By Abimbola Ogunnaike The Supreme Court of Nigeria has denied that the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Olukayode Ariwoola had no telephone conversation with anyone, including President Bola Tinubu on the ongoing presidential election petition on the 2023 election, thegazellenews.com reports. The Apex Court said Justice Ariwoola neither spoke with Tinubu nor the Director General of the Department of State Service (DSS) with a view to pressurizing the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal over the judgment. The Director of Press and Information, Supreme Court of Nigeria, Dr Akande Festus made the clarification in a statement issued on Wednesday, 19 July, 2023 in…
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By Abimbola Ogunnaike The Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund), has confirmed that more than 137 students sponsored abroad bythe fund absconded. The Executive Secretary of TETFund, Sonny Echono, made this disclosure on Tuesday, 19 July, 2023, while addressing the House of Representatives Ad-hoc committee investigating the alleged mismanagement of N2.3 trillion tertiary education tax by TETFund. Echono said the scholars who were sponsored by TETFund for “higher education” abroad refuse to return to the country after completing their programmes, adding that stringent measures would be put in place to curb future happenings. “Some of the scholars that have been sponsored, unpatriotically…
By Abimbola Ogunnaike A three-year-old boy has been killed by dogs in the Umuogodo community, Igbo Etche in the Etche Local Government Area of Rivers State. A veterinary doctor, Desmond Ezekiel, who takes care of the dogs, confirm to an online medium that the three-year-old was attacked after his parents left for work on Monday, 17 July, 2023 The eldest daughter, according to Ezekiel, had released the dogs from their cage for security while their parents were away, but the dog turned around to attack the boy and his sister. He said he was notified by neighbours of the victims…
By Abimbola Ogunnaike The House of Representatives has called on President Bola Tinubu to lift the embargo on employment. The House made the plea at the plenary on Wednesday, 19 July, 2023 following the adoption of a motion moved by Francis Ejiroghene Waive. Moving the motion, the lawmaker said the immediate past administration, during the recession, due to a huge drop in the international price of crude oil and the COVID-19 pandemic, placed an embargo on employment in Federal Ministries, Departments and Agencies of the federal government. He recalled that the 9th House passed a resolution calling on the then…
By Abimbola Ogunnaike The Cross River State Police Command has confirmed the arrest of a 54-year-old man for allegedly beating his girlfriend to death in Calabar South Local Government Area of the state. The command’s spokesperson, SP Irene Ugbo, confirmed the arrest in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Calabar on Wednesday, 19 July, 2023, She said that the suspect attacked the victim, simply identified as Ndereke, after a minor disagreement that occurred at Abasi Obori Street on Tuesday, 18 July, 2023. Ugbo said the personnel of Uwanse Divisional Police Headquarters carried out the arrest following…
Eminent Nigerians, including Imo State governor, Senator Hope Uzodimma; his Bayelsa State counterpart, Douye Diri; former Deputy National Chairman of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Olabode George; Aare Onakakanfo of Yoruba land, Iba Gani Adams, among others on Tuesday, 18 July, 2023, in Lagos stressed the need for a new constitution that would reflect the wishes and aspirations of the people of Nigeria, declaring that the citizens desired good governance. They expressed this view at a public lecture organised by Freedom Online newspaper themed: “2023- 2027: Nigerians, Elected Leaders and Expectations,” stressing that further reliance on the 1999 Constitution as…
A team of technical engineers from India has arrived in Ogun State to begin the process of converting vehicles from fuel to Compressed Natural Gas (CNG). The move signals the commencement of the E-Mobility and Gas Mobility Programme of the state government, which involves the conversion of mass transit buses from fuel to gas and tricycles and motorcycles to electric. The four-man technical team will work on the pilot project, initiate the first phase of the Gas Mobility Programme and further prepare a process map to scale up and do a phase-wise implementation on all the commercial buses in the…
The Acting Inspector General of Police, IGP Kayode Adeolu Egbetokun, on Tuesday, 18 July, 2023, received the esteemed members of the Association of Retired Police Officers of Nigeria (ARPON) at the Force Headquarters, Abuja led by its 1st Vice President, AIG Paul O. Ochonu (Rtd), NPM, and 2nd Vice President, CP Samuel Adetunji, Rtd. The meeting, held with members of ARPON under the auspices of the Retired Officers Consultative Forum, lends credence to the IGP’s commitment to fostering a strong relationship with retired officers and leveraging their valuable experience to achieve the mandate of the Nigeria Police Force. During the…
By Abimbola Ogunnaike At least over N1 billion worth of seized drugs have been destroyed by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) in Delta State. The drugs, it was gathered, weighing 5,723.310kg, were burnt at Ogwashi-Uku in Aniocha South Local Government Area of the state. The Chairman/Chief Executive Officer of the agency, Major Gen. Buba Marwa (rtd), said the public destruction of the drugs was dedicated to the late Ivan Omhonria, the two-year-old minor who was killed by a stray bullet on Thursday, 13 July, 2023 in the Okpanam area of Delta State where operatives of NDLEA were chasing drug…
By Abimbola Ogunnaike A Federal High Court presided over by Justice S.A Amobeda sitting in Kano has stopped the State Public Complaints and Anti-corruption Commission from investigating the alleged missing N100 billion from the state’s Local Government Council accounts. Justice S.A. Amobeda, on Tuesday, 18 July, 2023 also stopped the anti-graft commission and its agents from inviting, investigating, arresting, and intimidating local government chairmen in the state, pending the determination of the applicants’ motion on notice. The court gave the restraining order upon an exparte application moved by counsel to the applicants, Morgan C. Omereonye. The applicants are 15 local government…