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The Lagos State High Court sitting in Ikeja has sentenced cashier, Tunde Abdulramon, to five years’ imprisonment for his employer’s N64,420,900 to marry a new wife and also for opening the same kind of his employer’s business for his new wife. Justice Raliat Adebiyi who handed down the sentence also ordered the convict to make restitution by returning all the properties he bought while in his employer’s establishment and also the money that he stole. The convict was arraigned on August 19, 2013, on 11 counts which bordered on stealing and fraudulent false accounting, preferred against him by the Economic…

A journalist at HumAngle Nigeria, Muhammed Akinyemi, has emerged as the best West African journalist of the year in the seventh edition of the West African Media Excellence Awards (WAMECA). Mr Akinyemi, one of the 17 journalists earlier shortlisted for the regional awards, clinched the overall best at an award ceremony in Accra, Ghana, on Saturday night. The previous 2022 edition of WAMECA was won by Tessy Igomu, head of investigations at Punch Newspapers in Nigeria. The organisers of the awards, Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA), said 855 entries were received from journalists in 15 West African countries for…

The Executive Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Mr. Ola Olukoyede, has said that anti-corruption fights will now be based on initiatives and modalities capable of stimulating economic growth and development in the overall interests of Nigerians, saying that the era of winding down businesses by way of investigation is gone as the commission will apply mix-fund rules that separate proceeds of crimes from legitimate money to allow businesses to grow. Olukoyede spoke in Lagos on Tuesday while addressing officers and men of the Lagos Zonal Command of the EFCC. He said, “There is need to redirect…

A barrister has been suspended for professional misconduct after he was found to have pursued a romantic interest in a defendant he was prosecuting. Drew St’Clair, called to the Bar by Middle Temple in July 2001, was suspended from practice for 26 months after the Bar Tribunals and Adjudication Service found he ‘violated a clear professional boundary’. The disciplinary tribunal found St’Clair abused his position by using relevant personal contact information he had been given while prosecuting a case on behalf of the Crown Prosecution Service to pursue his romantic interest in the defendant. He had met the individual at…

The Judiciary Staff Union of Nigeria (JUSUN) has suspended its planned strike scheduled to commence on Monday, November 13th. This was contained in a communique issued by JUSUN on Saturday, November 11th after a marathon meeting with the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN) at the Supreme Court complex in Abuja. JUSUN was set to embark on an indefinite nationwide strike over the failure of government to implement the N35,000 minimum wage and 40% peculiar allowance for judiciary workers However, after extensive deliberations centred on the issues, JUSUN directed its members to call off the strike and be at their duty…

Nobel laureate Professor Wole Soyinka said technology is creating new generations of illiterates in Nigerian society. Soyinka stated this at the CANEX Live Theatre closing ceremony of the 3rd Intra-African Trade Fair, IATF 2023, in Cairo on Friday. The fair was convened by the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank), in collaboration with the African Union and AfCFTA. The Nobel laureate said, “Simultaneously, it’s a very large subject, and we can go on for the next seminars over the next few weeks over this issue. I want us to understand that, on the other hand, there’s a new culture taking place about…

Justice James Omotosho of a Federal High Court, Abuja, yesterday, declared as unconstitutional, null and of no consequences, some sections of the Tax Appeal Tribunal (Procedure) Rules ( 2021), the Federal High Court of Nigeria (Federal Inland Revenue Service) Practice Directions (2021), and the Federal High Court of Nigeria (Tax Appeals) Rules (2022). Justice Omotosho, in a judgment declared the said sections unconstitutional on the grounds that they constrained the constitutionally provided right of appeal. A Senior Advocate of Nigeria and former President of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Joseph Daudu, had dragged the federal government to court to challenge…

A non-governmental organisation has petitioned the National Judicial Council (NJC) against the failure of the Grand Khadi of the FCT Sharia Court, Ibrahim Rufai Imam, to retire aftet being due. In the petition dated October 30, 2023 and signed by Onoja Johnson Baba of the Network Against Corruption and Trafficking accused Imam of overstaying his time in public service and a breach of Chapter 12 Rule 120243 of the Revised Federal Government Public Service Rules 2021 (PSR). The NGO alleged that Khadi Imam ought to have retired from office just as Hon. Justice Tukur Argungu, the Grand Khadi of Kebbi…

The National Industrial Court (NIC) has issued a restraining order against the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Trade Union Congress (TUC), and their affiliates, preventing them from initiating any form of strike or industrial action. The two major labour unions have been directed to halt their nationwide strike scheduled to begin on November 14, 2023. Justice Benedict Bakwaph Kanyip, the President of the Court, issued the restraining order following an ex-parte application brought before the court by the Federal Government of Nigeria, the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) and the Minister of Justice. Justice Kanyip invoked Sections 17 and 19…

The Director General of the National Youths Service Corps (NYSC), Brigadier General Yusha’u Ahmed has told corps members deployed to Borno state that they should not be worried because their safety is guaranteed Brig-Gen. Ahmed said this during a swearing-in ceremony of the 2023 Batch C Stream 1. NYSC Orientation Course in Maiduguri on Tuesday. He noted that Borno state is one of the safest states in the country owing to the high presence of military and paramilitary personnel in all parts of the state. According to NYSC DG, ”When we returned to the orientation course here…