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The President of Niger Republic, Mohamed Bazoum, has thanked President Muhammadu Buhari for the Kano-Katsina-Maradi railway. He said the project will integrate the economies of Nigeria and Niger. Mr Bazoum said this in Abuja Thursday during an official visit to his Nigerian counterpart. “On economic issues, we discussed the Kano-Katsina-Maradi railway project. And this project is an infrastructure that will integrate the economies, the economies of Nigeria and Niger,” he said. He spoke to journalists after his meeting with the Nigerian leader at the State House, Abuja. “So I’m here to thank President Buhari for his effort at ensuring that…

A Nigerian man has been sentenced to federal prison for federal fraud violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney Brit Featherston of the Eastern District of Texas. Sobanke Idris Sunday Adereti, 24, pleaded guilty on Oct. 25, 2021, to passport fraud and attempted bank fraud, and was sentenced to 33 months in federal prison today by U.S. District Judge Jeremy D. Kernodle. According to court documents, in March 2021, Adereti presented a false passport and a falsely procured certified check when trying to open a bank account in Flower Mound, Texas. The check was purchased by a…

The World Bank Group on Wednesday announced the suspension of SoftTech IT Solutions and Services Ltd. (SoftTech) for 50 months over corrupt allegations in the National Social Safety Nets Project. The Washington-based institution also announced a 60-month debarment of Isah Kantigi, the company’s managing director. According to the bank, the debarment make both Nigeria-born Mr Kantigi and SoftTech, an information technology solutions company based in Nigeria, ineligible to participate in projects and operations financed by the bank. The bank said its decisions are parts of settlement agreements under which the company and Mr Kantigi acknowledged their responsibility for the underlying…

Being acceptance speech by Chief Wole Olanipekun OFR, SAN,LL.D., D.LITT.,FCIArb,FNIALS, as Chairman, Body of Benchers, at the meeting of the Body of Benchers on 31st of March, 2022 1.0 PROTOCOL • The immediate past Chairman, Body of Benchers, Honourable Justice Olabode Rhodes-Vivour, CON, JSC (Rtd.), Life Bencher • Former Chairmen of the Body of Benchers • Life Benchers • Distinguished Benchers 2.0 PROLOGUE 2.1 Today is another day the Lord has made, and we rejoice in it. My stepping in as the 50th Chairman of the Body of Benchers this day is the Lord’s doing, and it is marvellous in…

A retired Lagos High Court judge, Justice Samuel Babajide Adebowale Candide-Johnson has filed a suit before a National Industrial Court of Nigeria (NICN) in Lagos, demanding his pension, gratuity, and other entitlements from Lagos State government, a year after his retirement. Joined as defendants in the suit are the governor, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu, Attorney General, Moyosore Onigbanjo SAN, Lagos State Judicial Service Commission, and the National Judicial Council (NJC). Gavel International investigations however revealed that Candide-Johnson is not the only affected judge. All judges that retired in 2021 are affected. None of them have received their entitlements from the State.…

Osun State High Court sitting in Osogbo on Wednesday dismissed a “no case submission” filed by the counsels to the Owner of Hilton Hotel, Abdulrahmon Adedoyin and seven others in the murder case of Timothy Adegoke, the NBA student of Obafemi Awolowo University, OAU, Ile-Ife with affirmation that, the defendants facing trial in the alleged killing have case to answer. At resume hearing of the case ,the prosecution counsel, M.O Omosun prayed the court to dismiss submission of counsels to defendants on a no case submission as prema facie had been established based on all evidences presented before the court.…

Justice Ahmed Mohammed of the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has discharged and acquitted a former Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Mr Andrew Yakubu. Yakubu was arraigned before Justice Ahmed Mohammed on March 16, 2017, on a six-count charge of fraud having admitted to owning over $9.8 million in cash found in a house that also belongs to him in Kaduna state. During the trial, the prosecution called six witnesses to prove its case against Yakubu, after which Defendant entered a no-case submission. Ruling on the application, the Court upheld the no-case submission on…

The Minister of Transportation, Mr Rotimi Amaechi, has asked Nigerians to contribute to the cost of treating those affected in Monday’s train attack. At least nine people were killed while many sustained injuries when bandits attacked a train heading for Kaduna from Abuja. Amaechi, who had visited the scene of the attack on Tuesday, said it would have been foiled if the procurement of the N3 billion high capacity rail track cameras and sensors was not blocked. He said the equipment would eliminate all blind spots on the train corridors across the country. Speaking when he visited the victims who…

The Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) has expressed sadness over the death of one of its members, Dr Chinelo Megafu Nwando, a member of the association, who died after sustaining gunshot injuries during the terrorists attack on the Abuja-Kaduna train on Monday. The NMA also expressed worries over situation in the country which is fast becoming a recurrent decimal, thus worsening the alarming effects of brain drain, which in many instances have been attributable to the worsening security situation in the country. In a statement by the NMA through Dr Aniekeme Uwah, the National Publicity Secretary of the association, the news…

There was a sharp disagreement yesterday between the  Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN and various non- governmental organisations over moves by the Senate to amend the Company and Allied Matters Act 2020. Both CAN and the stakeholders clashed with certain provisions  of the bill, just as the umbrella body of Christians in Nigeria  insisted that the amendments being sought in the CAMA was repressive and would infringe on the fundamental human rights of the groups’ promoters. According to the stakeholders, it is wrong to mandate the NGOs to submit their audit reports twice in a year. They spoke yesterday at…