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…
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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…
Former Special Adviser to ex-President Muhammadu Buhari on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, will on 1 September assume the position of Executive Vice Chairman at The Sun Newspaper. Mr Adesina, who served as the Managing Editor and Editor-in-Chief of the newspaper before his appointment as presidential spokesperson , told The Crest in an interview on 26 May, his last working day, about the new appointment approved by the company’s founder, Orji Kalu, a senator. “I came from The Sun newspaper. I was the MD/Editor-in-Chief (of the publishing company). And when I wanted to leave, Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu said ‘Don’t…
Former Minister of State for Labour and Employment Festus Keyamo has described the segment of media reports that claimed President Bola Tinubu ended fuel subsidy as “mischievous.” In a Tweet, he maintained that Tinubu did not remove fuel subsidy. The President, during his inaugural address, said there was no budgetary allocation for fuel subsidy in the 2023 budget. Tinubu also promised to focus subsidy funds on infrastructural projects, education, and healthcare. Keyamo explained that the President merely inherited a regime where there was no provision for subsidy in the 2023 Appropriation Act as of June 2023 and the Petroleum Industry…
A member of the Peoples Democratic Party’s National Executive Committee, Timothy Osadolor, says the immediate-past governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, is no longer a member of the party, given his conduct before, during and after the 2023 general elections. Osadolor, who gave the hint in a telephone conversation on Tuesday, noted that the leadership of the party had decided to isolate Wike and render him inconsequential in the affairs of the PDP. According to him, Wike’s recent public outings wherein he appeared to be leaning towards the All Progressives Congress, give him away as a man in perpetual craving…
The Group Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, Mele Kyari, on Tuesday, in Abuja said the Federal Government still owes the company N2.8tn that it had spent on petrol subsidy. “Today, we are waiting for them to settle up to N2.8tn of NNPC’s cash flow from the subsidy regime and we can’t continue to build this,” Kyari told State House Correspondents after meeting with President Bola Tinubu at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. During his inaugural speech on Monday, the President said he was aware that the 2023 appropriation act does not provide for petrol subsidy beyond…
The Deputy High Judge of the Royal Courts of Justice in London, Leslie Samuels, has ordered that Swedish millionaire heiress, Louise Backstrom, 33, give her former husband, Martin Wennberg, 39, more than £6.5 million, following the breakdown of their six-year marriage. The couple had been entangled in a dispute over money in the family court after Wennberg filed for a financial package worth more than £40 million following their separation, but the judge ruled against the amount. Judge Samuels considered the evidence at a recent private hearing and outlined his conclusions in a written judgment, Daily Mail reported on Tuesday.…
The long awaited price for petrol was effected by NNPC limited Wednesday morning providing clarity around prices post the removal of the controversial subsidy whic cost almost $10bn annually. BusinessDay also notes that this new development is seen in Lagos where NNPCL now retail fuel at N488 a litre at its station on Kingsway Ikoyi while the NNPC Mega Station, Lagos Bus Stop, at Port Harcourt today sells for N511 per litre. NNPC is the sole supplier of petrol in Nigeria today and it is now expected that other marketers will take a queue from the NNPC prices and adjust…