For allegedly having unlawful sexual intercourse with a girl, one Moses Joseph was docked by a Sexual Offence Court presided by Justice Oluwatoyin Taiwo on Monday. Moses at his arraignment however pleaded not guilty to a two-count charge bordering on the act of indecent treatment of a 13-year-old. According to the charge against him, the defendant on the 17th September, 2020, at about 11:00p.m at 25, Kadiri Street, Alausa, Ikeja Lagos State within the Ikeja Judicial Division indulged in the act of indecent treatment of the girl (names withheld) by putting his finger in her vagina and making her suck his…
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The Standard Organisation Of Nigeria, SON has pressed a charge against one Chizoba Emmanuel for allegedly faking engine oil of Forte Oil, Ammasco Oil. The suspect along with his accomplice were brought before before Justice Abimbola Awogboro of a Federal High court in Lagos on Thursday. According to the charge against him, marked FHC/L/153C/2021, the suspect was brought before the court on a four-count charge of producing of fake engine oil, unlawful and fraudulent possession of SON’s mark of quality, certification number and log. The charge claimed the defendant inscribed same on the adulterated and substandard Engine Oil produced. Chizoba who lives…
Members of the Plateau State House of Assembly have purportedly impeached the Speaker of the house, Rt. Hon. Ayuba Abok. Mr. Yakubu Sanda representing Pengana Constituency, from Bassa local government area has been elected as the new speaker. Eight members of the All Progressives Congress were escorted into the chambers early Thursday morning amidst tight security to carry out the impeachment process. Lawmakers elected under the Platform of the Peoples Democratic Party were prevented from gaining entry into the house complex. One member of the house, Hon. Philip Dasun who tried to oppose the impeachment process was allegedly harassed and…
Former Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Comrade Timi Frank, on Saturday, condemned the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami and his allegations of terrorist activities against Nnamdi Kanu and Sunday Adeyemo (Igboho). According to Frank in a statement in Abuja, Malami’s assertions were not only spurious, but highly selective and high-wired propaganda aimed at securing selfish political gains. He wondered why Malami as the chief law officer of the Federation choose to organise a contemptuous press conference to discuss matters that were already being heard by courts of competent jurisdiction in…
Without setting the cat among the pigeons, the shameful story of crisis rocking the Synagogue Church Of All Nations, SCOAN, cushioned by some disciples is a pathetic paradox. A painful irony, the incubus of wickedness orchestrated by ingrates, having been thoroughly well fed decided to bite the fingers that fed them. Here are predominantly people ‘of nobody’ status coming from battered and plummeted backgrounds in the dregs of life, either picked up in different locations in the world during TB Joshua’s foreign tours and evangelism or brought to the man of God by their wards upon whom they had lost…
The claims and counter claims between the Nigerian Police and social activist, Olanrewaju Suraju has assumed another dimension, this time the Inspector General of Police, IGP, has written a reply to two European Groups insisting that the report indicting Suraju is authentic. The reply from the Police also described as frivolous, claims by activist, Olarenwaju Suraju that the investigation report which accused him of cyberstalking, injurious falsehood and criminal defamation of former Attorney General of the Federation, AGF, Mohammed Adoke (SAN) was “fake.” Two European groups, Re: Common and The Corner House had on September 9, jointly petitioned the Inspector General of Police…
At the continuation of trial against Nollywood actor, Olanrewaju Omiyinka alias Baba Ijesha on the alledged defilement of the 14-year-old teenager, a Special Offences Court, was briefed by an expert in that field, Dr. Aniekan Makajuola. Dr. Makanjuola is the Clinical Director, Women At Risk International Foundation, WARIF. The result of the test according to her showed healed blunt laceration in her virgina. Dr. Aniekan Makanjuola stated this while under cross examination by the defence led by Dada Awosika, SAN. According to the witness, she told the court sitting in Ikeja on Thursday that further examination of the survivor also showed…
The Inspector General of Police, IGP Usman Alkali Baba has ordered the Commissioner of Police, Kogi State Command to immediately carry out discrete investigations into the trending video showing a Police officer harassing motorists along Kogi Expressway. In the video, a commentary there claimed that the Policemen on the check point stopped and forced a young unidentified passengers to withdraw money form his bank account through the ATM. The unidentified voice further alleged that the Policemen instructed the victim to ask his relatives for money which they transfered to him. Furthermore those who challenged them were seeing being brutalised by…
Kogi State Government on Friday said the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission must apologise for “embarrassing” the state by dragging it to court over a N20 billion bail-out fund. Earlier today, the commission had told the a Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi that it was no longer interested in pursuing the case after the state government had given its commitment to return the money to the Central Bank of Nigeria. Demand for apology according to the Commissioner for Information, Hon. Kingsley Fanwo, was made at the presentation of awards to senior journalists that participated in the GYB Essay Competition…
A Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos, granted the application filed by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, seeking to discontinue the matter in Suit No. FHC/L/ CS, 1086/2021 involving the N20bn Kogi State Salary bail-out loan. Justice Chukwujekwu Aneke rule on the matter on Friday, October 15, 2021. The application, according to the EFCC counsel, Kemi Pinheiro, SAN, is sequel to the decision of the management of Sterling Bank Plc to return the total sum of N19, 333,333,333.36 standing in the credit of the frozen account back to the Central Bank of Nigeria. Justice Tijani Garba Ringim,…