Dowen College and the dawn of a tragedy
By OLU ADEBAYO I have followed the tragic incident at Dowen College with keen interest. I have also taken the time to read a number of comments on the development. There is no human being that will not react violently to the tragic passage of Sylvester Oromoni Junior. Emotions were justifiably high and nobody should be vilified for expressing such emotions. When tragic...
Ecobank to court: Restrain Otudeko’s Honeywell from dissipating assets
Ecobank Nigeria Limited has asked a Federal High Court in Lagos to restrain Honeywell Group Limited from dissipating its assets pending the hearing and determination of a winding-up proceedings. The bank said the assets included but were not limited to Honeywell Group’s shareholding in Honeywell Flour Mills Plc. Ecobank prayed the court to restrain the transfer of all shares held/belonging to...
Fuel subsidy: How Nadabo Energy duped FG of N978m – EFCC chair
Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mr. Abdulrasheed Bawa, on Monday, revealed how Abubakar Ali Peters and his company, Nadabo Energy Limited, forged documents to dupe the Federal Government of N978,401,732.09 in the fuel subsidy regime. Bawa, while concluding his examination-in-chief as the fifth prosecution witness, told Justice C.A. Balogun of the Lagos State High Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos...
Insurgency: Civilian JTFs, hunters, sanitation workers get salary bonus, gifts
Governor Babagana Zulum of Borno, on Monday, approved one-month salary bonus for thousands of volunteers fighting Boko Haram, especially the Civilian Joint Task Force (CJTF) and hunters. The governor included sanitation staff, who are involved with cleaning up communities destroyed by insurgents before reconstruction as well as cleaners working in government establishments, agencies and parastatals. Zulum announced the good news at...
1,144 ATM cards: Smugglers get 6-month jail term or N50,000 option
Justice Tanimu Shehu of Kano State High Court on Monday, December 20, convicted and sentenced three ATM card smugglers to six months imprisonment each on separate three count charges. The defendants, Abdullahi Usman, Musa Abubakar and Abdulwahid Auwalu were arrested by the operatives of the Commission between November 24 and December 1, 2021. Upon their arrest, it was discovered that Musa...
Sanwo-Olu ‘step aside’ as 17-year-old student presides over Exco meeting
Ms. Jemimah Marcus, a 17-year-old student of Angus Memorial Secondary School in Somolu on Monday presided over the affairs of Lagos State. Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu yielded the seat of authority for Marcus who stepped in as one-day Governor of Lagos State. Marcus won the 2020 edition of the Spelling Bee Competition, thereby earning the honour to become the one-day Governor. The weekly...
DSP, FCID officers in trouble for extorting N20m worth of Bitcon
A Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP), Nwawe Cordelia, and other officers serving at the Force Criminal Investigations Department (FCID), Alagbon, Lagos are in trouble over extortion of N20 million worth of Bitcoin from some citizens in Lagos State. The officers are being probed for professional misconduct, abuse of office and extortion. Morakinyo Tobiloba Peter and Yusuf Samson Dayo were extorted of...
ACF expresses frustration, anger over killings in the North
Apex northern socio-cultural group, the Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF), has expressed its frustration and anger on the spate of killings in the North. The ACF also called on President Muhammadu Buhari to show more empathy to the bereaved by visiting the affected areas. Emmanuel Yawe, National Publicity Secretary of ACF in a statement titled ‘ACF CRIES OUT AGAISNT KILLINGS IN THE...
Booster dose appears protective against Omicron – Moderna
Moderna Inc (MRNA.O) on Monday said the booster dose of its Coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccine appeared to be protective against the fast-spreading Omicron variant in laboratory testing. It added that the current version of the vaccine would continue to be Moderna’s “first line of defense against Omicron.” The vaccine maker said the decision to focus on the current vaccine, mRNA-1273, was driven...
COVID-19: S’Africa’s President Ramaphosa back at work after self-isolation
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has returned to work after finishing a week of self-isolation due to testing positive for the Coronavirus (COVID-19), his office said on Monday. Ramaphosa, who was given Johnson & Johnson’s vaccine in February, tested positive for COVID-19 on Dec. 12 and received treatment for mild symptoms. “The President has returned to duty and will chair the...
