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Court remands Chemist for allegedly performing abortion

Mar 4, 2019 topnews

A 40-year-old chemist, Folake Oluwafemi has been remanded by an Ado-Ekiti Magistrates’ Court on Monday, for allegedly performing an abortion that led to death. The defendant, whose address was not provided, was charged with manslaughter before Magistrate Omolola Akosile. The Prosecutor, Insp. Monica Ikebuilo, told the court that Oluwafemi carried out an abortion on one Miss Oluwabukola Adeosun and it caused her death. Ikebuilo said that the defendant committed the offence on February 20, at Ijero-Ekiti, Ekiti State. According to the prosecutor, the abortion resulted in complications, and Adeosun was…

Badeh’s company pleads guilty to N3.97bn fraud charges, forfeits $1m, Abuja houses to FG

Mar 4, 2019 topnews

The immediate winding up of Iyalikam Nigeria Limited belonging to former Chief of Defence Staff, late Chief Air Marshall Alex Badeh has been ordered by the Federal High Court in Abuja on Monday. Having convicted the company on the amended 10 counts of money laundering, Justice Okon Abang also ordered the forfeiture of the sum of $1m and houses in choice areas of Abuja linked to the company. This followed the Monday’s turn around by the company to plead guilty to the 10 counts of money laundering charges which it…

‘One-chance’ robbery gang arrested at Ogun motor park

Mar 4, 2019 topnews

Men of the Ogun State Police Command have arrested a three-man ‘one-chance’ robbery gang after being identified by one of their victims, Mrs Taye Olotu, at a motor park in the Atan-Ota area of the state. The suspects were reported to have posed as drivers and passengers in the park, when the victim, who had earlier been robbed in February by the gang saw them and reported to the police, who subsequently arrested the suspects. The Police Public Relations Officer in the state, Abimbola Oyeyemi, confirmed the arrest in a…

Johnny Depp Sues Ex-wife For $50 Million

Mar 3, 2019 topnews

American actor, Johnny Depp, is suing his former wife Amber Heard for $50 million (₦18 billion) in a defamation lawsuit. Depp, 55, has filed the lawsuit in relation to an op-ed piece Amber, 32, wrote for the Washington Post in December 2018, in which she spoke about her experiences of being a victim of domestic abuse. While Depp wasn’t specifically mentioned in the piece, the actor’s legal team has claimed that the article’s implication was that Depp ‘perpetrated domestic violence against her’ – allegations he ‘categorically’ denies. In court documents…

Atiku’s son-in-law arrested by EFCC operatives

Mar 3, 2019 topnews

Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in the February 23 presidential election, on Saturday said 24 operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission arrested his son-in-law, Alhaji Babalele Abdullahi. He said Abdullahi, who is also finance director of Atiku Group of Companies, was arrested after the EFCC officials in two vehicles, an 18-seater Toyota bus with registration Abuja CS 522 RSH and a Hilux van, had invaded the Maitama residence of his son-in-law at about 8.30am. A statement by Atiku’s media adviser, Mr Paul Ibe,…

Court Will Give Us Victory- Secondus

Mar 2, 2019 topnews

The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Mr Uche Secondus, has expressed confidence that the court would overturn the victory of President Muhsmmadu Buhari. He, therefore, warned that nobody would stop the party from contesting the outcome of the Feb. 23 Presidential Election in the court. Secondus told journalists on Friday in Abuja that the party believed that justice would be done at the court. “We will go to court. Nobody will stop us from going to court and bring out all of the facts both the international…

We’ll resist violence, voter suppression by APC -Jimi Agbaje

Mar 2, 2019 topnews

Jimi Agbaje, the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in Lagos State, has challenged the ruling All Progressives Congress to be prepared for resistance if the ruling party unleashes violence in the March 9 governorship election. Agbaje, in a series of videos posted on his verified Twitter account on Friday, decried the violence reported at several polling units across the state during the presidential and National Assembly elections last Saturday. He said he had visited some areas affected by voter suppression and violence, adding that it was understandable why…

APC suspends Amosun, Okorocha over anti-party activities

Mar 1, 2019 topnews

The governors of Ogun and Imo states, Ibikunle Amosun and Rochas Okorocha, have been suspended by the national working committee, NWC, of the All Progressives Congress, APC, over anti-party activities. APC took the decision at its National Working Committee meeting held on Friday in Abuja. The NWC of the party further recommended the expulsion of the duo from the party for brazen anti-party activities. Both governors are supporting different candidates for the governorship election in their states. Okorocha, who won a Senate seat as APC candidate, is backing his son-in-law, Uche…

Supplementary Presidential Election to be conducted March 9

Mar 1, 2019 topnews

The Independent National Electoral Commission INEC has said it would conduct fresh elections in areas where the exercise could not hold last Saturday due to violence or other infractions. The elections would now be conducted in March 9 alongside the Governorship and State Assembly Polls. Although returns have been made in the presidential election and most of the National Assembly seats, INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu had stated during the collation of presidential results that the figures from areas where elections could not be conducted were not substantial enough to…

Man sentenced to death by hanging for killing mother

Mar 1, 2019 topnews

A 20-year-old man, Agugu Adau, has been sentenced to death by hanging by a High Court sitting in Jos, for killing his mother. Justice Nafisa Musa handed the sentence after he found the defendant guilty. “Based on the evidence before this court, the prosecution has proved beyond reasonable doubt that you, Adau, mercilessly took the life of your own mother. The judgment of this court upon you is that you will be hanged by the neck until you die, may God have mercy on your soul,” Musa declared. The convict…