The Offa Descendants’ Union, ODU, under the able leadership of Alhaji Muideen Olaniyi Azeez-Salako, has felicitated Governor AbdulRazaq AbdulRahman on his victory as Chairman of the Nigeria Governors Forum, describing his election as NGF Chairman, as ample testimony to the national phenomenal he has attained in the last couple of years. The felicitation was contained in a congratulatory message by the union’s National Social Secretary and acting NPRO, Idowu Muhydeen Oladipo. “The union equally congratulates the governor for the recognition and conferment of the national award of Commander of the Order of the Niger, (CON), on him by former President…
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The Presidential Election Petitions Court in Abuja, on Wednesday, admitted a total of 337 exhibits tendered by the Peoples Democratic Party and its presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, challenging the emergence of President Bola Tinubu as the winner of the February 25 presidential election. At the resumed hearing in the matter, the PDP and Atiku, through their legal team, led by Chief Chris Uche (SAN), informed the court that the documents in evidence were in respect of 33 states of the federation, with the exclusion of Kaduna, Kano, Katsina and Lagos states. Among other documents that Atiku tendered before the court…
A Senior Advocate of Nigeria , Femi Falana today dragged the Federal Government before the National Industrial Court over discriminatory, unfair and illegal treatment of members of Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU). Joined in the suit as Defendants are Minister of Labour and Employment; Attorney-General of the Federation; and Accountant-General of the Federation. In the suit marked NICN/ABJ/152/2023 and filed on behalf ASUU, Falana is asking the court to determine “Whether having paid the salaries of members of the Joint Staff Union, National Association of Resident Doctors and lecturers in the Medical Facilities/Medical and Dental Academic of the Nnamdi…
Nigerian civil servants under the employment of the Federal Government will experience a delay in the payment of May 2023 salaries. It was gathered that this was because Ministries, Departments and Agencies were yet to get debit approval from the Central Bank of Nigeria. Earlier, some civil servants in separate interviews with our correspondent noted that their salaries for May 2023 have not been paid. In a memo addressed to workers of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria, the authority noted that the delay in the payment of workers was peculiar to all workers including the military and para-military. The…
A former Metropolitan Police constable, Jade Ebanks, 29, on Wednesday, appeared before District Judge Briony Clarke of the Westminster Magistrates’ Court for raping a woman five times in London. Ebanks is charged with five counts of rape against a yet-to-be-identified woman, an act he allegedly carried out two years before he joined the force. The suspect, who resigned in April 2023, allegedly carried out the act three times in Greenford, Ealing, and twice in Uxbridge, Hillingdon between March 13, 2018, and August 1, 2020. Ebanks joined the Metropolitan Police in June 2021 and was placed on patrol in Brent. He…
The Presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, has disclosed that his identity duplication crisis started in Nigeria. Obi made the disclosure on Sunday during a Twitter space organised by the Parallel Media which was monitored by Punch. Recall that Obi’s associates had raised the alarm over his delay at Heathrow Airport, United Kingdom, by immigration officers over a case of alleged identity duplication. Obi said he had been to the UK about four times in 2023, adding that he resided there before he became the governor of Anambra State. He said, “I have been to the UK this…
Lagos State Police Command has announced the dismissal of Sergeant Ekpo Shimuyere from the Sogunle Division for extorting N98,000 from a young man. The Lagos State Police Command’s spokesperson, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, disclosed on Wednesday that Shimuyere was dismissed and disrobed by the Provost Department of the command for extorting N98,000 from a young man. Shimuyere, it was reported, collected the young man’s phone and used a POS operator to transfer N98,000 out of the N100,000 in the young man’s bank account. Hundeyin stated that the policeman’s actions were against the ethics of the profession. “Police got the complaint from…
The governor of Sokoto State, Dr Ahmed Aliyu, has revoked the appointments of 23 permanent secretaries and 15 directors general made by the immediate past governor, Aminu Waziri Tambuwal. The governor, who assumed office around noon Tuesday, also suspended the 14 traditional rulers recently appointed by his predecessor. The traditional rulers include 13 district heads and the newly appointed Magajin Garin Sokoto, Alhaji Sama’ila Abdulkadir Mujeli. The district heads are Alhaji Aliyu Abubakar III (Ciroman Sokoto) and District Head of Sokoto North LGA; Alhaji Buhari Dahiru Tambuwal, Sarkin Tambuwal; Alhaji Ibrahim Dasuki Muhammadu Maccido (Barayan Zaki) and District Head of…
The notice of their resignations was contained in two separate letters addressed to the Senate President. Two Senators of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Senators Mathew Urhogide and Ayo Akinyelure have resigned from the party. The notice of their resignations was contained in two separate letters addressed to the Senate President, Ahmad Lawan and read during Wednesday’s plenary session. Senator Urhogide represents Edo South Senatorial District in the red chamber while Senator Akinyelure represents Ondo Central Senatorial District. In the letter, Senator Urhogide said his decision to resign is because of the inability of the PDP to reconcile the power…
An Osun State High Court sitting in Osogbo has sentenced Miss Adedeji Adesola, the receptionist who received late Timothy Adegoke when he lodged in the Hilton Honors Hotel, Ile-Ife in the evening of November 6, 2021, to two years imprisonment for altering the receipt issued to the deceased. It was claimed that the receptionist created a different receipt to hide any evidence of Adegoke’s lodging at the motel. Adesola was found guilty on Tuesday by the presiding court, Justice Adepele Ojo, of altering the hotel receipt given to the deceased, creating another, and hiding evidence brought against her. Ojo stated…