Journalists under the umbrella of Crime Reporters Association of Nigeria, CRAN, and security stakeholders have called for more collaborative efforts to check drug abuse amongst the youths. They made the call on Monday in Lagos during the 2022 International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking organised by CRAN, themed: Addressing Drug Challenges in Health and Humanitarian Crisis. They pointed out that drug abuse, particularly, among the youths has gone to a state of emergency, as it now gives serious concern to security agencies, parents, teachers and those in authorities. The President of CRAN, Mr. Olalekan Olabulo, said that the…
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Justice Olukayode Ariwoola will be inaugurated today to replace Justice Ibrahim Tanko Muhammed who resigned his position as the Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, on health ground. This was confirmed by Ahuraka Yusuf Isah, the Media Aide to the immediate past CJN. He also confirmed the resignation of his Principal, Justice Ibrahim Tanko. Justice Olukayode Ariwoola will be inaugurated by the Presidency today at the Villa. Previously:
A Human Rights, Anti-Corruption, Policy and Legislative Advocacy Activist, Mr. Auwal Musa Rafsanjani has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to personally assess the nation’s health while also calling him to dare all his ministers to organise a public hearing on their scorecard and allow people to validate the government’s performance since mounting the leadership saddle. Rafsanjani in an open letter to President Buhari on Sunday, thought this is needful, noting that assessing things for himself will aid him in measuring the much transformation agenda which he touted his administration will uphold in the areas of security, economic and Anti-corruption. According to…
Report reaching CASEFILE says the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Hon. Ibrahim Tanko Mohammed has resigned. This has however not been confirmed by official source. Meanwhile, those who are privy to his resignation added that the number one Justice resigned on health ground. It will be recalled that, Justice Tanko who took over from Justice Walter Onnoghen under a controversial circumstances has recently been engrossed in crisis over his alleged mismanagement of the Apex Court funds. Although, he denied the allegation, but keen watcher argued that he might have lost the control of the Apex Court. The petition from his brother Justices…
A Brazilian returnee, Igwedum Uche Benson has been arrested at the arrival hall of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, MMIA, in Lagos by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, for concealing pellets of cocaine in his private part. According to the Director, Media & Advocacy, NDLEA, Mr. Femi Babafemi, the suspect had swallowed 50 wraps of cocaine before departing Brazil and excreted 48 pellets in Addis Ababa where he handed them over to another person. According to a statement signed by him, preliminary investigations reveal that Igwedum also claimed he was unable to excrete the remaining two…
Ijeoma Ikeagwu, estranged wife of Nollywood actor, Kalu has told an Ikeja High Court that her husband’s habit of smoking cannabis made her fearful of their children’s safety. This was her response at the last proceedings, before Justice Christopher Balogun. She also claimed that her husband refused to take care of her and the children, while being led in evidence by her lawyer, Mrs S.I. Amedu. Recall that CASEFILE reported that the actor is seeking a dissolution of his six-year-old marriage to Ijeoma and is seeking custody of their children, a son and a step daughter, in a suit marked…
An Assistant Inspector General of Police, AIG Usman Alhassan Belel, of the Force Criminal Investigation Department Annex, Alagbon, Lagos has urged senior police officers of the Lagos Police Command to adopt community based policing strategy in addressing crimes and criminality. He said conformity to this universal best practices is the best policing strategy any police officer can provide in the communities they are deployed to police. He asked them to actively partner with the communities or the society that they police. He urged the senior officers to adopt the approach by partnering with communities, insisting that by doing so, they…
By Dennis Isong The mode of payment is monthly, so anyone can decide which of the months he/she will be available without the fear of tying down money (rent fee) unnecessarily. Office property investment is not just an investment you can barge into without putting some factors into consideration. Things have been changing rapidly which has created a different dynamic of how things work. Few years back, it was easy to get away with mistakes made from investment. But, in this new age, mistakes made in investment would hit and eat you hard for a very long time. Office properties…
Millions of women in the US will lose the legal right to abortion, after the Supreme Court overturned a 50-year-old ruling that legalised it nationwide. The court struck down the landmark Roe v Wade decision, weeks after an unprecedented leaked document suggested it favoured doing so. The judgement will transform abortion rights in America, with individual states now able to ban the procedure. Half of US states are expected to introduce new restrictions or bans. Thirteen have already passed so-called trigger laws that will automatically outlaw abortion following the Supreme Court’s ruling. A number of others are likely to pass…
Barely a year ago that former Managing Director of the defunct Bank PHB Plc, (now Keystone Bank) Francis Atuche, was convicted over N25.7biillion fraud, yet again, the Court of Appeal in Lagos has affirmed his conviction on Thursday. The court also affirmed the conviction of Atuche’s accomplice and co-convict, Ugo Anyanwu, who was the bank’s former Chief Financial Officer. The three-man panel of the court comprising Justices Sadiq Umar, Adebukola Banjoko and Kayode Bada, upheld in part, the June 16, 2021 judgement of a Lagos State High Court judge, Justice Lateefa Okunnu. The justices resolved all the issues in the…