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A claim filed by some disgruntled shareholders against Seplat Energy, its CEO, Mr. Roger Brown, and the Chairman, Board of Directors, Mr. Basil Omiyi, was dismissed today by Justice Chukwuejekwu Aneke of a Lagos Federal High Court over alleged racism. After the stakeholders’ lawyer, Mr. Ayodele Arotiowa told the tribunal of his client’s decision to drop the claim, the judge dismissed it. The petitioners in the FHC/L/402/2023 complaint were Moses Igbrude, Sarat Kudaisi, Kenneth Nnabike, Ajani Abidoye, and Robert Ibekwe, with Seplat Energy Plc, Mr. Brown, and Omiyi identified as first to third Defendants. The petitioners were asking the court…

Excessive and uncontrolled usage of social media by teenagers might lead to mental health difficulties. Teenagers made the remarks on Wednesday in Abuja at a symposium on Mental Health Awareness for Teenagers organized by the education nonprofit Inspire Minds. Addiction to social media, according to teenagers, might result in no or less time for them to study or do other things that are valuable to them, or it can lead them to pornographic websites. Participants from several secondary schools in Abuja also stated that depression may emerge from viewing things on social media that they could not achieve. They added…

Gunmen have once again invaded the FCT, and abducted 15 individuals on Sunday night at the 1,000 housing development near the Pegi village in Kuje, on the outskirts of Abuja. The gunmen, who struck about 11:30 p.m., fired intermittently into the air and kidnapped numerous persons who were on their way back from the city at the time. Mukhtar Galadima, the Director of the FCT Department of Development Control, apparently stated that one of his employees was a victim. Reacting to the incident, FCT Police Command spokesperson, SP Josephine Adeh, said: “After an extensive investigation, including intelligence-led information gathering, the…

The FCT Administration’s bulldozers took down unlawful constructions in Gishiri village, which is located around the high-brow Maitama and Katampe districts of the Federal Capital Territory, on Wednesday afternoon. The landlords and inhabitants of the demolished buildings, who had not anticipated the FCTA’s coming in their wildest dreams, were taken aback as the bulldozers rumbled in and proceeded to tear down their constructions. A new landlord, who possessed a block of five units of one-bedroom apartments that rented for N350,000 per month, collapsed from shock and was required to be revived by his new tenants. Most of the victims, in…

Ms. Olufunmilayo Brioluwa, a Lagos resident has been remanded in Kirikiri for assaulting a police officer. Benjamin Hundeyin, Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer revealed this on Tuesday. He said Ms. Brioluwa assaulted the officer during a random stop and search carried out by men of the Nigerian Police force in the Oyingbo area of Lagos State. Britain to build prison in Kirikiri, transfer prisoners there It is reported she squeezed the uniform of the officer, “shoving him with all sense of impunity”, the Officer said. Brioluwa who was arraigned before a magistrate court sitting in Eti-Osa Local Government Area…

The Inspector General of Police (IGP), Usman Baba has directed the immediate investigation of the killing of four US embassy staff in Anambra state. Chronicle NG reported that a convoy of the US embassy was attacked in Ogbaru LGA in Anambra State on Tuesday. Four staff of the US embassy was killed in the attack. In a statement on Wednesday, the police chief condemned the killing and ordered an immediate investigation. While expressing shock at the dastard attack, the IGP termed it as a clear indication of the perpetrator’s inhumanity to man, evil intentions, and wickedness particularly to their kinsmen…

Peter Obi, the presidential candidate under the platform of the Labour Party in the recently concluded presidential election has once again affirmed his desire to see Nigeria succeed. https://youtube.com/shorts/sttfDnNTcWc?feature=share This he expressed while having a dialogue with prominent cleric, Pastor Tobi Adegboyega at Dele Momodu’s birthday party held in London. In a short video clip making the rounds on social media, Obi was heard telling the cleric how desperate he is to see the country progress. In his words, “I’m desperate to see Nigeria work and I don’t hide it any day, anytime. I even confronted APC, if you want…

Nigeria’s president-elect, Bola Tinubu has detailed how he was granted asylum by the United States government when he was in exile from military rule. Tinubu in a telephone conversation with the US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken noted that this was part of his efforts towards ensuring democracy in Nigeria. Senator Tinubu, who stated his commitment to unite and strengthen Nigeria’s democracy, said his relentless struggle for democracy and his fight against the late General Sani Abacha’s military junta which ousted the then Interim administration of Chief Ernest Shonekan in the November 17, 1993 bloodless coup d’etat, forced him to flee…

The Labour Party acting chairman, Lamidi Apapa, and the Director General of Peter Obi’s presidential campaign council, Akin Osuntokun, clashed at the Appeal Court on Wednesday. Apapa and Osuntokun were seen in viral videos arguing over a seat at the Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPT) sitting in Abuja. The Labour Party has been immersed in a leadership tussle, with Apapa getting a court ruling last week as acting chairman pending the determination of the party’s leadership lawsuit by a federal high court. Immediately after the ruling, Apapa directed the party’s lawyers at the Election Tribunal to report to him. Apapa…

Many Nigerians are expected to be in imminent danger as a result of the ongoing usage of cooking gas cylinders that have passed their expiration dates. Some people prefer to use reconditioned old gas cylinders instead of purchasing new ones in order to save money. In addition to the rising worries, some dealers are flooding the market with inferior gas cylinders, according to a warning issued by the National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers’ Liquefied Petroleum Gas Retailers Branch. These practices are thought to put naïve consumers at risk because they are ignorant of the hazards hidden within…