The Rapid Response Squad (RRS), Lagos State Command, has detained 11 cult members following a violent brawl in a hotel in the state’s Agege area. This is reported in a statement made on Wednesday on its official Twitter feed. The RRS said the suspects were caught on Wednesday in a hotel while fighting with dangerous Read More…
The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has dissociated itself from a social media post seeking competent applicants to fill a number of open jobs in the organisation. This was contained in a statement issued on Saturday in Lagos by the council’s head of public affairs, Mrs. Moyosola Adesina. She called the ads phoney and deceptive. Read More…
Olasupo Shasore, SAN, the former A-G of Lagos State, has once again been brought before the court by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Friday on a 14-count money laundering charge, barely 24 hours after he was arraigned before Justice Mojisola Dada at the Federal High Court, Lagos division, on a four-count charge Read More…
Ayodele Fayose’s alleged money laundering trial has been postponed by the Federal High Court in Lagos till January 31 and February 1. Due to a scheduling error, the case’s trial was originally supposed to continue on October 26. A new trial date was to be decided by the parties and set by the court. The Read More…
On Thursday, an Ikeja Special Offences Court revoked Blessing Adanu’s bail and proclaimed her wanted for allegedly scamming her client of N47 million. Adanu has been charged by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) with two charges of acquiring money by false pretence and theft. When she was arraigned on December 19, 2019, the Read More…
In a London court on Thursday, a mining and trading company named Glencore was forced to pay a total of £276.4 million ($310.6 million) in fines for seven bribery violations involving its oil activities in Africa. Judge Peter Fraser of Southwark Crown Court imposed a £182.9 million fine and authorised a £93.5 million confiscation order Read More…
Peter Williams, a 49-year-old sales representative, was taken before an Ejigbo Magistrates’ Court in Lagos on Thursday for allegedly using his employer’s N200,000 for personal use. Williams is facing trial on one count of theft; his home location was not disclosed. To the charge, he entered a not-guilty plea. The defendant committed the offence on Read More…
Olasupo Shasore, SAN, a former Lagos State attorney general and commissioner for justice, will be charged by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Friday before the Federal High Court in Abuja. Shasore will be charged with 14 counts of alleged money laundering along with a business, Middlesex Investments Ltd., before Justice Inyang Ekwo. Read More…
Warn of consequences Leaders of the Ijaw community in Lagos have requested a swift judicial decision in the matter of Sylvester Oromoni, a former student of Dowen College in Lagos. The tragic occurrence was more of a moral matter than a legal one, according to Mr. Regent Youmor, Coordinator and Ex-President, Ijaw Community in Lagos, Read More…
The police high command has intervened in the case of an alleged attack by her senior officer on a female police officer in Osun over suspected romantic advances. Mr. Faleye Olaleye, the commissioner of police in Osun, claimed that the police were aware of a popular video in which the Inspector who was assaulted described Read More…
