By Abimbola Ogunnaike In a bid to increase Liquefied Petroleum Gas, popularly called cooking gas volume domestically and to crash the price of the commodity, the Federal Government on Thursday, 22 February, 2024 announced the banning of the exportation of the product. The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources (Gas), Ekperikpe Ekpo, made this disclosure while speaking on the sidelines of the internal stakeholders’ workshop in Abuja on Thursday. According to Ekpo, the LPG producers in Nigeria and key stakeholders in the industry had been told to stop exporting the commodity out of Nigeria, following the recent jump in the…
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By Abimbola Ogunnaike Following a correspondence between Benue State Governor, Hyacinth Alia and the state House of Assembly, the later on Tuesday, 21 February, 2024 approved the sack of three local government caretaker committee chairmen over alleged financial misconduct and criminal activities. The Speaker of the House, Hyacinth Dajoh, who reads the correspondence to the ears of the lawmakers during plenary session yesterday, also approved replacements for the three council boss. The affected chairmen are Tavershima Agber, Gboko, Gideon Haanongon, Ukum, and Francis Zazan of Katsina-Ala. The correspondence also urged the House to replace the sacked trio with Verlumun Avar,…
By Abimbola Ogunnaike The Ebonyi State Ministry of Health has announced that Lassa fever had killed at least killed 14 people in the state. The 14 cases were among the 29 confirmed cases of the disease recorded as at February 20 this year in the state. The Director of Public Health at the Ministry, Dr Hyacinth Ebenyi, confirmed the development during an interview with newsmen in Abakaliki, the state capital on Wednesday, 21 February, 2024. Ebenyi added that at least 110 suspected cases of the disease were recently recorded in the state. “Yes, there has been an increase in the cases…
By Abimbola Ogunnaike A 67-year-old drug dealer, Orji Isaac, is currently cooling his feet in one of the cells of the Lagos State Police Command for allegedly selling drugs to a 22-year-old man identified as Lekan Ganiyu. The command, which confirmed the arrest in a post it shared on its X handle @LagosPoliceNG on Wednesday, 21 February, 2024,said that its operatives arrested the suspects in the Yaba area of the state. “Police officers of Sabo Division, while embarking on surveillance patrol busted a drug dealer, Isaac, while selling drugs to Ganiyu. “The duo will be arraigned in court at the conclusion of…
By Abimbola Ogunnaike A pastor and five others have been sentenced to death by hanging on Wednesday, 22 February, 2024 by an Ondo State High Court in Akure, Ondo State capital over their involvement in bank robberies which took place in Akure and Idanre in 2011. The convicts are: a pastor, Adewale Adelu, and five others – Ikechuckwu Maduagwu, Fayemi Olubusuyi, Ropo Adeleye, Dele Otopka, and Bayo Omotosho. The court presided by Justice Yemi Fasanmi found guilty of robbing two commercial banks in Akure and Idanre on November 19 and December 8, 2011 in Akure and Idanre respectively. They were arrested by…
By Abimbola Ogunnaike The Nigerian Senate has warned the Federal Government not to contemplate of increasing electricity tariff for now, saying that doing so would worsen the plight of Nigerians, just as it said that doing the increase at this time would have backlash effects. The Red Chamber handed the warning at a plenary presided by the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio on Wednesday, 21 February, 2024. The Senate further adopted a resolution asking its Committee on Power to investigate the over N2 trillion subsidy requirements, as claimed by the Minister of Power, and another N1.3 trillion owed electricity Generation Companies…
By Abimbola Ogunnaike The Children, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence Court sitting at the Chief Magistrate’s Court in Awka, Anambra State and presided over by Genevieve Osakwe on Wednesday ordered the remand of Anambra State based lawyer, Adachukwu Okafor. Justice Osakwe said the accused should be remanded at the State Criminal and Investigative Department custody in Awka, for allegedly inflicting physical injuries on the body of her 11-year-old housekeeper. Okafor, who resides at Chris Igwilo Street Akapka GRA, 3-3 Onitsha of Anambra State, was arraigned before the court for the alleged offence The female lawyer was said to have allegedly used various objects…
By Abimbola Ogunnaike The Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, has disclosed that each state governor has been allocated an extra N30 billion to address the challenges of food scarcity and hardships confronting Nigerians. Akpabio said each state should properly utilize the money towards ensuring the availability of food to their citizens. Speaking on the floor of the senate on Wednesday, 21 February, 2024, Akapbio said: “I must say that unverified report has it that each of the state government in the last few months received additional N30 billion from Federal Inland Revenue Service, outside their normal allocation from the federation account…
By Abimbola Ogunnaike President Bola Tinubu has approved the appointment of DCG Kemi Nanna Nandap to serve as the Comptroller-General of the Nigeria Immigration Service. Nandap will take over from Mrs. Caroline Wura-Ola Adepoju whose term in office expires on Thursday, 29 February, 2024. Nandap’s appointment would take effect from Friday, 1 March,, 2024. This was contained in a statement issued on Wednesday, 21 February, 2024 by the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Ajuri Ngelale, Before she was appointed Comptroller-General, Nandap was the Deputy Comptroller-General in charge of the Migration Directorate of the Service. “The President anticipates…
By Abimbola Ogunnaike Catalonia’s top court in Spain on Thursday, 22 February, 2024 sentenced former Barcelona defender, Dani Alves, to four and a half years in prison for sexually assaulting a lady in a nightclub in 2022. The court also ordered that Alves pay €150,000 to the victim. “The sentence considers that it has been proven that the victim did not consent and that there is evidence, in addition to the testimony of the plaintiff, to consider the rape proven,” the court said in a statement. Alves, a former Brazilian international, insisted the sex was consensual. After the verdict, his…