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UNICAL Undergraduate Bags Jail Term For Internet Fraud
An undergraduate from the University of Calabar, Peter Againpriye, has been sentenced to three years in prison for internet fraud by a Federal High Court in Port Harcourt, Rivers State. The EFCC, in a statement by its spokesman, Wilson Uwujaren, on Tuesday, listed the charges as impersonation, obtaining money by false pretence and possession of fraudulent documents. The convict, who pleaded guilty...
Kwara PDP Secretary Resigns
The Kwara State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has received the resignation letter of its State Secretary, Abdulrazaq Lawal. The State Publicity Secretary of the Party, Prince Tunji Moronfoye, said in a statement in Ilorin on Tuesday that Alhaji Lawal, in a letter addressed to the state party chairman and made public, resigned his position as the state...
Some Pensioners Receive N3,000 In Zamfara – NUP Chairman
The chairman of Nigeria Union of Pensioners, NUP, Zamfara State, Alhaji Hassan Mohammed has lamented that many pensioners in the State are still receiving N3,000 per month as pension. He wondered how a pensioner with a wife and children would cope with N3,000 per month, noting that the State pensioners have been subjected to starvation. Mohammed said that since the creation...
Cross River Assembly To Enact Severe Anti-Kidnap Law
Speaker of Cross River State House of Assembly, Elvert Ayambem has disclosed that the House will soon enact a state law that will mete out severe punishment to kidnappers. He spoke to the leadership of the Nigerian Medical Association, NMA, when they called on him to seek the Assembly’s support to rescue their colleague, Prof Ekanem Ephraim of the University...
Appeal Court Affirms Judgement Banning FRSC From State Roads
The Federal Court of Appeal in Asaba, Delta State, upheld the Federal High Court's decision barring the Federal Road Safety Corps, FRSC, from operating on state and municipal highways in Nigeria. Remember that in 2019, a Federal High Court sitting in Warri ordered that the FRSC may only function on federal roadways. It ruled that the Corps had no legal authority...
Fuel Hike: NLC Rejects Tinubu Govt’s N8,000 Per Household Palliative
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has rejected the Federal Government's proposed N500 billion palliatives to mitigate the impact of the elimination of gasoline subsidies. NLC President Joe Ajaero announced this in a statement on Tuesday. The National Assembly approved an N500 billion palliatives request, which will provide N8,000 to 12 million households. “There is no other way to explain the proposal to...
Fuel Subsidy Removal: Raise Palliative From N8,000 To N30,000, Uche Nwosu Begs Tinubu
Former Chief of Staff to the Imo State Governor and President Ugwumba Leadership Center for Africa, Uche Nwosu has asked President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to increase the subsidy palliatives for 12 million households from N8,000 to N30,000. Nwosu made the appeal while fielding questions from newsmen during a telephone chat in Abuja, where he appealed to Tinubu to ensure there...
Court Sacks Taraba PDP Chairman
The High Court of Justice of Taraba has removed the Chairman of the People’s Democratic Party, (PDP), Taraba State chapter, Abubakar Bawa from office, describing his occupation of the office as “invalid, unconstitutional, null and void”. The court also ordered the reinstatement of Alhaji Inuwa Bakari as acting chairman of the party. The case with suit number: TRSJ/62/2023, had Ibrahim Abdullahi,...
POS Operator Attempts Suicide Over N1.7m Debt
In a distressing incident in Yola, the capital of Adamawa State, a POS operator named Umar Usman resorted to consuming a locally made insecticide on Monday in an apparent suicide attempt due to a debt amounting to N1.7 million. Umar, hailing from Yola South LGA, ingested the toxic substance known as Otapiapia while appearing in court at the Upper Area Court I...
N70 billion Was Allocated For Purchase Of Furniture, Repairs Not Palliatives. No Lawmaker Is Receiving Cash — Sen. Yemi Adaramodu.
In the face of criticism, Senator Yemi Adaramodu, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Media and Public Affairs, stated that no member of the National Assembly will receive any money from the N70 billion budgeted to sustain their working conditions. In a statement issued Wednesday, he stated that the amount will be used to purchase furnishings and renovate lawmakers' offices....
