Court grants N5m bail to accused charged with raping minor

Court grants N5m bail to accused charged with raping minor

Magistrate W. B. Balogun sitting at an Igbosere Magistrates’ Court in Lagos on Wednesday granted a N5 million bail to 32- year-old Abeng Oji charged with defiling a six-year-old minor. Balogun also ordered the accused horticulturist to produce two sureties who must own properties supported with genuine Certificates of occupancy (C of O).
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$2b Malabu scam: Stop maligning me, go and clear your name, Atiku tells Adoke

$2b Malabu scam: Stop maligning me, go and clear your name, Atiku tells Adoke

BARELY 24 four hours after writing a comprehensive letter to Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, exonerating himself of any infraction in the controversial Malabu Oil scam, the immediate past Attorney General , Mohammed Adoke, has been asked to face his problems and stop dragging others in the mud.

$24bn oil swap/OPA deals:  They lied against me—Diezani

$24bn oil swap/OPA deals: They lied against me—Diezani

Former Minister for Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke, has described the narratives of her former group managing directors, GMDs, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, with regard to the ongoing legislative probe of the oil swap and OPA deals as fabricated tissues of lies

Rickey Tarfa denies credited account belongs to a Judge

Rickey Tarfa denies credited account belongs to a Judge

Lagos lawyer, Mr Rickey Tarfa, SAN, who initiated a N2.5billion fundamental rights suit against the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, in which he is challenging his arrest and detention, as well the seizure of his phone and car, has told a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, that the N225,000 allegedly paid into Justice Mohammed Yunusa of a Federal High Court, Lagos, was a lie, as the said money was paid into the account of a former staff of the chambers, Mohammed Awwal Yunusa.

Four feared dead in Army, militants clash in Rivers

Four feared dead in Army, militants clash in Rivers

Four persons were feared dead, yesterday, in Bori, headquarters of Gokhana Local Government Area, Rivers State, as soldiers allegedly engaged loyalists of an ex-militant leader in a shootout.

CAN election not do-or-die affair —Dogara

CAN election not do-or-die affair —Dogara

ABUJA —Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, has said the forthcoming election into the office of National Chairman of the Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, should not be a do-or-die affair.

Buhari and the impending death of the naira

Buhari and the impending death of the naira

THE Naira, Nigeria’s national currency, has been very much in the news in the last couple of weeks. The naira is seriously ill and the prognosis from the ‘experts’, many of them full of bile and ill-will, is indeed dire. They have written the naira’s obituary and are already summoning the burial party of undertakers that would complete the final task of their death wish- ensure the untimely death of the currency.

Edo politics and the perennial pretenders

Edo politics and the perennial pretenders

THE race towards who succeeds Comrade Adams Oshiomhole as governor of Edo State on November 12, this year has already begun; while the electoral umpire, the Independent National Electoral Commission is yet to come out with its guidelines for the election, people in the state and, indeed, political watchers already know those who are in the race for the tickets of the two leading parties: the All Progressives Congress (APC), the ruling party in the state and at the federal level and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), the opposition party.

Kukah to FG: Be prepared to re-orientate soldiers for post Boko Haram era

Kukah to FG: Be prepared to re-orientate soldiers for post Boko Haram era

THE Catholic Bishop of Sokoto, Most Rev. Matthew Kukah has called on the Federal Government to be proactive and prepare for post-Boko Haram era by planning on how to re-orientate soldiers returning from the war to be fully reintegrated with the larger society and be productive.

Kogi gov poll: Tribunal hears Faleke, Wada’s petitions March 4, 8

Kogi gov poll: Tribunal hears Faleke, Wada’s petitions March 4, 8

Kogi State Governorship Election Petitions Tribunal sitting in Abuja, has fixed March 4 and 8 to commence hearing of suits lodged before it by Hon. James Faleke of the All Progressives Congress, APC, and the immediate past governor of the state, Capt. Idris Wada, rtd, of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.