A Kano High Court presided over by Justice Usman Na’Abba on Thursday, dissolved the four additional emirates and first class emirs created by the Kano State Government. Gov. Abdullahi Ganduje, had on May 8, assented to a controversial law establishing four additional emirates with first class emirs in Bichi, Rano, Karaye and Gaya. But, the … Read more
….. Invictus Obi To Forfeit N280m To FG A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos State has ordered Obinwanne Okeke, popularly known as Invictus Obi to finally forfeit to the Federal Government, the sum of N280,555,010 traced to him. The order was given on Thursday by Justice Rilwan Aikawa following the submissions of the Economic … Read more
A Kaduna Magistrates’ Court on Thursday remanded a 55-year-old man, identified as Dayyabu Dankaka, for allegedly raping a 13-year-old. The Magistrate, Mrs Hajara Dauda, who did not take the defendant’s plea, ordered that he be kept in prison pending advice from the state Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP). Dauda adjourned the case until Dec. 2 … Read more
A Federal High Court Sitting in Lagos, on Thursday, ordered the final forfeiture of N280.5million in the bank accounts of Invictus Oil and Gas Limited and Invictus Investment Limited. Read Also: Gunmen Attack Commissioner, Kill Driver The account is owned by Obinwanne Okeke, alleged strong leader of a cybercrime syndicate specialized in business email compromise. … Read more
Oyo State Commissioner for Lands, Abdulraheem Abiodun, has been reportedly attacked by yet-to-be-identified gunmen, who also killed his driver in the process. His orderly was also attacked and currently hospitalised after sustaining bullet wound. Read Also: Breaking: Court Nullifes Creation Of 4 New Emirates The attack which reportedly took place last night around 8:00 p.m. … Read more
A Kano State High Court has nullified the appointment and creation of four additional Emirates in Kano State. Read Also: We Will Make Lagos Desirable For Investment – Sanwo-Olu Presiding Judge, Usman Na’abba says the State Assembly’s attempt to establish four new emirates in the state is unconstitutional.
When Dr Nosiru Olajide Onibon was appointed as the acting Provost of Michael Otedola College of Primary Education (MOCPED), Noforija, Epe, following the death of its former Provost, Professor Olurotimi Akeusola, little did anyone envisage the turnaround he would bring to the college within such a short period of his astute leadership. Since his appointment … Read more
Welcome to EKOHOTBLOG roundup of top Major Nigerian headlines for today, Thursday, November 21st, 2019 1. Sanwo-Olu Charges Nigerians On National Unity Speaking at the 2019 International Day for Tolerance, held in Ikeja, Lagos, Southwest Nigeria on Tuesday, Sanwo-Olu charged stakeholders to rub minds together on some deeper ramification of national unity, saying that Nigerians … Read more
The Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption, PACAC, has endorsed the acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ibrahim Magu said that there is the need for President Muhammadu Buhari to reappoint him as the substantive Chairman of the Commission. Read Also: Okowa Endorses 9 Colleges And Other Infrastructures The endorsement was made … Read more
The Delta State Government has approved nine new technical colleges for Asaba, Obiaruku, Uvwie, Ika North East and others as first phase of the 19 of such institutions promised the councils without their presence by Governor Ifeanyi Okowa prior to this year’s general elections. There were other five approvals, including the upgrade of the Directorate … Read more
Cross River State governor, Sir Ben Ayade has emerged the Champion Newspaper Governor of the Year for 2019. The choice of Ayade as Governor of the year was contained in a letter signed by the newspaper’s Managing Director and Editor in chief, Mrs Nwadiuto Iheakanwa. While justifying the choice of the governor for the award, … Read more
The special representative of the European Union to West Africa and the Lake Chad Basin Commission and the United Nations have called in the Chief of Army Staff Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai, to curb the spreading the deadly sect Boko Haram. The UN Special Representative for West Africa and the Sahel, Mohamed Ibn Chambas, and … Read more
A 40-year- old man, Kabiru Abdullahi, has been remanded in prison by Magistrates’ Court in Gombe after he pleaded guilty to sodomising his neighbour’s 14-year-old son. According to News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, Chief Magistrate Babayo Usamatu, ordered that the suspect be remanded in a correctional facility, pending sentencing after pleading guilty and begged the … Read more
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Benin Zonal office, has secured the convictions of Six (6) internet fraudsters before Justice Emeke Nwite of the Federal High Court sitting in Warri, Delta State. Read Also: Breaking: NURTW, RTEAN Clash In Lagos The convicts are Ufuoma Miracle ( a.k.a Roland Gobalin), Ofomola Omovigho ( a.k.a Doctor), … Read more
The authority of the Nigerian Custom Service has revealed that its personnel uncovered fake currency notes worth N2.5m at Ihunbo security checkpoint along with Idiroko border town in Ogun State. The Custom Service also revealed that 160 smuggled kegs of patrol and 40 drums of ethanol were also intercepted by the Ogun Area 1 Command. … Read more
The Deputy Chief Whip of the Senate, Senator Aliyu Sabi Abdullahi, has raised the alarm that Nigeria was under attack by some element who hide under the guise of freedom of speech. The senator cautioned that these people needed to be checked otherwise the country would have herself to be blamed. Abdullahi who sponsored the … Read more
President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday expressed heartfelt condolences with former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, on the demise of his close aide, Umar Pariya. The President lamented that his death was shocking and prayed to God to give Abubakar the fortitude to bear the irreparable loss. He said, “I received the news of the death of … Read more
The Nigerian Police Force will arraign 57 persons for alleged homosexuality before Justice Rilwan Aikawa of the Federal High Court, Ikoyi, Lagos on November 22, 2019, by 10:00 am prompt. Lack of space had stalled the planned arraignment at the last adjourned date but the issue had been resolved and the venue will be the … Read more
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo, on Tuesday said not even the fear of death could stop him from raising his voice whenever there is a need to do so as an elder statesman in Nigeria and Africa as a whole. Obasanjo disclosed this at a two-day interactive session of the Presidential Youth Mentorship Retreat, held at … Read more
Lagos State Emergency Management Agency, (LASEMA) early Wednesday morning, averted yet another disaster when it recovered an oil tanker laden with 44,000 litres of Aviation fuel (Jet A1) which involved in a lone accident on the Otedola Bridge inward Berger, along Lagos-Ibadan Expressway. In the operation, LASEMA team’s preliminary investigations revealed that the fully loaded … Read more