IN September 2007, Lagos State judiciary delivered a remarkable judgment when it sentenced seven people accused of driving against the traffic, on the Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway to 20 days imprisonment. The prosecution and sentence were finished within a month of the offence.
They accused the management of PPMC, who owns the black oil of contracting the services of Clean Nigeria Associate (CAN) who they alleged are hurriedly recovering the spilled oil without first containing the spread and ascertaining the extent of impact and finally undertaking a comprehensive JIV as demanded by the law governing oil spill management in the country.
Governor Peter Obi of Anambra State, Speaker of the State House of Assembly, Anayo Nnebe and other officials of the State government are expected to grace a summit on armed robbery and kidnaping slated for the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs (NIIA) tomorrow.
His second qualification is that he served as a commissioner under late Chief Bola Ige in the old Oyo State. But being a graduate was not a prerequisite for that appointment. In fact one of his colleagues in the cabinet, Busari Adelakun “Eruobodo†might not even have completed his primary school education.
I will be serving the readers with answers to technical questions and often scratching deep into the spirit behind the laws that confuse when applied in the matches readers observe. We are also going to use this forum to often x-ray developments in football refereeing from international bodies such as FIFA, CAF and WAFU as well as Nigerian referees’ designations.
Spokesman of the militants, Mr. Ikenna Enekweizu, a lawyer, who gave this indication after a meeting with the Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Mike Okiro, the Minister of Interior Affairs, Maj-Gen Godwin Abbe (rtd), the Commissioner of Police in Rivers state, Mr Bala Hassan and other top security officers in Port Harcourt yesterday said his clients were willing to be part of the healing process being driven by the Federal Government.
By Ise-Oluwa Ige
ABUJA— Henceforth, serving judges indicted by the National Judicial Council (NJC) of corruption will not only be sacked from the bench but shall be handed over to either the EFCC or the ICPC for investigation and prosecution, the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Idris Legbo Kutigi, yesterday, disclosed.
By Anayo Okoli
Umuahia—THE Abia state House of Assembly yesterday completed the screening of the Commissioner nominees sent to them by Governor Theodore Orji.
By Ola Ajayi
IBADAN—THE former Chairman of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) in Oyo State, Alhaji Lateef Akinsola a.k.a Tokyo and some of his loyalists were yesterday arraigned in an Ibadan Magistrate Court on a six count charge of murder and felony.
Former Super Eagles’ Ben Akwuegbu arrived Nigeria in good time to watch Super Eagles against Tunisia on Saturday and called after the match to say the following:
By Kolade Larewaju
ABEOKUTA – THE Chairman of the Elders Council of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ogun State, Chief Sule Onabiyi yesterday lamented that some new entrants who have become puppets in the hands of some leaders were the cause of the crisis within the party in the state.
A Premier League player with Warri Wolves, Chuks Nwokocha, has called on the Nigeria Premier League to always provide adequate security at match venues to prevent the ugly situation where players and officials on away matches are intimidated and battered by home fans.
By Henry Umoru
ABUJA — MINISTER of the Federal Capital Territory Administration(FCTA), Senator Muhammad Adamu Aliero said yesterday that the administration has concluded arrangements to increase all levies and charges payable for land acquisition and processing in the nation’s capital, Abuja.
This may well be a major twist in the tale of the controversy generated by the interruption of the bidding process for the 2.3GHz spectrum. Recent claims by the Chairman of A3&O Ltd, Mr. Wale Adeyinka that his company did not write the purported petition upon which the Information and Communications Minister, Professor Dora Akunyili, based his castigation of the Nigerian Communications Commission over the bidding for the 2.3GHz national frequency spectrum may raise more questions about how government business is conducted in Nigeria.
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