Lagos State Magistrate Court sitting in Ebute Meta has ordered the remand of Ikechukwu Daryl Ogbonna in prison custody over the death of his wife, late Abimbola Martins Ogbonna. Ogbonna was remanded on Tuesday following the Director of Public Prosecution, DPP, advice that Ogbonna should be charged for involuntary manslaughter. Reading out the DPP Advice, Magistrate Adebayo Kafayat Tella said the defendant will be arraigned before the Lagos High Court, and should be remanded in custody pending his arraignment and filing of information against him. However, the Defence lawyer, Mr. Abubakar Yesufu prayed the court to allow the defendant be…
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Trial of Mr. Amaechi Ndili, and Mrs. Njide Chizoba Ndili, Chief Executive Officer and Vice President, Lionstone Offshore Services Limited began with an accountant, Mr. Godwin Okon testifying against them. The first prosecution witness, Mr. Okon who is also a business analyst manager at Hercules Offshore Nigeria Limited while giving evidence on Monday told Justice Olubunmi Abike-Fadipe of the Special Offences Court, Ikeja, that the defendants; Mr. Amaechi Ndili, Mrs. Njide Chizoba Ndili, and their companies; Lionstone Offshore Services Limited and Lionstone Company Limited entered into a contract agreement with Hercules and after the execution of the contract paid part…
The Department of State Services, DSS, says it has intercepted some members of organised syndicates involved in the sale of the new redesigned naira notes. Peter Afunanya, Public Relations Officer of the agency said some bank officials in the country are engaging in wrongdoing with the monies. Afunaya said, “In the course of its operations, in this regard in parts of the country, it was also established that some Commercial Bank officials are aiding the economic malfeasance.” The agency however warned the currency racketeers to desist from the act. It also encouraged appropriate regulatory authorities to step up monitoring and…
President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the Central Bank of Nigeria’s, CBN, request for the extension of the deadline for swapping of old Naira notes to the redesigned ones. The new deadline is January 31, 2023, to February 10, 2023. A seven-day grace period, beginning on February 10 to February 17, 2023, has also been approved to enable Nigerians to deposit their old notes at the CBN after the February deadline when the old currency would have lost its Legal Tender status. This followed the President’s meeting with the apex bank’s governor, Godwin Emefiele, in his country home in Daura, Katsina…
By Dennis Isong On the 24th of January, 2023, it was an honour for the Lagos State Government to receive the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, President Muhammadu Buhari to commission the 1.Dangote Oil Refinery 2. Lekki Deep Seaport 3. Imota Rice 4. 4th Mainland flag off All of these places are in Ibeju-Lekki axis. In the Lekki Free Zone Lagos, Nigeria, the Dangote Oil Refinery is a 650,000 barrels per day, BPD, integrated refinery project. It is anticipated to be both the largest single-train facility in the world and the largest oil refinery in Africa. With 1,100…
Can a lower court upturned the decision of the Supreme Court of Nigeria, the highest court of the land? This is the question that has been agitating the minds of many stakeholders following the verdict of a Federal High Court, Jalingo, which upturned the 2021 judgement of the Supreme Court in a suit filed by Senator Abubakar Sani Danladi. A Federal High Court sitting in Jalingo had in 2019 stopped Danaladi from parading himself as the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, three days to the election, in a case filed by Usman Udi, Joshua Paaku, George Geoffrey and Tanko…
Ex-Ikeja Branch Chairman of the Young Lawyers’ Forum, YLF, of the Nigerian Bar Association, Yusuf Temilola Nurudeen has been nominated as a member of the Nigerian Bar Association National Executive Committee, NBA-NEC. In his new role, Mr. Yusuf Nurudeen will be working closely with the National Executive Committee and 150 distinguished members of the Bar including 38 learned Senior Advocates of Nigeria, SANs. Nigerian Bar Association National Executive Committee, NBA-NEC, is the highest decision-making organ of the association. Pursuant to Section 8(6) of the NBA Constitution 2015 (as amended in 2021) the National Executive Council, NEC, subject to the provisions…
On January 27, the world will mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day, a symbolic date to commemorate the victims of Nazism. Murderous Nazi terror targeted millions for reasons of biology, nationality, or political ideology. But few people know that the Nazis’ victims included thousands of Jehovah’s Witnesses, who suffered for their Christian faith. Jehovah’s Witnesses, also then known as Bible Students, were “the only group in the Third Reich to be persecuted on the basis of their religious beliefs alone,” says Professor Robert Gerwarth. The Nazi regime branded Witnesses “enemies of the State,” according to historian Christine King, because of “their very…
At the continuation of trial of the medical doctor of Optimal Cancer Care Foundation, Dr. Olufemi Olaleye, an Investigative Police Officer, IPO, Insp Abe Leonard has testified as the sixth prosecution witness in the alledged defilement trial. Giving evidence before Justice Ramon Oshodi of a Lagos State Sexual Offences Court, Ikeja, on Thursday, Insp Leonard told the court he served at Anthony Police Station while being led in evidence by the State Counsel, Mr. Babajide Boye. In his testimony, the witness informed Justice Oshodi that the victim was 17 years old at the time the case was reported by the…
The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, has threatened to issue warrant of arrest against the Central Bank Governor, Godwin Emefiele, if he fails to appear next Tuesday. Femi Gbajabiamila’s threat was in response to another letter from the Central Bank, intimating the House of his inability to honour the invitation sent on the latest cashless policy. In a statement read on the floor of the House, the Speaker said he would not hesitate to invoke relevant sections of the Constitution to force the CBN Governor’s appearance.