Chukuwuememe Onwuamadike also known as Evans has been found guilty of charge of conspiracy and kidnapping pressed against him and two other members of his gang have been convicted accordingly. They are however awaiting sentencing. The fate of Evans, and his gang were decided by Justice Hakeem Oshodi of a Lagos High Court sitting in Ikeja. The defendants who had earlier denied a two-count charge of kidnapping and conspiracy preferred against them. The Lagos State Government had re-arraigned the defendants on 19th October, 2017 arraigned. The defendants are Evans, Uche Amadi, Ogechi Uchechukwu, Okwuchukwu Nwachukwu, Chilaka Ifeanyi and Victor Aduba.…
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In a bid to prioritise health of police officers’ wives, the Wife of the Inspector General of Police and National President of the Police Officers Wives Association, POWA, Hajiya Hajara Usman Alkali Baba has flagged off a cancer screening exercise in Lagos. Speaking during the flag-off at POWA multi-purpose hall, Ikeja, Hajara Usman Alkali Baba said the outreach is quite timely when Nigerian women bear the highest cancer burden as the top cancers. According to her, breast, cervical and ovarian cancer are common with women. For this reasons, her administration has set out a well-defined three points agenda which includes…
The Nigerian Bar Association Section on Public Interest and Development Law, NBA-SPIDEL, is desirous to see Nigerians enjoy the basic socio-economic rights provided in the Nigerian Constitution as well as other enabling laws. To this end, the NBA-SPIDEL, whose vision is to make public interest and development law a fundamental aspect of national life and development, is planning a town hall meeting on 28 February, 2022 at Marriot Hotel, Ikeja GRA in Lagos. The aim of the town hall meeting, according to Dr. Monday Ubani, chairman, NBA-SPIDEL, is to arouse the consciousness of critical institutions of government, particularly the Judiciary…
Former staff of Wema Bank PLC all over the country and in diaspora will converge in Lagos on February 26 for the first reunion get-together. The reunion is aimed at fostering social interaction and welfare of the over 300 membership come Saturday. This communication was disclosed by Group Admin Team, GAT, Public Relation Officer, Eddy A. Ademosu. The event holding under the umbrella of Wema Bank Ex-Colleagues Group will hold at Academy Guest House and Events Centre, Plot 6, Lateef Jakande Road, Agidingbi, ACME Junction, Ikeja as from 11:00a.m. Chairman Titan Trust Bank, Mr. Tunde Lemo will be the Special…
Kubwa General Hospital has denied the report that a former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode was a patient in the facilities. This put to rest the argument whether or not Fani-Kayode obtained a fake or forged medical report to get bail during his trial. This is part of the proceeding when the trial resumed at an the Special Offences Court Ikeja. At the proceeding, Mr. Bassey Amah, who is the head of medical records at the Kubwa General Hospital, Abuja gave evidence before Justice Olubunmi Abike-Fadipe of the Special Offences Court Ikeja that Mr. Femi Fani-Kayode was at no time a…
Baring any last minute change of mind, Ugochukwu Onwukwe will commence a legal action against the Nigerian midstream and downstream petrol regulatory authority over the importation of toxic fuel. He indicated this intention to sue in a letter sent to the organisation through his lawyer, Olakunle Morohundiya. The claimant said his decision is based on organisation’s negligence in allowing the importation of substandard petroleum products into Nigeria between January and February 2022. Quoting relevant laws that were breached, Mister Onwukwe is claiming the sum of 50 million Naira as aggravated and exemplary damages against the defendant in favour of the…
Nnewi Community is mourning the killing of another illustrious son, Chief Gab Ofoma by unknown gunmen on Sunday. He was murdered on the Ukpor-Lilu- Orsumoghu-Azia-Mbosi Road (which connects Anambra State to Imo State), as his driver made a detour from the Onitsha-Owerri Highway en route to Port Harcourt, due to the traffic jam on the highway. This is according to a post on the Facebook page of an aide of Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu, Joe Igbokwe. It was titled “Another Big son of the soil killed by “Unknown Gunmen” in the South East!!!”ARUUUU! Nnewi Iroko Gunned Down” Quoting Agunze Azuka Onwuka,…
Trial of former acting Director-General of the Federal Institute of Industrial Research, FIIRO, Oshodi, Lagos, Chima Cartney Igwe, for alleged certificate fraud began on Monday with the evidence of an investigator with the Independent Corrupt Practices Commission, ICPC, Mrs. Vera Esidene. The first prosecution witness while testifying before a Special Offences Court in Ikeja disclosed that the ICPC received three petitions calling for the investigation of the ex-Director-General of FIIRO. While being led in evidence by a member of the ICPC prosecuting team, Mr. Kehinde Adetoye, the witness said that in 2019, three petitions were written against the embattled Igwe…
Do you know that the preliminary report by the Lagos Directorate of Public Prosecution, DPP, indicted staff of Dowen College for negligence in the death of Sylvester Oromoni Jnr.? This is the evidence of a Chief Superintendent of Police, CSP. Bamidele Olusegun. He told a Coroner magistrate presided by Mikhail Kadiri saddled with the assignment to unravel the circumstances leading to the death of late Sylvester that staff of Dowen College were indicted in the first legal advice issued by the DPP. The Police witness told the court that he received a report from the DPP dated December 30, 2021 which…
The Lagos State Commandant of Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, says its Marine unit on Sunday arrested nine Ghanians who couriered 201 bags of Cannibalis Sativa into the Nigeria. Briefing journalists on Monday at the Lagos State Command, Commandant Douglas Edenabu Okoro Eweka said the exhibit seized from the suspects is worth N200,000,000 in street value. The agency’s latest arrests and exhibits according to Commandant Eweka followed intelligence driven efforts and good synergy between the agency and the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA. Speaking about the suspects, the NSCDC boss said, “It is of great concern that citizens…