Author: Chronicle Editor

Zainab Ibrahim, a relationship manager with First Bank, has informed Justice John Tsoho, of an Abuja Federal High Court, how Raymond Dokpesi, the chairman of DAAR Communications and Investment Ltd received N2.1 billion from Office of the National Security Adviser (ONSA). The bank official at the resumption of trial, while being led in evidence by Leke Atolagbe, prosecuting counsel informed the court that, as the relationship manager to the Daar Communications and Investment Ltd account with the bank, she was invited by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), for details about the account. According to her, the EFCC had…

A 38-year-old petty trader, Mrs Lovina Odo, has committed suicide by hanging herself with rope tied to a ceiling fan at No. 1, Ukpaka lane, Umusiome village, Nkpor-agu near Onitsha in Anambra. The incident occurred on March 28 at about 5 p.m. Mr Okechukwu Odo, the husband of the deceased, said he and Lovina had been married for over eight years without a child. Odo, a car washer, said he returned home from work at about 6:30 p.m. and met sympathisers around his one-room apartment. “I left home for work that morning after taking my breakfast; she had asked that…

Real Madrid forward, Cristiano Ronaldo says he will work to live up to the honour and responsibility of having an airport on his home island of Madeira renamed after him. Following the decision to officially name the airport, after Ronaldo, it is now called the “Aeroporto Internacional da Madeira, Cristiano Ronaldo.” The decision was reached by Local Regional Government chief, Miguel Albuquerque after Ronaldo captained Portugal to the Euro 2016 success last summer. Amid criticism of the idea from both locals on the island and politicians on Portugal’s mainland, Portuguese President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa and Prime Minister Antonio Costa…

Vice President Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, will be going to Paris, France today to attend the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, OECD’s Anti-Corruption & Integrity Forum. The forum opens on Friday 30 March and ends on 31 March. Participants will discuss how “corruption and abuse of public office are a blight on democracies and a drain on public finances,” making public trust in government flag. According to Laolu Akande, the Senior special assistant, media to the vice president, the OECD forum brings together global leaders, Government ministers, business leaders and civil society representatives. They will discuss issues “including the…

Madeira in Portugal renamed its airport in honour of Real Madrid star, Cristiano Ronaldo on Wednesday. The Atlantic island is where Ronaldo, the four-time world player, grew up, and the airport in its capital Funchal will now be known as “Aeroporto Cristiano Ronaldo”. The ceremony followed Portugal playing their first match on the island for 16 years, the hosts losing 3-2 to Sweden despite an early Ronaldo goal in the friendly on Tuesday. Ronaldo, 32, was accompanied to the airport renaming by his girlfriend Georgina Rodriguez and mother Maria, and heads were turned when a statue with a debatable likeness…

Two senior staff of the University of Abuja who recently dragged the management of the university to the anti-graft agencies have been sacked by the Governing Council of the university for alleged insubordination after being placed on suspension for eight months without salary. But the disengagement of the two staff for allegedly exposing corruption in the institution has drawn the ire of the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities, SSANU, who has called on the Federal Government to protect the whistle blowers in a bid to fight corruption in the system. Termination of the appointments of the two staff came…

Former governor Bala Ngilari of Adamawa state, convicted and released from prison under controversial circumstances is alleged to be on the run. This came as the two prison officers in Yola prison allegedly connected in the shoddy deal that masterminded the release of the former governor from jail, Deputy Controller of Prison(DCP) Ababakar Abaka and Superintendent of Prison John Bukar have been suspended and detained in prison. One report has it that, moment after the High court granted Ngilari bail on Monday, the prison officials took him to the court to signe his bail papers and was immediately taken away…

Anthony Joshua will be Britain’s highest-profile fighter when he faces Wladimir Klitschko at Wembley next month, but he was very nearly lost to a boarding school in Nigeria. The IBF heavyweight champion, whose full name is Anthony Oluwafemi Olaseni Joshua, joined his Nigerian mother Yeta in the African nation for six months at the age of 11 and attended a school he expected to remain in. After a period that he believes taught him discipline, Joshua and his family returned to the UK, and he resumed the path that led to him being discovered as a promising amateur fighter who…

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) says it introduced the new e-PIN vending registration for candidates to prevent fraud in its examination. JAMB Acting Zonal Coordinator in Nasarawa State, Moses Akobu, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Wednesday in Lafia that the e-PIN was not introduced to create hardship for candidates. He advised the candidates to remain calm as the board was doing its best to tackle hitches being experienced during the registration. “In the past, JAMB asked candidates to buy scratch cards from banks and do their registration in the cybercafé of their choice. “But the…