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An Ebute Meta Chief Magistrates’ Court in Lagos State, on Thursday, remanded a 48-year-old policeman, Apalowo Ola, who allegedly murdered a 27-year-old-man in a Lagos night club. Chief Magistrate, Mr M.A. Ajiferuke, who did not take the plea of Ola, ordered that he should be remanded at the Ikoyi Correctional Facility for 30 days, pending advice from the state director of public prosecutions. Ajiferuke adjourned the case until Jan. 27 for mention. Indian rape victim set on fire on her way to court Earlier, the Prosecutor, Insp. Raphael Donney, told the court that the defendant committed the offence on Nov.…

Police on Thursday said that a 23-year-old woman, who was allegedly raped was set on fire while going to court in northern India, and is currently battling for her life. The Police added that the woman in Uttar Pradesh state’s Unnao district was on her way to attend a hearing in the case she filed against two men in March. State police chief OP Singh said in the regional capital Lucknow that five men, including the alleged rapists, were arrested hours later in connection with the attack. However, senior police officer SN Sabat said that doctors treating the woman said…

A paramilitary officer, Mr. Innocent Okoro, official of the Lagos State Environmental and Special Offences (Enforcement) Unit, sustained severe injury when the taskforce team was allegedly attacked by 14 commercial motorcyclists, popularly called “Okoda”riders at under bridge, Oshodi area of the state, on Thursday, December 3, 2019.  after Chairman of the agency, Chief Superintendent of Police, CSP Olayinka Egbeyemi, who confirmed he received a distressed call that about 14 illegal commercial motorcyclists attacked the enforcement team of the agency and wounded an officer, Okoro, with operational vehicles damaged. Egbeyemi disclosed further that immediately after they attacked officials of the agency, investigation revealed that those14 assailants ran…

Justice Muhammed Idris of the Federal High Court in Ikoyi, Lagos has sentenced former governor of Abia State, Orji Uzor Kalu to jail for 12 years over a N7.65bn fraud. Kalu, who is the Senator representing Abia North in the National Assembly, was arraigned alongside his company, Slok Nigeria Limited and Udeh Udeogu, his Director of Finance and Accounts at the Abia State Government House over an amended 39-count charge for conspiring and diverting the sum of N7.65bn from the coffers of the state. The defendants pleaded not guilty to the charges brought against them by the Economic and Financial…

Nigeria’s Senate on Thursday passed a record 10.59 trillion naira ($34.72 billion) budget for 2020, paving the way for a likely return to the international debt market next year as the country struggles to shake off the impact of a recession. President Muhammadu Buhari had in October presented a N10.33 trillion budget for the 2020 fiscal year. The House of Representatives had increased the 2020 budget from N10.33 trillion to N10.59 trillion. The budget for Africa’s biggest economy passed by parliament’s upper house assumes a deficit of 1.52% of the estimated gross domestic product – representing around 2.18 trillion naira…

President Muhammadu Buhari has sent a personally signed goodwill message to Ignatius Kaigama, as he gets formally installed today as Catholic Archbishop of Abuja. The President rejoiced with the Archbishop, and wished him well in his new spiritual assignment. “I rejoice with you on your appointment as the Archbishop of Catholic Archdiocese of Abuja by the Catholic Pontiff, Pope Francis. “With your pedigree as a priest and administrator, I have no doubt that you will make an impressive success of your new office. Your background as immediate past President of Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria, former Archbishop of Jos, former…

The Federal High Court in Lagos has found a former Abia State Governor, Orji Uzor Kalu, and two others guilty of N7.65bn fraud. Kalu’s co-defendants are his firm, Slok Nigeria Limited and Udeh Udeogu, who was Director of Finance and Accounts at the Abia State Government House during Kalu’s tenure as governor. Accounts at the Abia State Government House over an amended 39-count charge for conspiring and diverting the sum of N7.65bn from the coffers of the state. Why Senate has not set up Constitutional Review Committee – Lawan The defendants pleaded not guilty to the charges brought against them…

President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan on Wednesday explained why the upper legislative chamber has yet to set up a committee on the review of the Nigerian Constitution. Lawan said the Constitutional Review Committee has not been set up because the Senate has been pre-occupied with other issues like the 2020 budget. The Senate President spoke while receiving in audience the European Union Ambassador to Nigeria and ECOWAS, Ketil Karlsen who paid him a courtesy visit. He however assured the nation that the committee will soon be put in place. “Very soon, we will constitute our Committee on Constitutional Review.…

VP inaugurates committee on Geo-Referenced Infrastructure and Demographic Data for Development, GRID3 project Vice President Yemi Osinbajo says the scope and depth of the Geo-Referenced Infrastructure and Demographic Data for Development project (GRID3) will enhance Nigeria’s aspirations for financial inclusion, agricultural development and improvement in nationwide school enrollment, amongst others. Prof. Osinbajo stated this on Wednesday at the inauguration of the National Steering and Technical Committees for GRID3 project, at the Presidential Villa. The Geo-Referenced Infrastructure and Demographic Data for Development also known as GRID3 is a project supported by development partners to generate, validate and use geo-spatial data on…

Sani Emmanuel, the former Nigerian football starlet whose recent social media plea for help to fund an operation for his career-threatening injury made headlines, has revealed a stunning plot against prominent Nigerian Pastor TB Joshua by some ‘big men of God’. In a tell-all post on Facebook, Emmanuel revealed he received a phone call from “a woman named Bisola Johnson” who spoke to him for over two hours, promising substantive financial benefits if he agreed “to testify against TB Joshua”.  “She spoke on her relationship with some big men of God,” he asserted, adding they would assist him to “raise up…