By Abimbola Ogunnaike Osun State High Court sitting in Osogbo presided over by Justice Osun Kudirat Akano on Wednesday, 26 June, 2024 remanded monarch, Elegbedi of Egbedi, Oba Muideen Azeez and four others over alleged destruction of farmland They were arraigned on a 29-count charge of arson and destruction of farm and crops worth N200 million Appearing before Justice Akano on Wednesday, 26 June, 2024 with Oba Azeez were: Akibu Abioye, Yisa Akolapo, Rasidi Ayandiran and Sarafadeen Abioye. The charge sheet reads that, “Oba Muideen Olanivi Azeez (A.k.a Asemalu,) Akeeb Azeez Abioye, Yisa Surajudeen Akolapo (A.k.a. Kola Isah), Rasidi Ayandiran,…
Author: Abimbola Ogunaike
By Abimbola Ogunnaike At least 30 drug offenders in Imo State have been convicted by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) from July 2023 to June 2024. The agency also disclosed that it seized 2,639.27 kilograms of hard drugs, arrested 192 offenders. The Imo Commander of NDLEA, Abdullahi Saeed, made this disclosure while addressing newsmen as part of activities marking the 2024 United Nations International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking in Owerri on Wednesday, 26 June, 2024. According to Saeed, out of the 192 drug offenders arrested, 171 were males and 21 were females, added that among…
By Abimbola Ogunnaike Operatives of the Yobe State Police Command have arrested a 22-year-old housewife for allegedly stabbing her husband to death in the Abbari area of Damaturu metropolis. The Command’s Public Relations Officer, DSP Dungus Abdulkarim, made this disclosure in a statement issued on Wednesday, 26 June, 2024. “On 26-06-24, at about 1000hrs, the C Divisional Police Headquarters received a complaint from a neighbor in Abbari Ward, Damaturu, about a couple, Ibrahim Yahaya, 25 years old, and Zainab Isa, 22 years old. The couple had a violent argument on the same date at about 0900hrs, which escalated into a…
By Abimbola Ogunnaike A Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court in Gwagwalada, presided over by Justice Aliyu Shafa, on Wednesday, 26 June, 2024 sentenced a 29-year-old internet fraudster, Eke Emmanuel, AKA Miller Fulton, to one year imprisonment for swindling his victim of $700. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) had arraigned the convict before the court on a charge of cheating by impersonation. Emmanuel pleaded guilty to the charge and begged the court for mercy. Delivering judgment, Justice Shafa, held that the convict was guilty and sentenced to the term in the correctional centre. Shafa, however, granted the convict…
A judge on Wednesday, 26 June, 2024 found a woman Lauren Dickason, guilty of killing her three children and sentenced her to 18 years imprisonment. The convicted woman in New Zealand, Dickason, will begin her sentence at a mental health hospital for the triple killings, according to a Christchurch High Court official. In a statement to local media after her sentencing, remorseful Lauren Dickason said, “I take responsibility for taking our three beautiful girls from this world.” She said that with particular reference to her husband, identified simply as Graham “I would like to take this opportunity to convey the…
By Abimbola Ogunnaike Tragedy occurred in Ribang village, Kauru local government area of Kaduna State on Tuesday,25 June, 2024 as six school children drowned in a river while returning from a West African Junior School Examination (Junior WAEC), in the evening. The victims who were identified as Manasseh Monday (16 yrs), Musa John (16 yrs), Pius David (15 yrs), Monday Ayuba (16 yrs), David Danlami (19 yrs), and Yahuza Audu (16 yrs) were reported to have drowned in the Mbang River at Ribang Village. The victims were students of Government Secondary School, Fadan Chawai. The National Public Relations Officer of…
By Abimbola Ogunnaike A section of Dangote Refinery was engulfed by fire on Wednesday, 26 June. 2024. Explosions were heard on Wednesday , 26 June, 2024 after a major fire outbreak at the refinery located at the Ibeju-Lekki area of Lagos State. As of the time of filing this report, the Dangote group has yet to react to the fire outbreak. Recall that Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote had disclosed that he fought and overcame a strong group of local and foreign mafia before establishing the $19 billion refinery. Dangote said the mafia in the oil sector, who are stronger…
Three weeks after the revocation of Heritage Bank, customers of the defunct bank have raised alarm over the delayed payment of their trapped deposits by the Nigerian Deposit Insurance Corporation (NDIC). The President of the Bank Customers’ Association of Nigeria, Uju Ogunbunka, made this disclosure during an interview with Daily Post on Wednesday, 26 June, 2024 Ogunbunka, who said NDIC should not procrastinate on the payment to depositors of the defunct bank, explained that NDIC may be facing challenges which are causing the delay in payments to customers of the defunct bank. “Yes, customers are complaining of delays in payment…
By Abimbola Ogunnaike Vice-President Kashim Shettima has denied that President Bola Tinubu is working against the interest of Northern Nigeria. Shettima stated this on Wednesday, 26 June, 2024 in Kano while receiving a Federal Government’s delegation led by the Chief of Staff to the President, Femi Bajabiamila, on a condolence visit over the death of his mother-in-law. Hajiya Maryam Abubakar. To support his claim, the vice-president cited the appointment of the two Ministers of Defence, the Chief of Defence Staff, and the Chairman of Police Service Commission, among others, all from the North, as evidence of the president’s commitment to…
By Abimbola Ogunnaike Representatives of the Federal Government and the leadership of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), on Wednesday, 26 June, 2024 held a closed door meeting to discuss lingering issues towards averting a planned strike by the union. The meeting, it was gathered which commenced at about 4.30 pm., were held in the office of the Minister of Education, Prof Tahir Mamman The Minister of State for Education, Dr Yusuf Sununu and other top officials in the Ministry are in the Federal Government team. ASUU President, Emmanuel Osodeke, who led the union’s delegation told newsmen that the…