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Employees Sue Dangote Flour Mill For 200million

May 1, 2019 topnews

A Lagos Division of the Lagos State High Court Tuesday adjourned for ruling a case of malicious prosecution and defamation brought by five employees of Dangote Flour Mills against the company and its group managing director, Thabo Mabe. The ruling will be delivered on an application filed by the defence counsel asking the court to strike out the case for lack of jurisdiction. According to A.Y. Usman, counsel to the first and second defendants, the court had no jurisdiction to hear a matter between “a master and servant.” Mr Usman…

Two-storey building collapses in Ibadan, eight injured

May 1, 2019 topnews

A two-storey building, located on Eleyele road in Jericho area of Ibadan, which was under construction, collapsed yesterday in Ibadan, injuring eight persons. The building collapsed at about 4:00p.m One of the bricklayers at the site, Mr. Kazeem Adebayo, said concrete casting on a portion of the building had started when it gave way. Adebayo said a portion of the building began to give way at about 3:30p.m. and the attention of the site engineer was drawn to the development. He alleged that the engineer ordered them to continue work…

Course mates discover remains of 18-year-old UNIPORT student who allegedly commits suicide

May 1, 2019 topnews

Olaitan Gbadamosi, an 18-year-old student of the University of Port Harcourt, UNIPORT, has been found dead in her apartment at Omuoko Community, Aluu Clan, Ikwerre Local Government Area of Rivers State. Olaitan, a 100 level student of Chemical Engineering in Uniport had celebrated her matriculation into the institution, two weeks ago. The victim, who hails from Oyo State, is said be the daughter of a notable individual in the Western part of the country. Some reports have it that Ola, as popularly called, committed suicide, following alleged depression, while some…

‘Boko Haram fighters receive over N1m daily, Nigerian soldiers get N1000’ -Sidi Ali Mohammed

May 1, 2019 topnews

Dr. Sidi Ali Mohammed, a member of the Presidential Committee on North East Initiative (PCNI), yesterday disclosed that Boko Haram fighters receive $3000 (an equivalent of N1, 080,000 daily) as allowance, while Nigerian soldiers get a paltry N1000. He spoke during the presentation of International Monetary Fund (IMF) Sub-Sahara Africa’s Regional Economic Outlook Report in Abuja. IMF’s Economist, Siddharth Kothari, stressed that conflicts cause decline in investment, trade and productivity, as well as destruction of physical and human capital. Mohammed, who is Head, Humanitarian Assistance and Rehabilitation of PCNI, stated…

N34 million spent daily on prisoners’ feeding -Prison Service

May 1, 2019 topnews

The Nigerian Prisons Service (NPS) has disclosed that the Federal Government spends N33,878,700 daily to feed prisoners nationwide. The Public Relations Officer of the Abia State Command of the service, Ikpe Linus Kalu, who made disclosure yesterday at a workshop in Umuahia, submitted that the prisoners were being fed thrice daily at N450. At the event organised for journalists by the Dr. Uju Agomuo-led Prisoners’ Rehabilitation and Welfare Action (PRAWA), the spokesman refuted the claims that prison staff were feeding on the food meant for inmates, just as he put…

Fidelity Bank to Leverage Technology, Innovation for Growth -Okonkwo

May 1, 2019 topnews

Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer, Fidelity Bank Plc, Mr. Nnamdi Okonkwo, has disclosed that the bank will deploy artificial intelligence and robotic automation as well as other innovations to enhance service delivery. The Fidelity Bank boss stated this in his statement at the bank’s 31st Annual General Meeting (AGM), held in Lagos recently. “The introduction of the artificial intelligence and robotic process automation like Chatbots in our internal processes and service delivery channels will be used to drive growth in all sectors we are currently servicing,” he stated. Okonkwo, said with…

Tricyclist, Passengers crushed on train track in Lagos

May 1, 2019 topnews

A tricyclist who veered into train tracks was yesterday crushed by an Abule Egba bound train alongside his 3 passengers. It was gathered that the train had left the station at Ike Aro and was heading to Abule Egba when the tragedy occurred as it approached Toyin, a suburb between Agbado Crossing and Iju-ishaga Station. According to eyewitness account, as the train approached, motorists and pedestrians alike stopped to give it the right of way. However, the tricyclist tried to make a last-minute dash across the tracks and was crushed…

27 Women sentenced to jail for prostitution

Apr 30, 2019 topnews

27 women were on Monday sentenced to one month imprisonment by a mobile court in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, for prostitution. The convicts, who were arrested last Wednesday and Thursday, were, however, given an option of N3,000 fine each. Their lawyer, Jennifer Ogbogu, explained that the sex workers pleaded guilty to the charges against them and were summarily convicted and sentenced. She said, “The ladies were arraigned before the mobile court for prostitution and were each sentenced to one month in jail with an option of N3,000 fine. We…

Codeine-based cough syrup manufacturers to be compensated by FG

Apr 30, 2019 topnews

Manufacturers of codeine-based cough syrup who had their products withdrawn from circulation in the wake of the 2018 BBC documentary about the nationwide abuse of the drug, are set to be compensated by the Federal Government. The Director General, National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, Prof. Moji Adeyeye, disclosed this in Lagos on Monday during an interactive session with journalists. Following the BBC documentary the Federal Government banned codeine products. Adeyeye said the agency had been directed to compile a list of manufacturing firms to be reimbursed, adding that over N1bn…

Motorists abscond as bandits raid on Kaduna – Abuja highway

Apr 30, 2019Apr 30, 2019 topnews

The Kaduna – Abuja Express was on Monday, blocked by kidnappers thereby forcing several motorists to abandon their vehicles and head for nearby bushes to avoid being abducted. The development has left many motorists and passengers unaccounted for just as their belongings were carted away by the kidnappers. An eye witness who narrowly escaped the attack by the kidnappers said the incident happened a few kilometres to Katari village in Kagarko Local Government Area of Kaduna state at about 3.30pm. Hundreds of motorists traveling from Kaduna to Abuja as well…