Justice Yellim Bogoro of the Federal High Court, sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos, on Friday, ordered the final forfeiture of $4,719,054, (Four Million, Seven Hundred and Ninety-one Thousand Dollars, Fifty-four Cents) and N830,875,611 (Eight Hundred and Thirty Million, Eight Hundred and Seventy-five Thousand, Six Hundred and Eleven Naira) as well as a number of properties linked…
The Lagos Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Friday, February arraigned 17 more Chinese and a company, Genting International Co. Ltd, before Justice Musa Kakaki and Justice Daniel Osiagor, both of the Federal High Court, sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos for fraud. They are: Mao Bu Yi, Li Xiang Long, Dai…
The Association of Idoma lawyers has condemned in the strongest terms, the purported removal of the Benue State Chief Judge, by the State House of Assembly. The association described the action of the lawmakers as a gross constitutional breach to destabilize the State Judiciary. In a statement on Thursday, by Chief Godwin Obla (SAN) Leader,…
Life for Mike Elvis Tusubira, a motorcycle taxi rider with HIV in Uganda, has been turned upside down since US President Donald Trump halted foreign aid last month. Not only does the 35-year-old fear for his own survival as he takes life-saving anti-retroviral (ARV) drugs – but he says he will have to split up…
Chief Edwin Kiagbodo Clark, former Federal Commissioner for Information and fearless South-South leader, has died at the age of 97. The elder statesman passed away on Monday night, February 17, 2025, according to a statement signed by Prof. C.C. Clark on behalf of the family. Read the statement, “The Clark-Fuludu Bekederemo family of Kiagbodo Town,…
The Minister of State for Defence, Dr. Bello Muhammed Matawalle has categorically refuted the recent comments by Dr. Babachir Lawal regarding the 2027 Presidential ambitions of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. Matawalle emphasized that President Tinubu has made commendable strides in governance and that Lawal and his associates will be surprised by the resounding support the…
The Minister of State for Defence, Dr. Bello Muhammed Matawalle, has expressed fury, calling for a resolute action by Nigeria to assert its position on the global stage in light of recent diplomatic embarrassment caused by the denial of visas to the Chief of Defence Staff, General CG Musa, and other members of the Nigerian…
The Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mr. Olayemi Cardoso, has renewed calls for deeper backward integration in the telecommunications sector, emphasising the need to localise key supply chains while expanding financial services to benefit ordinary Nigerians. Speaking in Abuja on Wednesday, during a courtesy visit to CBN headquarters by Airtel Africa’s management…
The Nigerian troops operating in the code name, Operation DELTA SAFE have arrested a suspected notorious criminal identified as Uwem Asuquo with a human skull. The troops who acted on credible intelligence nabbed Asuquo in Ini Local Government Area (LGA) of Akwa Ibom state. The troops also recovered from the suspect one locally made single…
Finding and fighting the militants who have become the beating heart of the Islamic State (IS) group in Africa can be tough work as they hide deep in the mountains of north-eastern Somalia. Trump and New US Order But in typical Donald Trump style, after the new US president ordered an airstrike on the area…
