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On Tuesday, a Lagos state High Court at Tafawa Balewa Square ordered convicted billionaire kidnap kingpin Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike, popularly known as Evans, to refund the sum of €233,000 he coercively collected from one of his kidnap victims, Chief Donatus Dunu. Furthermore, Justice Olukayode Ogunjobi ordered the convicted kidnapper to pay N50 million in general damages to the claimant. Dunu, a pharmacist, was kidnapped on February 14, 2017, and held hostage for ransom paid by his family before escaping captivity. Dunu, who is the Chief Executive Officer of Maydon Pharmaceutical Company, later filed a civil suit, praying the court to order…

A businessman, Olasubomi Okeowo, has lamented being stranded in the United States of America after Ethiopian Airlines refused to fly him back to Nigeria because of the possibility of him needing oxygen while onboard. Okeowo’s agent purchased an economy ticket from the airline on January 6, 2023, with a return date of February 5, 2023, for N1,300,000. The businessman said the airline was to convey him from the Murtala International Airport, Ikeja, Lagos State, Nigeria, to Newark, Texas, USA, and return him to his country. Olasubomi Okeowo, a businessman, has expressed dismay at being left stranded in the US when…

According to Chronicle NG, President Muhammadu Buhari will leave Abuja on Thursday for Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to attend the 36th Ordinary Session of the African Union Assembly (AU). The theme of the AU Summit is “Accelerating the Implementation of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA).” The President will attend three High-Level Meetings on peace and security, climate change, and the political situation in a number of West African countries. The first is the Peace and Security Council (PSC) meeting of Heads of State and Government on the situation in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (AUPSC High-Level AU), which…

An Electoral Act App has been launched by the Policy and Legal Advocacy Centre (PLAC), a civil society organization, to keep Nigerians informed about the 2023 elections. Clement Nwankwo, the executive director of PLAC, made this statement on Wednesday at the unveiling and dissemination of the EU-funded PLAC Electoral Act Web and Mobile App in Abuja. The 2023 General Election, according to Nwankwo, will mark a significant turning point in the development of Nigeria’s democracy, and the provisions of the 2022 Electoral Act have made it even more crucial for voters to be familiar with the technology that will be…

According to activist-lawyer Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa, SAN, President Muhammadu Buhari is in contempt of the Supreme Court as a result of his national broadcast on the new naira notes design policy on Thursday morning. Adegboruwa said that the President engaged in “executive rascality” by attempting to change the supreme court’s ruling that all of the old notes should remain legal money. Buhari was criticized by the Senior Advocate of Nigeria for seeking to “overrule the Supreme Court of Nigeria.” Last Wednesday, the Supreme Court, in a case filed by Kaduna, Kogi and Zamfara states, barred the Federal Government, acting through the…

With only 10 days till the presidential and parliamentary elections on February 25, Nigeria’s Voters Watch (NVW), a civil society organization, has petitioned INEC to dismiss Mr. Olusegun Agbaje, the REC for Lagos State. Agbaje allegedly made “disturbing statements,” according to the organization. According to newsmen, INEC has granted NVW election-related CSO accreditation. Dr. Stella Ford, the NVW Convener, told reporters on Wednesday in Lagos that Agbaje’s urgent dismissal was required to keep him from overseeing the upcoming elections in Lagos state. According to her, the removal can be either by suspension or termination of appointment with immediate effect, to…

In a show of defiance against the ongoing shortage of naira notes, a group of angry youths in Warri, Delta State, set a branch office of Access Bank on fire on Wednesday, stressing on their level of protest. In a widely shared video, young people were seen blocking traffic and destroying priceless infrastructure at Warri’s Udu Road axis. An eyewitness who used a Twitter handle to post a video of the incident; @sabiboiharry, said: “Breaking! Massive protests are ongoing in Warri, around the Udu road axis, over the CBN’s order to stop the old Naira as legal tender. Access Bank…

At the Presidential Villa in Abuja on Wednesday morning, President Major General Muhammadu Buhari (ret.) met with All Progressives Congress presidential candidate Bola Tinubu. Senior presidential sources claim that the reason for Buhari’s 40-minute delay in getting to the Council Chambers to preside over this week’s Federal Executive Council meeting is the meeting, which took place at his official residence. Buhari came in the Council Chambers nearly an hour after the scheduled time of 10:00 am, at around 10:40. This comes four days after the APC held its campaign rally at Eagle Square, Abuja. Although the reasons for the meeting…

The upcoming national Population and Housing Census would be entirely digital, according to Alhaji Nasir Isa-Kwarra, Chairman of the National Population Commission (NPC), to improve accuracy and timeliness. The NPC chairman announced this on Tuesday in Abuja at a reform seminar hosted by the Bureau of Public Service Reforms (BPSR) on “National Development and the Imperative of 2023 Population and Housing Census.” Isa-Kwarra was represented by Mrs. Adebayo Foluke, NPC Director of Data Quality Management. He said data capture, processing and database management would be undertaken using CSPro, an open-source software developed by the US Census Bureau. ”Indeed, for Nigeria…

The February 8 order prohibiting the Federal Government and its agencies from enforcing the February 10 deadline for the use of the old 200, 500, and 1000 naira notes is still in effect, according to the Supreme Court. Following a complaint from attorney Abdulhakeem Mustapha (SAN) to the states of Kaduna, Kogi, and Zamfara that the Federal Government and its agencies had disobeyed the judgment and had purportedly ordered the rejection of the old notes, the court made the clarification on Wednesday. Mustapha said that the plaintiff submitted a notice of non-compliance with the February 8 court order and urged…