Author: Vincent Osuwo

A court in Canada has fined a Quebec man $35,000 for violating two Canadian environmental laws after a fuel spill in Dorval resulted in significant contamination of local waterways. The Court of Québec ordered the fine on February 11, 2025, after Daniel Chayer, a transport company driver, pleaded guilty to violations of both the Fisheries Act and the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999. Chronicle NG on Thursday retrieved this from a statement on the Canadian government website dated February 12, 2025. The fine will be directed to the Government of Canada’s Environmental Damages Fund, which supports projects aimed at restoring…

Three passengers, Adedigba Adewale, Ashibogu Magnus, and Iwonze Benjamin, were arrested on Wednesday at Lagos’ Murtala Muhammed International Airport for allegedly engaging in unruly behavior aboard an Air Peace flight from London to Lagos. The incident began when two passengers, despite holding economy tickets, attempted to sit in business class. Crew members’ attempts to resolve the problem quietly were futile, as the passengers forced their way into the area without permission. According to one witness, the incident worsened when the passengers threatened to cause mayhem, causing stress among the other passengers. aa They were also observed openly drinking alcohol that…

The Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Kudirat Kekere-Ekun, has described the late Justice Alagoa as a rare breed, devoid of arrogance and elitism. Speaking in Abuja at a valedictory court session held in honour of the late Justice of the Supreme Court on Wednesday, she stated that he was a courageous and dogged fighter for his beliefs. The CJN urged all humans to strive to leave behind good legacies that will make their fellow human beings remember their lives and times for good. She disclosed that although the curtain has fallen on the earthly journey of Alagoa, she, however,…

The Judiciary Staff Union of Nigeria (JUSUN) has issued a seven-day ultimatum to the Federal Government to implement the new national minimum wage and other benefits or face an indefinite strike. This ultimatum was delivered in a communiqué issued on Wednesday following an emergency meeting at the JUSUN Secretariat in Abuja. According to the communiqué, the seven-day ultimatum would begin on Thursday, February 13, 2025, and expire on February 19, 2025. JUSUN has warned that failure by the Federal Government to accept their demands within this timeframe will result in an extended strike beginning February 20, 2025. The union is…

The Abuja Electricity Distribution Company has stated that electricity consumers in the Federal Capital Territory and surrounding franchise areas will begin to get full power supply within the next 11 days. It stated that the Transmission Company of Nigeria’s continuing restoration efforts on the underground transmission cable destroyed by vandals near Abuja’s Millennium Park would be finished by February 23. In a power supply update released on its official X Twitter on Wednesday, the company stated that it had obtained this assurance from the transmission company and asked impacted residents in Abuja for their understanding. The post read, “Dear valued…

Hon. Sada Soli, a member of the House of Representatives representing the Jibia/Kaita Federal Constituency, has indicated that President Bola Tinubu’s tax reform bills were not properly drafted. Soli mentioned this in an interview with Channels Television’s Politics Today on Wednesday. The member claimed that Tinubu received inadequate advice on the tax reform measures and that because the bills were not crafted by specialists, they were poorly done. He said, “Let us be fair to Mr. President. For a president to take a decision, he has to rely on certain advice. I think the president was poorly advised. “People that…

Prosecutors have declared Ghana’s former finance minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, a fugitive due to his suspected involvement in various corruption cases while in government. Ofori-Atta had fled Ghana to avoid inquiry, and Special Prosecutor Kissi Agyabeng stated all necessary actions will be taken to bring him back. Ofori-Atta has been accused of creating financial losses for the state, including the disputed national cathedral, which remains a hole in the ground despite allegedly spending $58 million (£46.6 million) of government funds. Ofori-Atta has not addressed the charges. According to Agyabeng, the ex-minister’s lawyers said he was out of the country for medical…

The immediate past Publicity Secretary of the PDP in Benue State, Chief Bemgba Iortyom, warned former Kaduna State governor Nasir El-Rufai to stop heating the polity with his posturing as the mouthpiece of the north. The PDP chieftain stated that playing the South against the North in the name of promoting the interest of the region is an ill wind that will bring no good. El-Rufai shared an opinion by one Uche Diala, a member of the APC, who warned that if care is not taken, President Tinubu may be given the ‘Goodluck Jonathan treatment’ ahead of the next presidential…

The Arewa Consultative Forum, a pro-North social-political organization, and several notable voices from the country’s northern area have stated that President Bola Tinubu cannot be pushed to run for re-election in 2027. The ACF and other northern leaders said that no individual could claim to be the North’s mouthpiece, and hence it was incorrect for the Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Abdullahi Ganduje, to encourage the North to wait until 2031 before running for president. They spoke against the backdrop of Ganduje’s warning to northern politicians with presidential ambitions in 2027 to abandon the idea, pledging that Tinubu will…

The national chairman of the All Progressives Party, APC, Dr. Abdullahi Ganduje, has announced that there is no vacancy in Aso Rock in 2027 for any politician from the northern part of Nigeria. Ganduje made the statement on Tuesday while receiving a delegation from President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s Media Centre and Tinubu Northern Youth Forum at the party’s national secretariat in Abuja. Speaking on Tinubu’s reelection bid, he called on politicians from the northern part of Nigeria to wait until President Bola Tinubu serves two terms as president before they seek to replace him. According to Ganduje, it would be…