The Nigeria Customs Services (NCS) Wednesday brought seven men before the Federal High Court in Lagos for alleged illegal possession dealing, assembling, storing, smuggling and trading in pangolin skin and elephant’s ivory. The defendants, comprising three Vietnamese citizens, two Nigerians and a citizen of Cameroon and Guinea, were arraigned before Justice Yellim Bogoro. The Vietnamese Read More…
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Two men sentenced for dealing in fake dollars, CFA Franc
The Federal High Court in Lagos Wednesday, sentenced two men, Ajibade Ismail Adio and Adewumi John Olorode, to two years imprisonment for foreign currency counterfeiting. Justice Tijjani Ringim convicted the duo following their plea of guilty to a two-count amended charge of being in possession of 165 pieces of fake $100 and 139 pieces of Read More…
States in darkness as national grid collapses again
The national electricity grid suffered a system collapse on Wednesday, causing power blackout in states across the country. Reports say that the system failure, which is the sixth in the last 7 months, dipped the entire power supply nationwide to 40 mega watts. The distribution load profile obtained by the media showed that the national Read More…
Atiku not ill, says aide
The Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, is in robust good health, his Media Aide, Paul Ibe has said. Ibe in a statement on Monday, described a video in circulation regarding the ex Vice President’s health as the handiwork of mischief makers with no understanding of security protocols “Our attention has Read More…
Under pressure Portable disowns One million boys
Self-styled ‘wahala’ singer, Habeeb Okikiola, aka Portable Habeeb Okikiola aka Portable, has backtracked on his claim that he formed two criminal gangs that terrorised Lagos residents during the COVID-19 lockdown in 2020. Portable claimed he was merely”catching a cruise”, a Nigerian euphemism for making a joke. The controversial artiste had in the early hours of Read More…
100 players compete in Lagos Ludo Championship
No fewer than 100 participants are expected to compete for championship honours in the maiden edition of Nigeria 2022 Ludo Championship which kicked off in Lagos on Monday. The competition which began on July 18 will run till July 23 at the Molade Okoya-Thomas Hall, Teslim Balogun Stadium. The organiser, Mrs Olaide Graham, in her Read More…
DMO raises N123bn in July FG bond auction
The Debt Management Office (DMO), has raised N123.85 billion in its July Federal Government of Nigeria (FGN) bond auction. The DMO, which made this known in a statement on Monday, said that the three instruments auctioned were valued at N75 billion each, totalling N225 billion. It said that though the short term and medium term Read More…
GM: FBN Holdings fights back, instructs lawyers to challenge court order
First Bank Holding Plc has said it had instructed its lawyers to defend it following a court order stopping it from implementing all the decisions taken at its 10th Annual General Meeting (AGM) held on June 20, 2022 in Lagos. In a statement yesterday by the Acting Company Secretary, Adewale Arogundade, to the Nigerian Exchange Read More…
Russia considers expanding ‘gay propaganda’ law
The Russian parliament has moved to tighten already stringent restrictions on the discussion of LGBTQ rights and relationships. A draft bill calling for the broadening of a 2013 ban on the “promotion of non-traditional sexual relations” to minors, widely referred to as the “gay propaganda” bill, was announced on the website of the parliament, or Read More…
Lai Mohammed in spotlight over comment linking Peter Obi with #EndSARS
Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji. Lai Mohammed, has been criticised over a statement claiming that the October, 2020 EndSARS protest, was allegedly sponsored by the Presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Mr. Peter Obi. Some online reports, yet to be denied by the minister, alleged that he said most of the young men Read More…