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The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) announced 796 confirmed new coronavirus cases in the country on Friday. The 796 cases announced by the Centre for Disease Control takes the total number of confirmed COVID-19 cases to 72,140. The NCDC also announced the discharge of 248 patients from isolation centers across the country with no new death reported. The Federal Capital Territory again recorded the highest number of cases with 258 persons testing positive. Nigeria announces 675 new coronavirus cases, as second wave triggers Lagos state, the epicentre of the virus in Nigeria reported 248 new confirmed cases taking the total…

The US Supreme Court has rejected an unprecedented attempt to throw out election results in four battleground states that was backed by President Donald Trump. The lawsuit, filed this week by the state of Texas, sought to invalidate results in Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. President-elect Joe Biden won all four. The lawsuit was supported by 19 state attorneys general and 127 Republican members of Congress. But the Supreme Court ruled on Friday that Texas did not have legal standing to bring the case, in a brief order rejecting the bid. “Texas has not demonstrated a judicially cognisable interest in…

The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court has called for a formal inquiry to begin into war crimes and crimes against humanity in Nigeria. It follows a decade-long investigation into violence in the north-east involving Boko Haram militants. Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda said the vast majority of crimes were by “non-state actors”, but that the Nigerian Security Forces also needed investigating. The conflict has killed over 30,000 and displaced more than two million people. The ICC’s preliminary examination, which itself began in 2010, has now concluded that the “criteria for opening an investigation into the situation in Nigeria have been met”.…

Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State will go into self-isolation immediately, after one of his close aides tested positive for COVID-19 on 10th of December. According to a statement by the state government said, “Governor Sanwo-Olu and other members of his team will be tested by the Lagos State biobank today but will remain in isolation until the results of the tests are available. “We are seeing slightly increasing number of COVID-19 positive cases in clusters in Lagos and all Lagosians should adhere to the prescribed advisories of safe distancing, good hand and respiratory hygiene and avoidance of unnecessary gatherings.…

President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed heartfelt commiserations with the family, friends and associates of Nigeria’s out-going Ambassador to the United States, Justice Sylvanus Adiewere Nsofor over his demise. In a telephone call to Jane, the widow of the retired justice in New York on Friday, the President described Amb. Nsofor as “an outstanding judge of rare courage and truth who is not afraid to give justice to whom justice is due.” Apparently referring to the 2003 presidential election during which Justice Nsofor delivered a minority judgment as a member of the Election Appeal Panel in favour of Gen. Buhari as…

President Muhammadu Buhari is in Daura, Katsina State for a week-long private visit, the Presidency said on Friday. The aircraft carrying the President from Abuja landed at 4:45pm on Friday at the Umaru Musa Yar’Adua International Airport in Katsina where he was received by the Governor, Aminu Bello Masari, his deputy, Mannir Yakubu, senior government officials and the heads of security agencies in the state. A statement by Garba Shehu, a spokesman for the President said President Buhari was received at the helipad by the Emir, His Highness Alhaji Umar Faruk Umar, who led members of the Emirate Council and…

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Lagos Zonal Office , on Thursday, December 10, 2020, arraigned two legal practitioners, Sarah Omeigha Ajibola and John Ozovehe Demide, before Justice Chuka Obiozor of the Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos for alleged conspiracy and forgery in the conduct of the 2018 general elections of the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA. The EFCC had, on May 5, 2020, filed a 14-count charge against the duo that borders on alleged rigging of NBA elections, which produced its immediate past President, Paul Usoro. One of the counts reads: “That you, Sarah Omeigha Ajibola and…

Justice N.I. Buba of the Federal High Court, Enugu, Enugu State, on Thursday, December 10, 2020, committed Dr Isidore Ojukwu Nwankwo to prison for fraud. Nwankwo, former Rector, Enugu Polytechnic, Ndeabor, Ani-Nri, Local Government Area, was prosecuted by the Enugu Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on six-counts charges, bordering on conspiracy and obtaining money under false pretence to the tune of N1,153,700.00 (One Million, One Hundred and Fifty-three Thousand, Seven Hundred Naira), being the amount he obtained by fraud from some students of the school in contravention of Section 1(1)(a) of Advance Fee Fraud and…

Kaduna State Government has dismissed reports that 16 indigenes of Kano State where killed by gunmen on Thursday. Samuel Aruwan, Kaduna Commissioner of Ministry of Internal Security and Home Affairs said they were involved in an accident. In a terse statement, he said, “Kano indigenes perished in accident, and were not killed by bandits on the Kaduna-Abuja Road. “The story that 16 indigenes of Kano State were killed by bandits on the Kaduna-Abuja Road is incorrect and misleading. Nigerian groom arrested smuggling 14.4kg cocaine from Brazil “The fact is, they perished at the Rigachikun axis of Kaduna-Zaria Road in a…

Fresh evidence has indicted Zinox chairman, Leonard Ekeh, and some of the company’s officials involved in a N170 million fraud that was first reported by online newspaper, Premium Times. The document shows that, Mr Ekeh, was not only involved in the contract fraud but was the fifth of eight suspects listed in the report for criminal prosecution at the end of the investigation by the police. The report No. CR: 3000/X/FHQ/ABJ/SEB/Vol.41 dated April 7, 2015 was signed by Olayinka Ajeigbe, then a Chief Superintendent of Police (CSP), Team ‘A’ Leader, Special Enquiry Bureau, Force Criminal Intelligence & Investigation Department (FCIID),…