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An Ikeja High Court on Wednesday sentenced a 33-year-old motorcyclist, Michael Ahmed to life imprisonment for raping his passenger. The survivor was 12-year-old while the convict was 24-year-old at the time he committed the offences in 2013. Justice Hakeem Oshodi, in his judgement, said that the prosecution had succeeded in proving the case against the defendant beyond reasonable doubts. “The evidence of the victim is concise and clear while the defendant’s evidence is distorted before the court. He tried to distort the facts in the timing of the incident, how he got to the police station and the name he…

A three-man panel of the Court of Appeal, Lagos Division, led by Justice Peter O. Affem, on Wednesday, April 13, 2022, upheld the appeal of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, and dismissed the ruling of a Federal High Court in Lagos in the case involving a former Executive Director, Projects, Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, Tuoyo Omatsuli, over an alleged case of money laundering to the tune of Three Billion, Six Hundred and Forty-five Million Naira (N 3, 645, 000,000). The judgment delivered by Justice Festus Obande Ogbuinya held that the ruling of the lower court dated November…

Nigeria’s electoral umpire, INEC, has declared 42 per cent of new voters registration invalid just as it unveiled new Permanent Voters Cards (PVCs) for distribution across the country. The commission, through its National Chairman, Mahmood Yakubu, on Wednesday, said a total of 1,854,859 PVCs will be ready for collection by direct owners in the 36 states and FCT after the Easter holiday. Since the commencement of its Continuous Voters Registration (CVR) on June 28, 2021, millions of Nigerians have completed the processes physically and online ahead of 2023 General Elections. Of these figures spread across four quarters, Mr Yakubu said…

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…