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The Supreme Court of Nigeria, on Wednesday, in Abuja, affirmed the six years imprisonment imposed on a former Federal Director of Pensions (FDP,) Mr John Yakubu Yusuf and also ordered him to refund N22.9b to government covers. The N22.9b huge sum was part of the police pension fund he admitted before a High Court of the Federal Capital Territory FCT to have been misappropriated. Justice Tijjani Abubakar in a judgment in an appeal filed by Yusuf, upheld the decision of the Court of Appeal which in 2018 sent him to six years imprisonment, in addition to the refund of the…

The coroner’s inquest into the death of Sylvester Oromoni has suffered a setback. The sitting had been adjourned until April 11 and 12 for some witnesses to testify. But on Tuesday, a lawyer for the family, Taiwo Olawanle, told PREMIUM TIMES that the sittings were stalled because the witnesses were not available. At the last sitting, a toxicologist, Benedict Agbo, told the coroner that he didn’t get any request to test the blackish substance found in the intestine of late Sylvester Oromoni (Jnr). A second autopsy conducted on the deceased by a pathologist at the Lagos State Teaching University Hospital…

The new National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) bill if signed into law by President Muhammadu Buhari, will boost the agency’s performance and address its longstanding funding problems, NHRC’s executive secretary, Tony Ojukwu, has said. “The signing of the bill will help to shore up Nigeria’s human rights records, given that the commission would do more to deliver on its statutory mandate,” a statement issued on Monday by the commission quoted Mr Ojukwu as saying. Mr Ojukwu added that the bill would address the issue of insufficient powers and funding that had “hampered the commission’s effective operation and functioning since its…

Telecom firm, MTN, has received final approval from Nigerian regulators to run a payment service bank, the wireless carrier said in a regulatory filing on Monday. “The date of commencement will be communicated to the CBN (Central Bank of Nigeria) in accordance with its requirements,” the telco heavyweight said of the bank to be known as MoMo Payment Service Bank Limited in a note to the Nigerian Exchange. The approval, the fruit of well over two years of waiting for the permit, gives the local unit of Johannesburg-headquartered MTN Group Limited the leave to operate virtually all the services offered…

BELOW IS THE RECORDED SPEECH BY VICE PRESIDENT YEMI OSINBAJO AS HE DECLARED HIS INTENTION TO RUN FOR PRESIDENT IN THE 2023 ELECTIONS. Dear Nigerians, for the past seven years, I have served as Vice President under a true Nigerian patriot, a servant of the nation in war and peace, and a man of integrity, President Muhammadu Buhari. We have, together, worked through some of the most difficult times in the history of our nation, but we have remained focused on securing the country, providing infrastructure and growing our economy. As stipulated by the Nigerian Constitution, our tenure will end…

human rights lawyer, Femi Falana (SAN) has alleged that some officials of the Nigerian Correctional Service (NCS) allow criminals to escape court verdicts by getting young men who will serve jail terms for criminals. Speaking on Thursday at a media session titled, “Forget the past, forfeit the future: A nation seceding from humanity”, Falana said the country is at war and the level of criminality is on the rise. He noted that solving the country’s security challenges goes beyond hiring mercenaries. Falana revealed that criminals that have been convicted of a crime are allowed to walk freely on the streets…

Are you familiar with the unpopular saying, “Lagos is not for the weak.”? To survive in Lagos, you have to be bold, ambitious, and most importantly, street-smart. Only when you possess these characteristics can you survive in a city where random strangers yell at you for no reason, and everyone walks as though they are being pursued. While being street-smart can be applicable in every part of the world, making good use of it in Lagos would save you the chance of shedding tears, especially when you go to a famous market called Computer Village. Computer Village is a market…

An Ondo State High Court Sitting in Akure, on Friday, restrained the state government from demolishing structures at the state Trade Fair Complex situated along Igbatoro road, in the state capital. This is just as the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the state government traded words over the pool landed demolition of the complex. In a suit filed by the Counsel to the claimants, Olumide Ogidan, on behalf of the occupants who prayed for an interim injunction to forestall further demolition of the structures at the complex. Ogidan prayed the court to restrain the defendants from going on with the…

The Federal High Court in Abuja, on Friday, validated last year’s arrest and repatriation of the leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, from Kenya by the Nigerian government. The judge, Binta Nyako, dismissed Mr Kanu’s claim that the federal government illegally repatriated him from Kenya to Nigeria without following a formal extradition procedure. In her ruling, Mrs Nyako held that his repatriation to Nigeria could not be said to be illegal when there was a “surviving bench warrant” for the IPOB leader’s arrest. The judge had, in March 2019, ordered Mr Kanu’s arrest after adjudging him…

The Ghanaian government has banned spending and transaction of businesses in foreign currencies in the country. The Central Bank of Ghana, which disclosed this in a statement Thursday, warned citizens and companies to stop transacting business, pricing goods and services and advertising in foreign currencies. According to the country’s apex bank, it is illegal for individuals, companies, institutions, and others to engage in foreign exchange business without an appropriate licence from the regulator. “Engaging in foreign exchange business without a licence issued by Bank of Ghana; or pricing, advertising, receipting or making payments for goods and services in foreign currency…