ANTI-DEMOLITION PROTEST: COURT GRANTS SOWETO, DELE FRANK N200,000 BAIL EACH
By Aishat Momoh. O. A Yaba Magistrate Court in Lagos has granted bail to two organisers of the January 28 anti-demolition protest, Taiwo Hassan, popularly...
COURT OKAYS YAHAYA BELLO’S TRAVEL TO MECCA FOR LESSER HAJJ
By Aishat Momoh. O. The Federal High Court in Abuja has granted former Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello, permission to travel to Mecca, Saudi Arabia,...
LAGOS WILL SUPPORT NCC TO DRIVE ECONOMIC GROWTH – SANWO-OLU
By Aishat Momoh. O. The Governor of Lagos State, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has assured the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) of the state government’s continued support...
COURT ACQUITS DEFENDANTS, FAULTS FIDELITY BANK’S CONTROLS IN ALLEGED N964M FRAUD
By Aishat Momoh. O. [caption id="attachment_102959" align="alignnone" width="300"] The defendant, a baker from the Ileejo area of Lekki, Lagos, is being tried for sexual assault.[/caption]...
12 NUPENG CONTEMNORS REPORTEDLY MISSING FROM KIRIKIRI CUSTODY AFTER COURT-ORDERED COMMITTAL
By Aishat Momoh. O. Fresh concerns have emerged in the ongoing contempt proceedings arising from the leadership crisis within the Nigeria Union of Petroleum and...
COURT DISMISSES NO-CASE SUBMISSION IN N75M FRAUD TRIAL, ORDERS DEFENDANTS TO OPEN DEFENCE
By Aishat Momoh. O. Justice Mojisola Dada of the Lagos State Special Offences Court, Ikeja, has dismissed a no-case submission filed by Chinedu Justin and...
STEALING EFCC EXHIBITS: EFCC ARRAIGNS MAN IN LAGOS COURT
By Aishat Momoh. O. [caption id="attachment_102959" align="alignnone" width="300"] The defendant, a baker from the Ileejo area of Lekki, Lagos, is being tried for sexual assault.[/caption]...
CUSTOMS INTERCEPTS AMMUNITION, EXPLOSIVES, OTHERS WORTH N721.45 MILLION IN OGUN
The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) Ogun Area 1 command reported on Thursday that it had seized 2,128 live ammunition rounds, 1,315 explosives, hard substances like heroin and methamphetamine, as well as locally produced firearms and revolver handguns. The Acting Controller of the Command, Oladapo Afeni, who disclosed this while at a press conference in Idiroko, handed over the seized arms and...
FAYEMI REFUTES CLAIMS OF ONE ON ONE MEETING WITH KWANKWASO
BY JENN NOMAMIUKOR Dr. Kayode Fayemi, the former governor of Ekiti State, has refuted rumors that he met behind closed doors at his Abuja home with Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso, the former governor of Kano State. In a statement sent on Thursday by Ahmad Sajoh, the head of his media office, Fayemi, the immediate former chairman of the Nigeria Governors' Forum, rejected the news, calling it untrue and advising people to ignore it. Several social media accounts published the report, which went viral on X (previously Twitter) on Wednesday, along with an old video clip of Fayemi welcoming Kwankwaso at his home. The statement said that the former governor of Ekiti had only seen Kwankwaso once in the previous year, and that meeting had not taken place in a private political environment. “Dr Fayemi has only met Senator Kwankwaso once in the last year, and that occasion was at the...
FG TO STOP IMPORTATION OF DEFENCE EQUIPMENT
HOTJIST NEWS With intentions to develop all necessary assets locally within the next two to five years, the Federal Government has stated that it is laying the groundwork to stop importing defense and security equipment. Bello Matawalle, the Minister of State for Defense, made this statement on Thursday in Abuja during the launching of a number of Nigerian-made civilian armored vehicles as well as the DICON X-Shield light tactical armored vehicle. Major General Babatunde Alaya, the Director-General of the Defence Industries Corporation of Nigeria, attended the event on behalf of Matawalle, who stated that the current initiatives in indigenous defense manufacturing were merely the beginning of a larger plan to produce all military and security equipment locally. "This is only the start. We will take additional steps to guarantee that all necessary defense and security equipment is manufactured domestically, and in two to five years there will not be any more imports," he stated. He said the future of Nigeria’s defence and security capability would be built locally through indigenous innovation and...