police Public Relations Officer, SP. Abimbola Oyeyemi disclosed this to journalists in Abeokuta on Friday. The names of three suspects are given as; Lekan Adekanbi a.k.a Koroba, Ahmed Odetola a.k.a Akamo and Waheed Adeniji a.k.a Koffi. The trio were arrested for the gruesome murder of the family following painstaking intelligence based investigation embarked upon by men of the Ogun State Police Command. “The couple were killed in the most…
Justice Ramon Oshodi of the Sexual Offences Court in Ikeja has fixed March 16 for the continuation of trial of a Medical Director of Optimal Cancer Care Foundation, Dr. Olufemi Olaleye, who is accused of defiling his wife’s 16-year-old niece. The judge adjourned the trial after the Lagos State Government closed its case against the defendant on Friday. At the proceeding, Director of Public Prosecution, Dr. Babajide Martins, informed the court that the prosecution was ready to close its case after six witnesses had testified. Meanwhile, counsel to the defendant, Mr. Babatunde Ogala (SAN) informed the court that the defence…
The scheduled arraignment of a former President of the Nigerian Indigenous Shipowners Association, NISA, Chief Isaac Jolapamo, over alleged illegal possession of firearms before Justice Yellim Bogoro, of the Federal High Court, Ikoyi was stalled on Friday. When the matter was called by the court registrar, the defendant was absent, but his counsel was in court to represent him. The police had in charge number FHC/L/404c/22 accused the Jolapamo of being in possession of several illegal firearms namely, Mar-22 calibre rifle, pump-action firearm, and a Double-barrel, all without lawful authorisation. The charges filed against him read: “In the 3-count charge…
The Nigeria Police Force, NPF, says the call for the sack and imprisonment of the Inspector-General of Police by some retired officers are baseless, malicious, and mischievous as it is inconsistent with the provisions of the Public Service Rules on the basis for retirement from public service. This is as the Spokesperson for the NPF, CSP. Olumuyiwa Adejobi said the police has filed an appeal against the judgement delivered in favour of the retired police officers. CSP. Adejobi said, “The said judgment, which has been appealed in suit number: NICN/AB/21M/2023 filed by the Nigeria Police legal team on Wednesday 8th…
A Lagos State judge, Justice Modupe Nicole-Clay has reserved ruling seeking the release of an auto dealer, Ikechukwu Ogbonna accused of causing the death of his wife, Abimbola Martins Ogbonna in a fire incident. The applicant/defendant sought to get a temporary reprieve from prison custody after approaching a court in Lagos on Thursday. Ogbonna was earlier remanded by an Ebute-Metta Magistrate court over a manslaughter charge slammed on him by Lagos State Government following the death of his wife at their Lekki residence last October. He sought the bail pending his formal arraignment before a yet-to-be assigned judge, in order to care…
Multiple accident at Kara bridge along Lagos Ibadan expressway has resulted into the death of one person, while many were injured on Thursday morning. Federal Road Safety Corps, FRSC, says the accident occured as a result of a brake failure from a Mack truck. The accident according to Route Commander Olabisi Sonusi, the Public Education Officer of FRSC, Lagos involved seven vehicles. Sonusi disclosed that following the death of a person in the accident, his corpse has been taken by the Kara Hausa community for burial according to Islamic rites while the injured persons were taken to Accident and Emergency…
Family of late Abimbola Martins Ogbonna, have taken their concerns to the State Security, Service, DSS, in Abuja over alleged threat to life of Mrs. Folashade Samuel, elder sister to late Mrs. Abimbola Ogbonna by Ikechukwu Ogbonna cohorts. In a copy of the petition to the Service made available to CASEFILE, on Wednesday and dated January 7, 2023 on behalf of the family, the family’s lawyer, Odiana Eriata Esq., urged the DSS to investigate this latest threat to the life of another member of the late Abimbola Martins Ogbonna family without any delay, this time Mrs. Folashade Samuel. According to…
A renowned Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Ola Olanipekun, has called on the Inspector-General of Police, to comply with a court order that committed the Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Abdulrasheed Bawa to prison for contempt. Olanipekun, who said Bawa was trying to cause anarchy in the country by flagrantly disobeying court orders, said Bawa had recently been committed to prison in a similar ruling by a Federal Capital Territory High Court in November. He said this just as the office of the IGP received and acknowledged the order committing Bawa to prison on Wednesday. Speaking…
An Engineer, Mr. Samuel Oladele has approached the court over persistent threat to his life by the Nigeria Police and suspected land grabbers. Oladele, through suit number: ID/14897/MFHR/2023 filed before a Lagos State High Court, Ikeja Judicial Division, through his lawyer, Adetayo Bello, prayed the court to stop his continued harassment and intimidation by the men of Nigeria Police. He named the affected police officers in a fundamental enforcement rights suit to include: the Inspector General of Police and the Commissioner of Police General Investigation Section ‘D’ Department, DCP. Sheik M. Danko. Others fingered in the alleged illegal act are:…