NJC: Will Jonathan reinstate Salami?
The National Judicial Council, NJC’s, recommendation, yesterday, that embattled President Court of Appeal, Justice Ayo Isa Salami, be reinstated is quite instructive legally and morally. Earlier, the decision on whether or not to reinstate him had divided the nation’s highest judicial advisory body.
Junior athletes ruffle feathers at Pastor Olukoya’s meet
Starting today at the Yaba College of Technology, Nigerian athletes will jostle to put their names on the list of juniors that will participate at the IAAF World Championships July 10-15 in Barcelona, Spain.
3 NGOs launch appeal fund for burnt housewife
Three Non-Governmental Organisations, Project Alert on Violence against Women, Centre for Organizational Development, COD, Nigeria, and Zahara Women Foundation, have launched an appeal fund to save the life of a housewife, Mrs Mercy Nnadi, who suffered third degree burns when her husband, Henry Nnadi burnt her with hot iron for allegedly sleeping with his 65-year- old father.
Ekiti agency threatens banks over waste disposal
The authorities of Ekiti State Waste Management Agency,EKWMA, has vowed to seal off any defaulting bank operating in the state that has failed to pay the N5,000 monthly waste disposal fee.
N25m fraud: Court remands 2 bank managers, 5 others in prison
ABUJA – The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, yesterday, docked two bank managers and five others before an Abuja High Court on a 3-count criminal charge bordering on conspiracy, fraud, forgery and obtaining under false pretence.
Vandals destroy PHCN’s N5m equipment in Enugu
FOUR local government areas in Enugu State have been cut off from the national grid, following vandalisation of the second power line installation of the Power Holding Company of Nigeria, PHCN, in Udi local government area.
ONDO ACN GUBER: I count on experience – Abrahams
Chief Segun Abrahams, an engineer and business mogul is one of the aspirants on the platform of the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN in the forthcoming gubernatorial election in Ondo State. Abrahams who had in the past helped in enthroning the past civilian governors of the state in this interview, explains why he is entering the fray himself this time. He also explains the issues that would define the contest and explores his chances ahead of the party primaries. Excerpts:
Union Bank drags aggrieved retirees to court over-gratuity
Union Bank of Nigeria Plc has dragged aggrieved former staff who retired from the bank between 2006 and 2008 before a National Industrial Court in Lagos, seeking an interim injunction to stop them from carrying out any activity capable of paralyzing its banking activities.
Ondo ACN aspirants in battle of wits over guber ticket
ATTEMPT by two Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, governorship aspirants in Ondo State to outwit one another ahead of the party’s primaries is tearing the party apart in the state.
Hearing on Gbenga Daniel’s N1bn suit for May 31
An Ogun State High Court, Shagamu, has adjourned till May 31, further hearing in the N1 billion libel suit by the former governor of the state, Otunba Gbenga Daniel against two of his former political associates.
NYSC DG appeals to Imo govt
Director General, National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, Brigadier-General Nnamdi Okore-Afia, yesterday appealed to Imo State government to assist in upgrading facilities in the establishment’s secretariat in Owerri.
