Court grants bail to 2 Chinese accused of offering N100m bribe to EFCC officers

Court grants bail to 2 Chinese accused of offering N100m bribe to EFCC officers

Justice Muhammad Saidu Sifawa of the Sokoto State High Court has granted bail to two Chinese: Meng Wei Kun and Xui Kuoi, being prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, for offering N100 million bribe to the Sokoto Zonal Head of the EFCC, Abdulahi Lawal. The judge granted the defendants bail in the […]
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Septuagenarian collapses over police visitations to arrest Obaseki’s ex-aide

Septuagenarian collapses over police visitations to arrest Obaseki’s ex-aide

BENIN CITY – A 79 years old former Commissioner for Education in old Bendel State, Dr. Nosa Omoregie is currently in a sick state after he was said to have collapsed as a result of police incessant visits to his No 1 F.E. Aiguekhan street off Sapele Road in Benin City claiming to be looking for a former spokesman of Governor Godwin Obaseki, John Mayaki for alleged defamatory write-ups. Omoregie was Commissioner for Education during the administration of late Professor Ambrose Alli.

Unfair protests on the appointment of new judges

Unfair protests on the appointment of new judges

By Ifeanyi Opara The media space has recently been suffused with disingenuous blackmail by a coterie of lawyers over the list of recently-appointed judges by the National Judicial Council, NJC. The main grouse of these protesters is the inclusion of some children or relations of some serving or retired judges in the list of new […]

Edo 2020: APC, group differ over governorship primaries’ modalities

Edo 2020: APC, group differ over governorship primaries’ modalities

BENIN CITY – THE crisis rocking Edo state All Progressives Congress (APC) continued on Friday as a group Concerned Edo Citizens Forum, (CECF) has cautioned political parties against the adoption of direct primary to select its candidate for the September governorship election citing the rampaging COVID-19 pandemic.

Most of our laws are obsolete, dead – Senate Spokesperson

Most of our laws are obsolete, dead – Senate Spokesperson

Majority of our laws are dead, said, Ajibola Basiru, spokesman of the senate. Ajibola who spoke on a live social media programme ‘Politics Everywhere With SOK’, said Nigeria needs to declare a state of emergency on its laws which are no longer useful to the people.

Ekiti Obaship tussle : Armed security men, govt officials invade palace

Ekiti Obaship tussle : Armed security men, govt officials invade palace

…as community vows to resist imposition of monarch By Rotimi Ojomoyela There was tension on Friday, in the Orin-Ekiti community in Ido/Osi local government area of Ekiti State, as armed security men allegedly aided by politicians broke into the palace and began the selection process for the installation of a new Olorin. It was gathered […]

Facebook, Amazon chiefs see wealth balloon amid COVID-19 pandemic ―Report

Facebook, Amazon chiefs see wealth balloon amid COVID-19 pandemic ―Report

The fortunes of US billionaires rose 15 percent in the two months since the coronavirus pandemic hit, a study found, with Amazon boss Jeff Bezos and Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg seeing massive gains. The more than 600 billionaires in the United States became even richer as tech stocks rose during virus lockdowns, an analysis of […]

COVID-19: Accept failure – PDP mocks Buhari

COVID-19: Accept failure – PDP mocks Buhari

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has upbraided the Buhari Presidency for seeking to transfer the brunt of its failures to articulate and coordinate an effective national response on COVID-19 pandemic on state governors, describing such as unpardonable manifestation of leadership failure.

Guinean singer, Mory Kante, part of 1980s African wave, dies at 70

Guinean singer, Mory Kante, part of 1980s African wave, dies at 70

Guinean singer, Mory Kante, who helped introduce African music to a world audience in the 1980s, died on Friday in the capital Conakry, his son Balla Kante told AFP. Kante is best known for his dance song “Yeke Yeke,” which was a huge hit in Africa before becoming a No. 1 in several European countries […]

If we can’t do something very well, we don’t do it— Prof Elegido, PAU’s VC

If we can’t do something very well, we don’t do it— Prof Elegido, PAU’s VC

Professor Juan Elegido, the Vice-Chancellor of Pan-Atlantic University, PAU, Lekki, Lagos, had a chat with Vanguard’s Agbonkhese Oboh. He spoke on education in Nigeria, the impact of COVID-19 on teaching and learning, post-pandemic academia and the culture of quality at PAU. The Professor of Business Ethics has been in Nigeria since the 1970s, and is […]

Go on strike, lose your jobs – El-Rufai threatens Doctors

Go on strike, lose your jobs – El-Rufai threatens Doctors

Irked by their threat that they would go on strike pending when the state government would adjust their salaries and other requests, the Kaduna state governor, Nasir El-Rufai, Friday warned resident doctors in the state to desist from such idea, noting that anyone who goes on strike would lose his/her job.

High Chief (Dr) O.B Lulu-Briggs,OON,DCF,DSSRS, at 90 and the Engravement of a Mission of Humanism and Idealism

High Chief (Dr) O.B Lulu-Briggs,OON,DCF,DSSRS, at 90 and the Engravement of a Mission of Humanism and Idealism

By: Godknows Boladei Igali If not for man’s ineluctable duel with mortality, the Old GRA, Port-Harcourt residence of Opu Alabo (High Chief) Olu Benson Lulu-Brigg simply known as “OB” by peers or “Opuda” (patriarch) by family and younger associates would have been the epicenter of diverse religious, cultural, political, social and familial happenings, during this […]