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7 suspected pipeline vandals have been arrested in Lagos. A teenager, Adams Samson, who was one of the seven suspected pipeline vandals, caught with 113 jerry cans of petrol has said he went into bunkering to raise N4,100 for payment of his tax clearance, which he was asked to produce by his school’s management before the new session. The 18-year-old secondary school student said without the money, he won’t be allowed to further his education. Another claimed he is a school teacher and that he was a victim of mistaken…

A police station in Nigeria gets N45,000 in three months as running cost. This was made known by the Commissioner of Police, Lagos State, Mr Fatai Owoseni on Thursdays. Owoseni said this while addressing members of the Human Rights Defenders and Advocacy Centre, a civil society organisation, who protested to his office in Ikeja. The group urged the Federal Government to probe the embezzlement of funds meant for fuelling of patrol vehicles, stationeries, uniforms and allowance for the Nigerian Police Force. The group had placards with inscriptions such as ‘No…

The management of the University of Abuja has suspended two senior staff for alleged whistle blowing. Recall that 23 SSANU members, including some present and former national officers of the union, were last week sacked by the Governing Council of the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, FUNAAB, for alleged indiscipline and whistle blowing. SSANU had in its recent National Executive Meeting, NEC, requested the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, to speedily conclude its investigations and further demanded that “the Federal Government urgently intervenes by setting up Special Visitation/Investigation Panels…

Tension arose yesterday at the Ogun State House of Assembly, as the deputy speaker of the House, Olakunle Oluomo and the Commissioner for Works and infrastructure, Lekan Adegbite engaged in shouting match at the Committee Room during a meeting with the commissioner on the situation of roads in the state. It was gathered that Adegbite and the deputy speaker, who presided over the meeting engaged in altercation, which nearly turned into fisticuffs during the meeting when Adegbite asked the deputy speaker, to apologise for keeping him waiting for hours. The…

Indeed, it was a hero’s welcome for Dr. Jonathan Goodluck as Sokoto residents who came to welcome former President Goodluck on Thursday, when he visited the Sultan of Sokoto and the family of his National Security Advisers, Dasuki Sambo over the death of late Alhaji Ibrahim Dasuki a former Sultan who died at the age of 93 on Monday in Sokoto carried placards some with the inscription ‘Come back Baba Jonathan’. Share on:

In a statement issued in Abuja on Thursday by Mr Femi Adesina, the Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, President Muhammadu Buhari has commiserated with the Government and people of Lagos State on the passing on of former Minister of National Planning, Chief Rasheed Gbadamosi. Buhari also extended his condolences to all family members, friends and professional colleagues of the late acclaimed economist, eminent industrialist, playwright and promoter of arts and culture. He urged them to be consoled by the fact that Gbadamosi’s contributions in these diverse fields of life…

A total of N300million pension benefit has been approved by the Edo State House of Assembly yesterday for residential buildings for the immediate past governor of the state, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, and his Deputy, Dr Pius Odubu. The decision was made after the House amended the Pension bill titled, A bill for a law to amend the 2007 Pension Rights of the Governor and Deputy Governor Law, was approved by the House at the committee of a whole. Other benefits to be enjoyed by the former governor include pension for…

Justice Fatu Riman, yesterday in Kano, convicted and sentenced a senior lawyer, Yakubu Mohammed Na-Allah, to four years imprisonment without option of fine for offences of money laundering to the tune of N50 million. The convict was arraigned by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on January 14, 2013 on a two-count charge of money laundering. Upon arraignment, Na-Allah pleaded not guilty and subsequently trial commenced on June 26, 2013 in which the prosecution called seven witnesses and tendered 15 exhibits. On February 1, 2013 the properties of the…