Three staff members of AIICO Capital Ltd were on Thursday arraigned before an Ikeja Special Offences Court by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for allegedly defrauding their employer, an investment company, of N1.4 billion. The staff members: Harriet Onome, Olajumoke Akano and Olabode Ogunlere, were charged with four counts of conspiracy and stealing. They however denied the charges. According to the EFCC prosecutor, Miss Chinenye Okezie, the defendants had sometime in 2020 in Lagos committed the offences alongside one Olanrewaju Fabunmi who is now at large. “Onome sometime between November and December 2020 converted to her own use…
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Justice Abiola Soladoye of an Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court on Thursday, ordered two dropouts of Babcock University, accused of drugging and gang-raping a woman in a hotel in Lekki, Lagos to open their defence. The Don-Chima George, and Segun Razak, sons of Chief Lanre Razak, are charged two counts of conspiracy and rape. They are alleged to have drugged and gang-raped the complainant (name withheld) on Feb. 3, 2019, from 5 a.m. to 7 a.m. at De-Lankaster Hotels, Lekki Phase 1, Lagos, a hotel. Counsel to the defendants, Mr Adebambo Adesanya, SAN, had a filed a no-case…
A non-governmental organisation, Aid Foundation, has trained service providers in public and private sectors and professional bodies on improving access to infrastructure, services for Persons with Disabilities (PWDs) in Kaduna State. The Executive Director of the organisation, Mr Emmanuel Bonet, said at the training in Kaduna on Thursday, that the goal was to ensure inclusive service delivery for PWDs in the state. Bonet explained that the one-day training was supported by Christian Aid, with funding from the UK Foreign Commonwealth and Development Officer, under the Evidence and Collaboration for Inclusive Development project. He said that the training, tagged, “PWDs Communication…
COVID-19 infections have continued to rise globally for more than a month now, with over four million cases reported in the past week alone, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has said. The UN health agency, in its latest update on Wednesday, attributed the uptick to “substantial” caseload increases of 33 per cent in the Western Pacific and 37 per cent in the Eastern Mediterranean – where coronavirus fatalities also rose 48 and 31 per cent, respectively. The number of deaths in the four remaining WHO regions of Africa, Americas, Europe and South-East Asia was in keeping with previous weeks, apart…
Mr Ephraim Sheyin, the Head of Lagos Office, News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), has tasked journalists to work as a team to advance the profession in the country. Sheyin gave the advice on Wednesday at a send-off organised by the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), NAN Lagos chapel, for retired staff of the agency. The retirees are Mr Taju Atitebi, Deputy Editor-in-Chief and Head of Editorial; Mr Peter Ejiofor, Deputy Editor-in-Chief/Head of Sports; Mr Fela Fasoro, Assistant Editor-in-Chief and Mr Emmanuel Okara, Senior Editor. “We have a duty to work together. Journalism is about team work and that is why…
By Abujah Racheal The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on Wednesday recorded 747 fresh cases of COVID-19 infections. The NCDC, on its verified website on Thursday morning, stated that the 747 new cases were the highest in any single day in the last five months. According to the NCDC, Lagos State, the epicentre of COVID-19 in Nigeria, recorded 488 followed by Akwa Ibom 121 cases, Oyo 29, Rivers 25 and Ogun 15. The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) and Kaduna recorded 13 each; Kwara 11; Ekiti and Osun reported 10 each; Edo had six, Abia had three, Anambra recorded two and…
The Acting Chief Judge of Ekiti, Justice John Adeyeye, has commended members of Ekiti House of Assembly for the quick passage of Ekiti State Judiciary Fund Management Bill 2021. The CJ gave the commendation when the House Committee on Judiciary, led by its Chairman, Mr Tajudeen Akingbolu, (APC-Ekiti West 1) paid him a courtesy visit in his office. Adeyeye, who appreciated the committee for their visit describing it as timely, noted that the relationship between the House and judiciary should be symbiotic. Speaking earlier, Akingbolu congratulated Adeyeye on his recent appointment, and prayed for his confirmation as the substantive Chief…
World Health Organisation (WHO) Director-General, Tedros Ghebreyesus has called for a moratorium on COVID-19 vaccine boosters until “at least the end of September” to enable the world’s most vulnerable people to be inoculated. Ghebreyesus, who made the call at his weekly news conference, advised the rich countries to support the world’s vulnerable to be vaccinated. “I understand the concern of all governments to protect their people from the Delta variant, but we cannot accept countries that have already used most of the global supply of vaccines using even more of it, while the world’s most vulnerable people remain unprotected.’’ He…
The Pan-African Agency of Great Green Wall (PGGW) on Wednesday said that President Muhammadu Buhari take-over of the leadership of the Council of the PGGW would facilitate easier access to about $5 billion dollars in grants and $14 billion dollars loans to member countries. The loan and the grants would be from the International Monetary Fund and European Union Bank as they had expressed support for the GGW programme. Environment minister Dr Mohammad Abubakar said this while briefing newsmen on important recent developments in the environment sector on Wednesday, in Abuja. Abubakar said that one of the developments was Nigeria’s assumption…
UN Deputy Secretary-General, Nigeria’s Amina Mohammed says a donor conference conveyed to raise $350 million to boost support is a ‘unique opportunity’ to renew commitment to rebuild the country. Speaking on behalf of the UN chief in a video message, the deputy secretary-general said that the donation would boost support for Lebanon one year after the devastating explosion in its capital, Beirut. Mohammed told the International Conference in Support of the Lebanese People on Wednesday that the support represented a commitment for the country to prevent humanitarian catastrophe. The International Conference in Support of the Lebanese People, co-convened by France…