Author: David Great

A global business intelligence report by Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) has ranked Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial city as the world’s second least liveable urban area. EIU ranked Lagos 171 out of 172 countries in the list of most liveable cities in the world for the first quarter of 2022, according to the latest 2022 Global Liveability Index. This report makes the Nigerian best city the worst in Africa as Damascus (Syria) and Tripoli (Libya) continue to anguish at the bottom of the list along with Lagos (Nigeria) as they face social unrest, terrorism and conflict. The least liveable cities were Damascus…

Portugal captain Cristiano Ronaldo, 37, is reportedly concerned over Manchester United’s transfer business under new manager Erik ten Hag and is considering quitting Old Trafford. (Record – in Portuguese) Bayern Munich could make a move for Ronaldo if Lewandowski leaves them this summer. (AS – in Spanish) Barcelona have finally made a bid for Bayern Munich and Poland striker Robert Lewandowski, 33, which is worth up to £34m (40 million euros). (Telegraph – subscription required) Manchester United have increased their bid for 25-year-old Barcelona midfielder Frenkie de Jong from a fixed 60m euros (£51.5m) to 65m euros (£55.8m), but the…

The US Senate has passed a gun control bill – the most significant firearms legislation in nearly 30 years. Fifteen Republicans joined Democrats in the upper chamber of Congress to approve the gun control measure by 65 votes to 33. It follows mass shootings last month at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York, and a primary school in Uvalde, Texas, that left a combined 31 people dead. The gun control bill will now have to pass in the House of Representatives before President Biden can sign it into law. This could happen within days. Although significant, the proposals fall far…

The technical working group on repatriation of Nigerians displaced from the North-East on Thursday at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, submitted its report to Vice President Yemi Osinbajo. President Muhammadu Buhari, had in February, inaugurated a Presidential Committee on the Repatriation, Returns and Resettlement of Displaced Persons in the North-East chaired by the vice president. Governor Babagana Zulum of Borno, who chaired the technical working group, spoke with State House correspondents after the submission of the report to the vice president. Zulum disclosed that no fewer than 50, 000 indigenes from the North-East who were refugees in Cameroon, Chad and Niger…

A three-man panel of the Court of Appeal, Lagos Division, on Thursday upheld the conviction of a former Managing Director of the defunct Bank PHB Plc, Francis Atuche, as well as the bank’s former Chief Financial Officer, Ugo Anyanwu. Atuche and his co-convict, Anyanwu, had approached the appellate court to set aside their conviction by Justice Lateefa Okunnu of the Lagos State High Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos on June 16, 2021 over a N25.7 billion fraud. The panel, comprising Justices Sadiq Umar, Adebukola Banjoko and Kayode Bada, while resolving all the issues in the appeal in favour of the…

Justice M.T.M Aliyu of the Kaduna State High Court sitting in Kaduna, has convicted and sentenced two brothers: Saifullahi and Al’Ameen Hamisu to six months imprisonment for impersonation. In the same court, Justice Aliyu convicted and sentenced Musa Haruna to three months imprisonment for impersonation. Two other convicts: Andrew Ebuka and Mubarak Adeyemi bagged eight years imprisonment for impersonation by Justice Darius Khobo. They were all jailed on Thursday, June 23, 2022 after pleading guilty to one-count separate charge bordering on impersonation preferred against them by the Kaduna Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC. The one…

Justice D.U Okorowo of the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, has convicted and wound up Marqott Nigeria Limited, one of the 30 companies associated with the Process and Industrial Development Limited, P&ID, for money laundering. The company was convicted on Thursday, June 16, 2022 after being found guilty of four count charges bordering on money laundering preferred against it by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC. Count one of the charge read: “That you, Marqott Nigeria Limited, being a designated Non-financial Institution; and Giovanni Beccarelli, Valentina Fantoli, and Dimitri Duca, being directors of and signatories to the bank account of Marqott Nigeria Limited,…

The Lagos State Taskforce in its bid to enforce the ban on the activities on commercial motorcycles by Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu in six local government areas and nine Local Council Development Areas of the State has expanded its tentacles to motorbikes of higher capacity for various offenses. This information was disclosed by the chairman of the Taskforce, CSP Shola Jejeloye at the headquarters of the agency in Bolade Oshodi where he revealed that power bikes and dispatch bikes whose capacity are above the required standard were confiscated for either driving against traffic (one-way), conveying of passengers on dispatch bikes and…

The national chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) Abdullahi Adamu has said he is not deterred by the mass defection of leading members of the party, especially those in the National Assembly. Adamu while addressing the Senate Press Corps after a closed-door meeting with the Senate caucus on Wednesday said, defections rocking the APC were seasonal and normal, stressing that all manner of behaviour is expected at this time. “It is an unfortunate development when it happens. But this is a season for all manner of behaviour in the political space. He added that, “Nigeria is not an…

Ajax’s Brazil forward Antony, 22, is ‘determined’ to join Manchester United this summer. (Goal) Paris St-Germain are willing to sell Neymar if they receive an acceptable offer for the Brazil forward, although the 30-year-old does not want to leave the French champions. (Goal) Manchester United’s English full-back Brandon Williams, 21, could be sold for £10m. (Sun) Ajax are set to make another offer for Tottenham Hotspur’s Netherlands winger Steven Bergwijn, 24, but the Premier League club will not accept anything under £25m (Sky Sports) Southampton have attempted to deter interest from Manchester City, Manchester United, Tottenham and West Ham in…