A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Tuesday, refused to grant Prof. Dibu Ojerinde, former Registrar, Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), bail on alleged fraud preferred against him by the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC). Justice Obiora Egwuatu declined the oral application for bail by counsel to the defendant, P.O Olorunishola, SAN, after the ICPC lawyer, Ebenezer Shogunle, opposed the submission. The former chief executive officer of JAMB is the sole defendant in the suit marked: CR/97/21 bordering on alleged misappropriation of about N900 million.
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The first batch contingent of Team Nigeria will on Tuesday depart Abuja for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Simeon Ebhojiaye, Director, Federation of Elites Athletes Department (FEAD), Federal Ministry of Youth and Sports Development said this in a statement on Monday in Abuja. He said the team members would depart through the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport by Ethiopian Airline. They include the Canoeing team Ayomide Bello and her coach Ebenezer Ukwunna, Esther Toko and her coach Regina Enofe of Rowing event alongside Secretary General Olubunmi Oluode He said also in the team were the Special Adviser on Sports to the Minister…
Aggrieved members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) from Iwo, OlaOluwa and Obokun local government areas of Osun, on Monday protested against the list of council caretaker nominees submitted to the the state House of Assembly. The aggrieved APC members took their protest to the state assembly complex in Osogbo. They carried placards with inscriptions such as; “Enough is Enough, O to gee”, “APC is nobody’s property”, “2022 is shaking” “Iwo are not slaves”, “Obokun people want Justice”, among others. The party members said they were not in support of the nominees for their local government areas forwarded to the Assembly…
Facebook and Reuters have expressed their readiness to launch a free online training programme for journalists, called the Reuters Digital Journalism courses. Facebook in a statement on Monday, said it would work with publishers around the world to strengthen the connection between journalists and the communities they serve. It said the programme would also partner with publishers and non-profit organisations to combat misinformation, promote news literacy and improve journalism profession. Facebook said that Reuters developed the free online course curriculum after its digital news report found out that more people were using social media to access news. It said the training…
The Governor, Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mr Godwin Emefiele, says the bank will increase its development finance interventions to further support start-ups and Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in the country. Emefiele made the pledge while delivering the 51st Convocation Lecture of the University of Lagos, Akoka, on Monday in Lagos. The lecture has “National Development and Knowledge Economy in the Digital Age: Leapfrogging SMEs in the 21st Century”, as its topic. The CBN governor said that increased access to finance for start-ups and SMEs was highly essential for the nation’s economy to grow. He advised that special consideration…
President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, says the National Assembly is working towards passing the Electoral Act Amendment Bill in the next two weeks. Lawan said this at the inauguration of Mr Abimbola Yusuf, as Chief Commissioner of the Public Complaints Commission (PCC) and 37 other Commissioners from the 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) on Monday in Abuja. He has urged Nigerians who were not comfortable with certain clauses in the ongoing amendment, to take their complaints to their representatives, for consideration before the passage of bill. “The national assembly is embarking on the amendment of the…
The Lagos House of Assembly on Monday passed an amended version of the Criminal Justice Law of the state, to bar the police from parading suspects before the media, henceforth. Section 9(a) of the new bill, passed at a sitting presided over by the Deputy Speaker, Wasiu Eshilokun-Sanni states that: “As from the commencement of this law, the police shall refrain from parading any suspect before the media.” According to the bill, before a Policeman arrests without warrant, the” person must be reasonably suspected to unlawfully be in possession of firearms or other such dangerous instruments.” Furthermore, the bill barred…
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo, has disclosed that the second Intra-African Trade Fair (IATF2021) has been rescheduled to take place in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa from November 15 to 21. He said this in a statement issued on Monday by African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank). Obasanjo, who is the Advisory Council Chairman of IATF2021, said that the decision to move the trade fair to Durban was made by the Council at its 10th meeting held virtually on May 25. The fair, organised by Afreximbank in collaboration with the African Union (AU) and the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) Secretariat, was initially…
Governor Babagana Zulum of Borno on Monday in Damasak, headquarters of Mobbar local government area directed the profiling of 3,000 families to be provided with packages of agricultural inputs. The inputs to be provided to the farmers include improved seeds, fertilizer, water pumps and chemicals, to enable them safely return to their farms, arranged to be secured by Nigerian military. The 3,000 families will benefit from Zulum’s gesture in the second phase of inputs’ distribution for rain-fed and irrigation farming. Each of the 3,000 families will be made up of at least six persons, implying at least 18,000 persons benefitting…
Governors of Southern Nigeria rose from a joint meeting on Monday, setting September 21, 2021, as deadline for the promulgation of anti-open grazing law among its member states. The closed-door meeting, which held in Lagos, also agreed that Nigeria’s next President should emerge from the southern region. Chairman of the Southern Governors Forum, Rotimi Akeredolu who addressed journalists shortly after the meeting of the governors in Alausa. Read full text of communique below: COMMUNIQUÉ ISSUED AT THE CONCLUSION OF THE MEETING OF THE GOVERNORS OF SOUTHERN NIGERIA AT THE LAGOS STATE GOVERNMENT HOUSE, IKEJA, LAGOS STATE, ON MONDAY, 5TH JULY,…