The Court of Appeal sitting in Lagos, has sentenced two officials of Keystone Bank, Anayo Nwosu and Olajide Oshodi, to five years imprisonment over N855m fraud, thereby affirming the judgement of a Lagos State High Court. The Appeal Court, in a unanimous judgment delivered by Justice Folasade Ojo, held that the separate appeals filed by Nwosu and Oshodi against their conviction by Justice Kudirat Jose lack merit. In the judgment agreed with by the panel’s two other Justices, Justice Olukayode Bada and Justice Paul Bassi, the Appeal Court resolved the three issues formulated for determination in favour of the Economic…
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A lecture of the Department of Physical and Health Education, at the University of Maiduguri (UNIMAID), Dr Kamar Abdulkadir, has been reportedly murdered in his office. Abdulkadir was brutally murdered on Sunday when the attackers sneaked into his office and attacked him with knife and hammer. Sources revealed to Zagazola Makama, a Counter-Insurgency Expert and Security Analyst in the Lake Chad, that the victim was later found dead in the pool of his own blood with several injuries inflicted on his body by his killers. “His hands were peeled off when he tried to stop the attackers from stabbing him.…
The Executive Secretary (ES) Kano State Hospitals Management Board, Dr Mansur Nagoda, has announced the sacking of three officer of Kabo General Hospital over allegation of charging patients N12,000 for X-ray as against the approved hospital price of 2,000. The announcement is contained in a statement made available to newsmen in Kano on Monday signed by the Public Relation Officer (PRO) Hospitals Management Board (HMB), Samira Suleiman. He also approved the suspension of the Accountant, Auditor and Head of Laboratory for selling the free HIV test kits given to facilities by the state government. The affected individuals have also been…
President Bola Ahmad Tinubu will depart Abuja on Today, April 2, 2024, for Dakar, Senegal, to attend the inauguration of Senegal’s President-elect, Bassirou Diomaye Faye. This is contained in a statement by Presidential spokesman, Ajuri Ngelale, on Monday saying, the President’s trip was on the invitation of the Republic of Senegal. President Tinubu, who is the Chairman of ECOWAS Authority of Heads of State and Government, will join other regional leaders to witness the inauguration at Diamniadio Exhibition Centre on Tuesday. “The President will be accompanied on the trip by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Yusuf Maitama Tuggar, and…
Rescue Movement for New Nigeria aka Rescue the Vulnerable Initiative a registered Civil Society Group in Nigeria, felicitates with Christians on the occasion of the celebration of the resurrection of Jesus Christ. The group also urges Christians to pray for Nigeria during this festivity that the power of resurrection will lift Nigeria out of the various challenges the country is presently facing. This is contained in a statement issued by the Director, Media and Publicity of the group, Rev Emmanuel Olorunmagba and made available to newsmen in Kaduna. While soliciting prayers for Nigeria the group also added that, “as we…
Senator Shehu Sani represented Kaduna Central Senatorial Zone between 2015 and 2019 under the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC). Things fell apart between the Kaduna State Governor Nasiru Elrufai who could not get the support of the Senator to pursue his bid for huge loans from foreign financiers. Shehu Sani expressed disapproval of El-Rufai’s loan request, and his position was shared by Suleiman Hunkuyi (Kaduna North) and Danjuma La’ah (Kaduna South) as the records have it. His argument then was that another loan for Kaduna State would erode the economic viability of the state, which already had huge debt burdens…
The ruling All Progressive Congress (APC) in Kaduna is in shambles over the recent crisis that showed its face between the incumbent Governor Uba Sani and the immediate past Governor Nasiru Elrufai. Sani had accused former Gov Elrufai of overwhelming the state with debt that not even the workers salary can he afford to pay due to the burden. This has led some members of the ruling party in the state to criticizing the governor and accusing him of betrayal. The State’s Women Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Maryam Suleiman, a loyalist of Nasiru Elrufai, who spoke on…
Report by the Debt Management Office (DMO) in Nigeria has shown that within the first six months after taking office, 13 new governors have collectively borrowed N226.8bn from both domestic and external financiers. The report also showed that 16 state governors increased the debt profile of their states by N509.3bn, with domestic and external debts of N243.95bn and $298.5m (N265.37bn), respectively. The external debt was calculated based on the exchange rate of N889/$ used by the DMO. The debts published on the DMO’s website were as of December 30 and June 30, 2023, for domestic and external borrowings, respectively. The…
The Nigerian Police Command in Ondo State has arrested Oluwafemi Idris, popularly known as Alfa, for unlawful possession of human parts in Akoko Area of the state. The command’s spokeswoman, SP. Funmilayo Odunlami- Omisanya, made this public in a press statement issued on Sunday in Akure. Odunlami-Omisanya said the police got information from a reliable source that cleric is in possession of human parts in his house and is intending to use them for rituals. Odunlami-Omisanya further said that, the police immediately swung into action and apprehended the suspect. “A search was conducted in his house at Akoko and the…
In response to the blame game initiated by the Kaduna State Governor Uba Sani, who claimed that he is finding it difficult to pay workers salary in the State due to the heavy debt accumulated by the immediate past state Governor Nasiru Elrufai, his son Bashir Elrufai had blasted the the Governor describing him and his aides as incompetent. Reports have said that the Kaduna State Governor Sani had on Saturday during a Town Hall Meeting in Kaduna, complained that he inherited a huge debt burden of $587m, N85bn and 115 contractual liabilities from the immediate past regime of El-Rufai.…