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At last, DSS releases Sowore from detention

Dec 6, 2019 topnews

Less than 24-hour after an ultimatum issued by an Abuja based Federal High Court to release the convener of #RevolutionNow Movement, Omoyele Sowore, the Department of State Services (DSS) has complied with the order. The court also awarded N100,000 against the prosecution for failing to comply with court orders requesting the release of Sowore and for not serving the defense counsel with necessary documents early enough. The penalty, Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu said, must be paid to the defendants before the commencement of trial. The judge consequently adjourned hearing till Friday.…

Nigerian family denied refugee status in Canada faces deportation

Dec 6, 2019 topnews

A Nigerian, Afeez Bakare and his immediate family are facing the battles of their lives, as the Canadian government has ordered their deportation back to Nigeria from Canada where they had been residing since 2017. Bakare claimed they fled Nigeria out of fear that their daughter would be subjected to female genital mutilation. The Nigerian family living in Windsor said they fear for their lives as a result of media attention they have received after a deportation order previously issued by the Canadian government. Afeez, his wife Rasheedat Bakare, their…

SERAP: Court orders Saraki, Amaechi other ex-Governors to return pensions

Dec 6, 2019 topnews

A Federal High Court in Ikoyi, Lagos State has ordered the recovery of pensions collected by former governors serving as ministers and members of the National Assembly. In a case instituted by the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), the court ordered the Federal Government to recover the earlier paid pensions to these former political office holders. It also directed the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr Abubakar Malami (SAN) to challenge the legality of states’ pension laws which allow former governors and other past public…

N7.65billion fraud: Orji Kalu sentenced to 12years in prison

Dec 6, 2019 topnews

A Lagos Division of the Federal High Court, on Thursday, December 5, 2019 sentenced a serving senator and ex-governor of Abia State, Orji Kalu, to 12 years in prison for N7.65 billion fraud. Justice Mohammed Idris who delivered the sentence had earlier declared him guilty of the charge in the case that had been on for 12 years. Kalu was tried alongside his company, Slok Nigeria Limited, and Udeh Udeogu, who was Director of Finance and Accounts at the Abia State Government House during Mr Kalu’s tenure as governor. In…

Sorrow, tears as lady stabbed by armed robbers dies after 3days

Dec 6, 2019 topnews

It was a devastating news for the family Moradeun Balogun, a 28-year-old lady who was stabbed on Monday by armed robbers and allegedly denied treatment by a Lagos hospital. She died on Thursday. Moradeun was stabbed in the neck by the robbers at Gbagada area of Lagos while returning from work. There were stories that the victim was rushed to R-Jolad Hospital, where she was allegedly not attended to because a police report was not presented by the good Samaritans, who came to her rescue. The hospital refuted the claim…

Canoe capsizes in Kebbi State, kills six teenage girls

Dec 3, 2019 topnews

A canoe mishap in Suru Local Government Area of Kebbi State has claimed the lives of six teenage girls, after it capsized while ferrying the victims across Tindifai River on Monday. The canoe it was learnt, left Tindifai village conveying nine girls to a Fadama area where they were going to harvest rice but it capsized along the way. The village is close to Bendu in Tundifai; they were going to harvest rice in the Fadama area when the incident occurred and resulted to the death of six females. The…

Court urged to stay execution of N30million judgement

Nov 13, 2019 topnews

A limited liability company, HEPA Global Energy limited has filed an application before a Federal high court sitting in Lagos south West Nigeria, seeking the order of the court to set aside default judgement of N30,511,278.20 alleged to have been obtained by an indigenous insurance company Great Nigeria Insurance Plc against the company. In an affidavit sworn to by a legal practitioner, Mr Omoke Kelvin and filed before the court by a Lagos lawyer,Chief Abdullai Tony Dania,the plaintiff company Great Nigeria insurance Plc averred that the defendant was not served…

Oyo gov poll: Confusion over Appeal court judgment

Nov 12, 2019 topnews

Following the Court of Appeal judgment on Oyo governorship poll, there was confusion on Monday as both the ruling Peoples Democratic Party and the opposition All Progressives Congress claimed victory after the justices ruled that the appeal by the candidate of the APC, Mr Bayo Adelabu, “subsists.” The court also set aside the judgment delivered by the Election Petitions’ Tribunal that upheld the election of Makinde as declared by the Independent National Electoral Commission. It ordered that the status quo before the tribunal’s judgment should remain, saying that it would…

Police arrest Domestic workers over missing N243m jewellery

Nov 11, 2019 topnews

Two domestic workers, Alex Obinyan and Ayuba Samson, have been arrested by operatives of the Rapid Response Squad of the Lagos State Police Command for allegedly stealing jewellery worth N243m in the Lekki area of the state. It was gathered that Obinyan, a cleaner, and Samson, a car washer, allegedly stole a Cuban diamond neck chain as well as Frank Muller and Rolex wristwatches worth N243m belonging to their boss, who is a celebrity, and fled to Borno State. It was learnt that the duo were arrested after selling the…

Ganduje’s aide to Emir Sanusi: ‘ stop opening your filthy mouth’

Nov 11, 2019 topnews

Salihu Yakasai, the Director General, Media and Communications, Kano State Government, is under fire for insulting the Emir of Kano, Muhammad Sanusi II, on Twitter. Yakasai, who tweeted through his handle, @Dawisu, on Sunday, asked the emir to “stop opening his filthy mouth” for making a comment over the abduction of some children from Kano State. There had been a heated debate in recent time regarding the abduction of some children from northern Nigeria to the South-East where they were given Igbo names and converted to Christianity. Reacting to the incident, Sanusi…