A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has ordered Shell Petroleum Company to pay the sum of N45.9 billion to Ogoni people in Rivers state. Justice Ahmed Mohammed who gave the order on Wednesday held that the money, which is a cost awarded against the company several years ago for oil spillage in Ogoniland, must be paid within 21 days. In his submission, Counsel to Shell, Aham Ejelamo informed the court that his client had agreed to make the payment. He proposed that the money be paid through the Registrar of the court in a bank about to be opened…
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By Abujah Racheal As states across the country struggle to curb the spread of COVID-19 Delta variant, the nation is now averaging more than 700 new cases, says the Nigeria Center for Disease Control (NCDC ). The NCDC, which disclosed this known via its verified website on Thursday morning, added that the country registered 790 additional infections on Wednesday, a sharp increase from the 610 cases it registered a day earlier. Owing to a sudden surge, driven by the highly transmissible Delta variant, the country’s average daily COVID-19 cases showed that Wednesday’s increase was the highest since February. The surge…
A final year student of the Department of Fisheries and Aquaculture Technology of the Federal University of Technology Akure, FUTA, Miss Augustina Oyebadejo has emerged one of the two winners of the 2021 Women in Aquaculture Global Scholarship Programme. Oyebadejo joins Marta Carvalho from Portugal as the joint winners from nearly 200 applications from over 30 countries, according to Kvarøy Arctic, the organizers of the programme, in a press release published by The Fish Site. The organizers say Oyebadejo and Carvalho will get funding for a specific project to be domiciled in their countries of origin as well as opportunity…
A Wuse Zone II Magistrates’ Court, Abuja, has fixed Aug. 31 for the arraignment of two staff members of the Oil and Gas Free Zone Authority (OGFZA) for alleged forgery and falsification of documents. Magistrate Mabel Segun-Bello fixed the date through the hearing notices issued and delivered to parties in the suit by the bailiff in accordance with Order 3, Rule 7 of the court. The two staff members, who are defendants, include Mr Wasiu Sule, the Head of Legal Services and Secretary to OGFZA’s Board and Mr Alenju Ngofa, who is the Human Resource Head of the organisation. The…
An Ikeja Magistrates’ Court in Lagos on Wednesday remanded a 43-year-old businessman, Emeka Orisakwe, who allegedly defiled his three daughters. The police charged Orisakwe, who resides at Maza Maza, Amuwo-Odofin, Lagos State, with sexual assault. Magistrate Ejiro Kubeinje, who did not take Orisakwe’s plea, ordered that he should be remanded in Kirikiri Correctional Centre. Kubeinje directed the police to send the case file to the state Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) for advice. She adjourned the case until Nov. 2 for DPP advice. The Prosecution Counsel, ASP. Bisi Ogunleye, told the court that the defendant committed the offence between May…
The UN Population Fund (UNFPA) has commenced two weeks free fistula surgery for 150 patients in Borno. The surgery is in collaboration with MultiAid and Charity Initiative, Medical Women’s Association of Nigeria and Yakubu Gowon Foundation. Obstetric fistula, also known as Vesico Vaginal Fistula (VVF) is an abnormal fistulous tract extending between the bladder and the vagina that allows the continuous involuntary discharge of urine into the vaginal vault. The condition, which could be due to prolonged labour, could however, be corrected through surgery, to give the sufferers a new lease of life. Zainab Aliyu, the Chief Nursing Officer in Charge of…
The federal government says a media report raising doubt on the propriety of using the four million doses of Moderna COVID-19 vaccines donated by the U.S. is “fake, baseless and irresponsible’’ The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed said this in an interview on Wednesday in Abuja. The minister, a member of the Presidential Steering Committee (PSC) on COVID-19 said contrary to the speculations in the report, the Moderna vaccine was safe, approved by the World Health Organisation and being administered globally. He said the suspicion that the country was being made a testing ground and Nigerians being guinea…
The Minister of Water Resources, Mr Suleiman Adamu, says that protection of water catchments in Nigeria, especially in densely populated areas is no longer an option but a requirement. Adamu stated this while delivering a keynote address at the National Validation workshop on the “Draft National Water Source Protection Policy 2020” in Abuja. He said that while Nigeria appeared to have abundant water resources, its sustainability had been threatened by some environmental factors. These, he said, included land degradation, deforestation, rapid population growth and other socio–economic development as well as climate change which, he added, had placed tremendous pressure on…
The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) says N472.07 billion was generated as Company Income Tax (CIT) in Quarter Two (Q2, 2021) as against N392.64 billion generated in Q1. The NBS said this on Wednesday in Abuja in its “Company Income Tax By Sectors Q2, 2021” data published on its website. The sum which reflected an increase of N79.43 billion over Q1 also reflected an increase of N70.04 billion over N402.03 billion that was generated in Q2, 2020. The NBS said that the figure represents 20.23 per cent increase Quarter-on-Quarter and 17.42 per cent increase Year-on-Year. “Professional services generated the highest amount…
The Police Command in Ogun on Wednesday said it arrested a suspected herdsman, identified simply as Mohammed, allegedly with AK 47 riffle. The Command’s spokjsperson, DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, confirmed in a statement in Ota, Ogun, that the suspect was arrested around Iwoye Ketu in Imeko Afon Local Government Area of the state. Oyeyemi said that the operatives of the state police command on Tuesday apprehended the suspect following intelligence information. “The suspect was arrested following information received by the Divisional Police Officer (DPO), Imeko Divisional Headquarters, that two young Fulanis were sighted at CAC Oha forest, Iwoye Ketu in Imeko…