‘It is high time the leaders stopped taking Nigerians for a ride’, What the Nobel Laureate said at the PUNCH 50th anniversary Nobel Laureate, Prof Wole Soyinka, has asserted that decentralisation is the way to go for Nigeria in the face of mounting challenges dogging its progress. Soyinka stated this at the PUNCH Newspapers’ 50th-anniversary lecture held at the Civic Centre in Lagos yesterday. He emphasised that the decentralisation of the country could make the much-expected difference. The literary icon in the lecture titled: “Recovering the Narrative” he delivered…
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Oil Marketer Arraigned For Allegedly Defrauding Customers Of N100m
An operative of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Musbau Issa, on Thursday told the Ikeja Special Offences Court how an oil marketer, Glory Benson, allegedly defrauded her customers of N100,865,000. Benson alongside two of her companies Glonnek Energy Resources Limited and Petroyal Energy Limited are facing seven counts bordering on stealing, conversion preferred against her by EFCC. The defendants were alleged to have dishonestly converted petroleum products worth the sum of N100,865,000 to their personal use. When the case was called, the EFCC’s prosecution counsel, Bilikisu Buhari, announced her…
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