Court orders Osun commissioner to pay N5.5m to landlord

Court orders Osun commissioner to pay N5.5m to landlord

Justice Oludotun Adefope-Okojie of an Ikeja High Court has ordered the Osun State Commissioner for Youths, Sports and Special Needs, Mr. Stephen Kola-Balogun to pay the sum of N5.5 million to his landlord in Lagos, being unpaid arrears of a rented apartment between August 1, 2009 and April 2012.
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Nigeria’s expanding war zones

Nigeria’s expanding war zones

NIGERIAN governments are known by the many wars they fight. Each Nigerian government is a kind of war council that chooses its own kind of war.

I’m bound to deliver —Amaechi

I’m bound to deliver —Amaechi

Rivers State governor and Chairman of Nigeria Governors’ Forum, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi, has said that it was his constitutional obligation to the people of the state to deliver on infrastructure and spend public funds judiciously

Reps committee cautions EFCC against politically-induced cases

Reps committee cautions EFCC against politically-induced cases

ABUJA — The House of Representatives Committee on Drugs, Narcotics and Financial Crimes, yesterday, warned the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, against allowing itself to be used by the government against perceived political enemies.

NSE to cut transaction costs by N1bn

NSE to cut transaction costs by N1bn

The Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) has concluded arrangement to reduce the cost of its Trade Alert service by about N 1.24 billion from March 2014 via the scrapping of the current charge of 0.06% of every trade on the exchange and an introduction of an enhanced notification system, X-Alert which will be charged at a flat fee of N4 per transaction.

Vigilante Group petitions Lagos Speaker over case of impersonation

Vigilante Group petitions Lagos Speaker over case of impersonation

Vigilante Group of Nigeria VGN, has petitioned the Speaker Lagos State House of Assembly, Honourable Adeyemi Ikuforiji, over the need to revisit the case of impersonation by one Mr. Olawale Jahum, who has allegedly been falsely parading himself as the Lagos State Commander of the Vigilante group

Court orders release of okada union officials

Court orders release of okada union officials

A Delta State High Court sitting in Otor-Udu, has ordered the state police command to release three members of Delta State Commercial Motor Cycle and Tricycle Union of Nigeria, DSCMTUN, detained over their alleged role in a recent lynching of a tricycle driver in Effurun.

Eagles play Mexico with controversial jersey

Eagles play Mexico with controversial jersey

African champions, the Super Eagles will be filing out tonight in their new but controversial jerseys against their Mexican counterparts in an international friendly match in Atlanta, USA.

Present childhood cancer cases early, experts urge

Present childhood cancer cases early, experts urge

Experts in paediatric oncology at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, LUTH, have blamed high number of cancer deaths, particularly in children in Nigeria on late presentation of cases in various hospitals for treatment

Forte Oil Plc 2013 results

Forte Oil Plc 2013 results

Forte Oil Plc has set itself new standards by being the first company to declare its 2013 results to the Nigerian Stock Exchange.

FG records N601bn 4th quarter deficit in 2013

FG records N601bn 4th quarter deficit in 2013

The federal government recorded a budget deficit of N601.56 billion in the last quarter of last year, according to the fourth quarter report of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN.

Ogun PDP forecloses merger with Labour Party

Ogun PDP forecloses merger with Labour Party

Chairman of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, in Ogun State, Chief Adebayo Dayo, has ruled out any merger plan with the Labour Party, LP, in the state for the purpose of 2015 polls.

Boko Haram: Product of corruption —Bishop

Boko Haram: Product of corruption —Bishop

The Catholic Bishop of Maiduguri Diocese, Most Reverend Oliver Doeme, yesterday, blamed the Boko Haram crisis ravaging the North Eastern part of the country, especially Borno, Yobe and Adamawa states on the high level of corruption in the country.

Senate summons Sports Minister over budget

Senate summons Sports Minister over budget

THE Senate Committee on Sports, Tuesday summoned the Minister of Sports, Bolaji Abdulahi to appear before the committee by 12 noon, Tuesday next week for absenting himself from the budget defence of his ministry without any formal communication to the committee.