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Lafarge has pleaded guilty to paying armed groups in order to ease the movement of its staff and goods within a war zone in Syria. The French cement company was fined charged $778 million as penalty after pleading guilty at a United States court in Brooklyn of conspiring to provide material support to the jihadist group ISIS and another terrorist organization as part of a deal with the U.S. justice department, CNN reports. The company had denied allegations that it paid $15.3 million to the Islamic State to retain a cement plant north of Syria at the dawn of the…

The Chinese government has opened secret police stations in Nigeria and in over 20 countries in Europe, the Americas, Asia and Africa in its effort to tackle the increasing criminal activities of its citizens abroad. This was contained in an investigative statement titled, ‘110 Overseas Chinese Transnational Policing Gone Wild.’ It was widely reported that the police stations are created to bring “down on all kinds of illegal and criminal activities involving overseas Chinese.” Lesotho and Tanzania are the two other African countries apart from Nigeria that have Chinese secret police stations to curb crimes among China citizens. The report…

There are indications that the fifth alteration to the 1999 Constitution may not see the light of the day as speakers of states’ Houses of Assembly have given conditions to act on the bills transmitted to them by the National Assembly. The demands of the speakers include bills seeking the establishment of state police and state judicial councils. Deputy Senate President, Ovie Omo-Agege, disclosed this while briefing newsmen on Tuesday on the state of the constitution review exercise at the National Assembly, Abuja. The federal lawmakers had in March voted on 68 bills aimed at amending the 1999 Constitution, after…

25-year-old Abimaje Shittu, a commercial tricycle operator in Lokoja has been arrested for impersonating an Inspector of Police. The suspect who hails from Egume in Dekina Local Government Area of Kogi State was caught with a falsified police identification card, which identified him as a Police Inspector. He was apprehended by the security personnel of the Kogi State Polytechnic, Lokoja on Saturday 15th October 2022, at the Main Campus of the institution. The Head of the Public Relations and Protocol Unit of Kogi State Polytechnic, Lokoja, Uredo Omale confirmed the incident and said the culprit has been handed to the…

An Abakaliki Magistrate Court, yesterday remanded a two-term member of the House of Representatives and the Labour Party senatorial candidate for Ebonyi South Zone in the 2023 election, Hon. Linus Okorie. Recall that Okorie was said to have been kidnapped on Sunday morning, while driving out of his Abakaliki residence, and was on Monday morning brought to the Headquarters of the Ebubeagu Security outfit. It was further gathered that the police allegedly went to the office of Ebubeagu in the Old Government House and took custody of him. He was arraigned for alleged offences bothering on false information, fraud, murder…

The Nigerian government has indicated that it would not release Nnamdi Kanu despite Thursday’s Court of Appeal judgement. Instead of releasing Mr Kanu as ordered by the court, the government says it is reviewing its legal options and could institute other charges against him. The government said it would consider its legal options after the Court of Appeal discharged Mr Kanu, the leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), of all pending charges. The Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF), Abubakar Malami, in the government’s first official reaction, said the federal government’s decision on the case would be announced…

The Academic Staff Union of University (ASUU) has suspended its eight-month-old industrial action conditionally, a member of the union’s National Executive Committee told Channels TV early Friday. The union decided to suspend the strike during a meeting of its leadership that started on Thursday night and lasted into the early hours of Friday. The meeting was called by the union to determine its next line of action after its state branches met over the Court of Appeal ruling last week. ASUU is expected to make a formal announcement about the suspended strike this morning. Prior to the meeting, the Court…

The Director General of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye, has alerted the public of the activities of some fraudsters whom she said, hacked into her social media accounts to dupe unsuspected members of the public. To this end, Adeyeye said she would no longer be using the social media accounts until further notice. The NAFDAC boss stated this in Abuja, Tuesday, on the sideline of a press conference, she addressed on some contaminated paediatric cough syrups circulating in the Gambia, which she feared could penetrate into Nigeria. She said, “The attention…

Despite several denials that trading under the African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA) have not started, findings by Shipping Position Daily have revealed that three African countries have actually commenced trading. The AfCFTA is projected to create a single market for goods and services in Africa and by 2030, the market size across the continent is expected to include 1.7 billion people with over $6.7 trillion of cumulative consumer and business spending—if all African countries join the agreement. However, Nigeria which is being touted by experts as the likely greatest beneficiary of the AfCFTA is still foot-dragging in meeting the…

The Court of Appeal in Abuja, on Thursday, quashed the terrorism charge the Federal Government preferred against the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu. It discharged and acquitted him of the seven-count charge pending against him before the Federal High Court in Abuja. The appellate court, in a decision by a three-man panel led by Justice Jummai Hanatu, said it was satisfied that FG flagrantly violated the law, when it forcefully rendered Kanu from Kenya to the country for the continuation of his trial. It held that such extra-ordinary rendition, without adherence to due process…