The Lagos Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has secured the conviction and sentence of one Hammed Saka to three months imprisonment for hawking new Naira notes He was jailed by Justice Ayokunle Faji of the Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos. The charge reads: “That you, Hammed Saka, on or about the 14h day of December, 2024, at Villa Dome Event Centre, Okotie-Eboh Street, Ikoyi, in Lagos, within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court, hawked the sum of N800,000.00 (Eight Hundred Thousand Naira) issued by the Central Bank of Nigeria and thereby committed an…
Author: Abimbola Ogunaike
Billionaire businesswoman and philanthropist, Aisha Achimugu has been in the news in the last couple of days for the wrong reasons. This time, it is not for her regular philanthropic activities, new business breakthroughs or the crowd-pulling parties but for unfounded stories about her being on the run. Curiously, the purveyors of the falsehood did not bother to even ask the basic questions either from the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), the organization they claimed was after her or even the unknown, unlisted or fictitious person or persons behind the claim that she was arrested and detained. Obviously, the…
President Bola Tinubu has congratulated Mr Ifejola Arowolo, an administrator and public health icon, on his 80th birthday. “The President joins family, friends, and well-wishers in celebrating the life of a respected pharmacist whose career has spanned the public and private health sectors in Nigeria and the United States,” a statement by Bayo Onanuga, Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, said on Friday, 21 March, 2025. he President commended Arowolo’s exemplary service to the country, notably as the pioneer Chairman of the National Drug Abuse Committee in Ondo State and former Director of Pharmaceutical services in the…
As Nigeria continues regional consultations on the 2025 Voluntary National Review (VNR), the Senior Special Assistant to the President on SDGs (SSAP-SDGs), Princess Adejoke Orelope-Adefulire, OFR, has emphasized the need for stakeholders to intensify efforts towards the achievement of the SDGs by 2030. Princess Orelope-Adefulire spoke in Abuja on Thursday, 20 March, 2025, during the North-Central VNR Consultation with the Theme: “Advancing sustainable, inclusive, science- and evidence-based solutions for the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its Sustainable Development Goals for leaving no one behind”. She stated that stated that the Voluntary National Reviews are the cornerstone of the follow…
The Chairman of Ayobo-Ipaja Local Council Development Area, Mrs Bola Sobowale is dead, reports thegazellenews.com The death of Mrs Sobowale was reported on Friday, 21 March, 2025 after a protracted illness. Thegazellenews.com reports further that Mrs Sobowale has been sick for a long time which precipitated a successor crisis at the council. She was reported not to be favourably inclined towards handing over to her deputy while seeking medical treatment handing over instead to the Council Manager. However, three days ago, the Governor of Lagos State, Babajide Sanwo-Olu swore in Sobowale’s deputy, Oluwaloni in acting capacity. Sobowale was a veteran…
The Federal High Court, Lokoja, Kogi State has granted an interim injunction restraining the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) from receiving petitions for the purpose of initiating a recall process against Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan. The push to recall the suspended senator intensified on Thursday, 20 March, 2025 with more groups in Kogi Central throwing their weight behind the process. However, a group of Ebira indigenes refuted the claim that the recall process was being sponsored and influenced with money by Akpoti-Uduaghan’s political opponents.) Nevertheless, the court, which gave the order on Thursday, 20 March, 2025 also restricted INEC staff, agents,…
The Supreme Court on Friday, 21 March, 2025 nullified the judgments of the Court of Appeal and Federal High Court, which sacked Senator Samuel Anyanwu as National Secretary of the People’s Democratic Party, (PDP). A five-member panel of the Apex Court on Friday, 21 March, 2025 held that the issue of who is the National Secretary of the PDP borders on the internal affairs of a political party, which is not justiciable. Justice Jamilu Tukur, who delivered the lead judgment of the Supreme Court, consequently struck out the judgment of the trial court delivered in October last year and also…
Zimbabwe’s sports minister Kirsty Coventry has been elected as the new president of the International Olympic Committee. The 41-year-old former swimmer, who won two Olympic gold medals, will replace German Thomas Bach – who has held the role since 2013 – and become the first woman, the first African and the youngest person to hold the role. World Athletics boss Lord Coe was among the favourites to win Thursday, 20 March, 2025, election in Greece, but Coventry secured an absolute majority of 49 of the 97 votes available in the first round. Runner-up Juan Antonio Samaranch Jr won 28 votes…
The crisis rocking the Lagos Central Mosque snowballed into a sad twist on Wednesday, 19 March, 2025, when the Baba Adinni of Lagos, Alhaji Sikiru Alabi Macfoy was arraigned at the Santana Magistrate Court in Lagos Island, reports thegazellenews.com This medium learnt that the bone of contention was the organisation of the Ramadan lecture of the mosque which allegedly has been strongly advised not to hold in the interest of peace. The Chief Imam of Lagos, Sheikh Sulaiman Abou-Nolah and the state Commissioner of Police dragged the Baba Adinni to court accusing him of disrupting the Chief Imam’s Ramadan lecture…
After years of hardship following a wrongful shooting by SSS operatives, a Sokoto businessman finally receives justice as the agency has compensated him. The incident occurred in the early hours of April 2, 2016, when SSS operatives raided his residence in Jos, Plateau State, mistaking him for a suspected gunrunner who shared the same last name. During the raid, they shot him in the thigh before later realizing their mistake. Despite a 2018 court ruling ordering the SSS to compensate him with ₦10 million for the violation of his fundamental rights, justice was delayed for years. However, on March 15,…