Community News DPR seals off the construction site, orders ‘stop work’ A businesswoman, Yemisi Rosiji, is currently battling with landlords and residents of Isokan-West community of Ijaye Ojokoro LCDA over her alleged plan to set up a gas plant in the wholly residential area of the council. In 2018, Ms Rosiji is said to have Read more
Nigeria, on Tuesday, recorded 187 new cases of the coronavirus disease as total infections in the country rose to 58,647. While about 50,000 infected persons have recovered and have been discharged across the 36 states and Abuja, the federal capital, while there are still about 7, 500 active cases. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control Read more
Oreoluwa Adesakin, a former employee of First Bank of Nigeria Limited, has been sentenced to a cumulative 98 years in prison on Monday after she was found guilty of stealing N49,320,652.32 and another $368,203 belonging to the bank. The convict was said to have converted the sums to her personal use. Adesakin was prosecuted by Read more
The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC), has issued an order suspending the September 1, 2020 hike in electricity tariff for two weeks following an agreement reached with the organised Labour on the suspension of the strike over the increase in the pump price of petrol and hike in electricity tariff late Sunday night. In complying Read more
The Deputy Chief of Staff to Governor Gboyega Oyetola of Osun State, Abdullahi Binuyo, has been charged to a High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, by The Inspector-General of Police over alleged fraud involving $120,000. Binuyo was charged for conspiracy, fraud, cheating and forgery in a suit numbered CR/975/2020 filed on September 9, Read more
Dutch owned FrieslandCampina WAMCO, a multinational dairy products company, has announced that it has completed the purchase of Nutricima’s dairy business in Nigeria. The Executive Director, Corporate Affairs, FrieslandCampina WAMCO Nigeria, Mrs Ore Famurewa, disclosed this in a statement on Tuesday in Lagos. Famurewa said that FrieslandCampina and PZ Cussons signed an agreement regarding the Read more
The chairman of the presidential panel investigating Ibrahim Magu, suspended chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ayo Salami, has disclosed that he does not regret his appointment to serve on the probe panel. Magu, a former acting chairman of the anti-graft agency, is being investigated over allegations of abuse of office and Read more
Agency Report The Nigerian Institute of Medical Research (NIMR) on Tuesday presented the newly launched SARS-CoV-2 Isothemal Molecular Assay (SIMA) to the Federal Ministry of Health. Prof. Babatunde Salako, Director General of the Institute, said on his twitter handle that a demo on the usage of the kit was also done at the presentation. Salako Read more
The Uyo Zonal office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC on Monday, September 28, 2020 secured the conviction of 14 internet fraudsters on separate one-count charge before Justice Simon Amobeda of the Federal High Court sitting in Calabar, Cross River State. The convicts are; Victor Chikeluba Ogadibo, Unwana Aniefiok Edem, Michael Omos, Emediong Read more
Swears in six new permanent secretaries, four principals-general and 4 Headteachers general Ogun State government has assured that all outstanding entitlements of its workers would be paid, just as it commended the State trade union leaders for their civil and mature ways of handling issues. The State Governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun made the pledge at Read more
