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The Kano State High Court in Kano has convicted two civil servants, Helen Odey and Zainab Musa, for fraudulently securing employment through impersonation and forgery. The Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission (ICPC) disclosed in a statement on Monday that the court convicted the two defendants on three charges of conspiracy, impersonation and making false statements to a public officer. The judge, Dije Aboki, sentenced Ms Odey to two years’ imprisonment, and Ms Musa to six months’ jail term, according to the statement by ICPC’s spokesperson, Azuka Ogugwa. The commission accused them of impersonating Hussienat Ahmed to secure employment with the Kano…

A former Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Michael Aondoakaa, has approached the Federal High Court in Abuja for a review of an earlier judgement which barred him from occupying public office in Nigeria. Mr Aondoakaa, who was the AGF between 2007 and February 2010 during the late Umar Yar’Adua administration, argued in his fresh suit that the judgement barring him from public office was fraudulently obtained. The Calabar division of the court in Cross River State, had in 2010, declared Mr Aondoakaa, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), unfit to hold public office on account of his…

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has announced plans to penalise Deposit Money Banks (DMBs) over the inclusion of mutilated notes in their deposits with the apex bank. The CBN made this known at the weekend in a circular signed by Ahmed Umar, director of the currency operations department at the bank. Mr Umar said the new directive took effect from April 1. The bank expressed worry over the increase in the number of composed banknotes in circulation. Composed banknotes are mutilated currency notes that consist of several parts of different banknotes of the same denomination. The parts of such…

Kidnappers in Ogun State have freed a police officer, Kamarudeen Bello, after collecting N700,000 ransom, PREMIUM TIMES has learnt. The armed men abducted Mr Bello, a police inspector, around 8 p.m. last Sunday at a mosque in Soyoye, Rounder, in Abeokuta north local government area of the state. The kidnappers also took away two worshippers at the mosque. A police officer told PREMIUM TIMES that Mr Bello’s wife delivered a baby four days before her husband was kidnapped. “After he was abducted alongside two others, the kidnappers called to demand N5 million ransom for the release of each of the…

A new international travel guideline has been issued by the Presidential Steering Committee (PSC) on COVID-19, removing mandatory Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) testing for fully vaccinated visitors and stiff penalties for unvaccinated travellers violating the new rules. According to the ‘Provisional Travel Protocol for Travelers Arriving Nigeria’, issued on Sunday morning by the Chairman of the PSC and Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Mr Boss Mustapha, the new guideline, which takes effect from Monday, April 4, 2022, also prescribes sanctions for airlines that bring violators of the new rules. Mustapha said that the new guideline prescribed for…

The Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (FCCPC) has indicted Google for obstructing efforts aimed at tracing the owners of illegal online money lenders engaged in consumer rights violations in Nigeria. The Executive Vice Chairman/Chief Executive Officer, FCCPC, Mr Babtunde Irukera, made the allegation at a collaborative engagement with the media in Lagos. He said that Google has been uncooperative in the commission’s efforts to enforce the withdrawal of applications (Apps) being used by the money lenders from its Play Store, even when evidence of inappropriate use of the Apps has been established. Recall that FCCPC raided the offices of…

A man from west London who was convicted of inciting racial hatred for posting messages on social media encouraging violence in Nigeria has been jailed. The Met’s Counter Terrorism Command launched an investigation in March 2019 as a direct result of members of the public raising concerns to police about online social media posts which contained comments aimed at particular ethnic groups based in Nigeria. The posts were created by accounts under the name “Adeyinka Grandson” and were reported to police via the online reporting tool www.gov.uk/ACT. This material was assessed by specialist officers within the Met’s Counter Terrorism Internet Referral…

awards two hundred thousand (#200,000) naira against the appellants this is victory for democracy – Ebonyi Information Commissioner judicial system remains the last hope of the common man – APC The Appeal Court sitting in Enugu, Friday affirmed the ruling of the Ebonyi State High Court, which declared that Governor David Nweze Umahi and his Deputy, Dr. Kelechi Igwe, did not offend any provision of the constitution or the Electoral Act by defecting from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP to the All Progressives Congress, APC, in the State (Download Judgment Here). The Court held that there was no consequence under…

A Federal High Court in Lagos Thursday struck out a suit challenging the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN)’s Cashless Policy. Justice Akintayo Aluko struck out the suit on the grounds of incompetence, lack of proof and absence of jurisdiction. The suit, filed by a plaintiff, Victor Onyegbado, claimed that the policy was unconstitutional, null and void and of no effect to the extent that it subjected him to disabilities and/or restrictions to which citizens of Nigeria of other communities are not made subject. He was opposed by the CBN through its team of counsel led by Prof. Fabian Ajogwu (SAN),…

The Airline Operators of Nigeria (AON) has threatened to sue the Federal Government over continued multiple entries granted to foreign airlines into various international airports in the country. The President of AON, Yunusa Abdulmunaf, made this known during its First Quarter Breakfast Business Meeting in Lagos on Thursday. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the event was organised by the Aviation Round Table (ART) with the theme: ‘Economic Implications of Multiple Entry Points by Foreign Airlines Into Nigeria.” NAN reports that the Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika, had said that although the multiple entries granted to foreign airlines…