Month: March 2023

NFF’s Admin Head Dies At 54

ADEOLA YUSUF

The Nigeria Football Federation’s Head of Administration, Mallam Magaji Abdullahi, is dead. Abdullahi died on Thursday night after a brief illness. He was 54. The NFF confirmed his death in a statement on Friday. READ ALSO: BREAKING: Adeleke Wins Oyetola At Court Of Appeal Four Men To Die By Hanging For Robbery JAMB: 176,408 Candidates to Write Mock-UTME Buhari Removes 5% Excise Duty For Telecoms Services ‘I Was Only Joking’ — MC Oluomo Recants Threat Against Igbo Voters In Lagos The statement read, “A native of Bakori, Katsina State, Magaji…

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BREAKING: Adeleke Wins Oyetola At Court Of Appeal

ADEOLA YUSUF

The Court of Appeal Abuja has uphold the July 16 election in Osun State that produced Ademola Adeleke’s as Governor- Elect. The three man Panel led by Justice Mohammed Shuaibu dismissed the decision of the Osun State tribunal which directed that a certificate of return be withdrawn from Adeleke and issued to Oyetola. The tribunal upheld the issue of BVAS against Oyetola stating that the Osun state tribunal was wrong to have said there was over voting and only relying on the evidence by Oyetola and APC, and as such…

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Four Men To Die By Hanging For Robbery

ADEOLA YUSUF

A Lagos State High Court sitting in Ikeja on Thursday sentenced four men to death by hanging for armed robbery and kidnapping of a woman, Mrs Gloria Emole. The convicts are Victor Chukwunonso, Ifeanyi Maduaka, Obinna Nwankwo and Richard Nwabueze. READ ALSO: Seplat Drags Co-Founder Ambrose Orjiako to Court, Demands N5bn DARE AND DIE: Arrest Putin Abroad, Lose Lives And Limbs -Russia’s Ex-leader Nigerian In US Visa Racketeering, UN Letters Forgery Arraigned 10 Productive Ways To Use ChatGPT At Work Justice Lateef Lawal-Akapo held that the prosecution was able to…

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Seplat Drags Co-Founder Ambrose Orjiako to Court, Demands N5bn

ADEOLA YUSUF

Seplat Energy Plc has begun legal proceedings against its co-founder Ambrose Orjiako and a consultancy firm Amaze Limited. The energy company said in a statement on Thursday signed by its board chairman Basil Omiyi that the consultancy agreement with the firm has also been terminated. Seplat has been enmeshed in controversy in recent times with its CEO Roger Brown asked to step down following allegations of racism against Nigerian staff. READ ALSO: DARE AND DIE: Arrest Putin Abroad, Lose Lives And Limbs -Russia’s Ex-leader Nigerian In US Visa Racketeering, UN…

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DARE AND DIE: Arrest Putin Abroad, Lose Lives And Limbs -Russia’s Ex-leader

ADEOLA YUSUF

“Let’s imagine — it’s clear that this is a situation that will never happen — but nevertheless let’s imagine it does,”Dmitry Medvedev Speaks on how attempt on Putin is a’Declaration Of War’     Russia’s ex-president Dmitry Medvedev has warned that attempts to arrest Vladimir Putin abroad after the International Criminal Court issued a warrant against him would be seen by Moscow as a “declaration of war”. Medvedev, who served as president between 2008 and 2012, has made increasingly hawkish speeches since Putin sent troops to Ukraine, repeatedly issuing nuclear…

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Nigerian In US Visa Racketeering, UN Letters Forgery Arraigned

ADEOLA YUSUF

His modus operandi and how we burst his bubbles – Police Special Fraud Unit   The Police Special Fraud Unit in Milverston, Ikoyi, Lagos State has arraigned Abioye Abolaji on an 11-count charge bordering on alleged forgery and obtaining money by false pretence, false representation and stealing. PSFU spokesman, Superintendent of Police Eyitayo Johnson, made this known in a statement he issued on Thursday. READ ALSO Man Defiles Colleague’s 9 Year-Old Daughter, Bags Life Imprisonment JAMB: 176,408 Candidates to Write Mock-UTME CROSSFIRE: Fayose Mocks Ayu, Says PDP Suspension Last Kick…

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Man Defiles Colleague’s 9 Year-Old Daughter, Bags Life Imprisonment

ADEOLA YUSUF

“The minor gave vivid and gory account of her ordeal in the hands of the defendant.”   An Ikeja Sexual offences and Domestic Violence Court on Thursday sentenced a 51-year-old Utility Officer, Ubregbo Parmer, to life imprisonment for defiling his colleague’s nine-year-old daughter. The News Agency of Nigeria reports Justice Abiola Soladoye held that the prosecution had sufficiently proven the charge. Soladoye said that the overwhelming narrative of the prosecution witnesses: survivor and medical doctor, showed that the convict committed the offence. READ ALSO: JAMB: 176,408 Candidates to Write Mock-UTME…

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JAMB: 176,408 Candidates to Write Mock-UTME

ADEOLA YUSUF

+ Direct messages for candidates who registered for the 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) optional Mock-UTME The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board(JAMB) has said that it will examine 176,408 candidates in its 2023 mock examination scheduled to hold on Thursday, March 30. The Head, Public Affairs and Protocol of JAMB, Dr Fabian Benjamin, disclosed this in a statement made available to newsmen in Abuja on Thursday. Benjamin said that the board had also directed candidates who registered for the 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) optional Mock-UTME that their…

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CROSSFIRE: Fayose Mocks Ayu, Says PDP Suspension Last Kick of A Dead Horse

ADEOLA YUSUF

Ekiti ex-governor, Anyim, two others remain suspended, says Ayu Ayu and his cohorts are only entertaining themselves with the purported suspension as their latest comedy skit – Fayose   Former Governor of Ekiti state, Southwest Nigeria, Ayo Fayose, has described his purported suspension from the PDP, by the Senator Iyorchia Ayu-led National Working Committee of the party as “the last kick of a dead horse.” Platforms Africa reports that Fayose, who reacted to the suspension through his Spokesperson, Lere Olayinka, said “Ayu and his cohorts are only entertaining themselves with…

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Nigeria Approves N454bn For Kano-Niger Republic Rail, Others

ADEOLA YUSUF

The Federal Executive Council, on Wednesday, approved the sum of N453.90bn for the procurement of rolling stock, operation and maintenance equipment for the Kano-Maradi standard gauge rail line currently under construction. The amount also includes N510.93m meant for procuring four customised fire service/search and rescue vans in seaports at Port Harcourt, Lagos Port Complex, Tincan Island port and the Marina headquarters of the Nigerian Ports Authority. The Minister of Transportation, Mu’azu Sambo, disclosed this to State House correspondents after this week’s Council meeting chaired by the President, Major General Muhammadu…

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