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Anita Ofili, the lady who was arrested on March 26 for allegedly stabbing her friend, Glory Okon, to death in her apartment at Greenville Estate, Ajah area of Lagos, has revealed that she waited for 10 years to have her pound of flesh. She further revealed that she committed the act because the deceased snatched her boyfriend about 10 years ago. Occupants of the building were alerted by a shout for help from Ofili’s one-room self-contain apartment at 1.20p.m., penultimate Sunday. They reportedly forced the door open, only to discover Ofili thrusting a kitchen knife into Okon’s neck. Unfortunately, the…

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has written the Central Criminal Court, Old Bailey, London pleading clemency for Senator Ike Ekweremadu and his wife Beatrice. Obasanjo, in a letter, addressed to the Chief Clerk of the court, urged it to consider the relationship between Nigeria and UK as well as the health of Ekweremadu, daughter to temper justice with tender mercy over the organ harvesting plot case. Obasanjo wrote in parts: “Mr Chief Clerk, I am very much aware of the current travails and conviction of Ike Ekweremadu and his wife in the United Kingdom resulting from their being charged with conspiring…

A court in Kano has given a man till Friday to kill his cockerel following a neighbour’s complaint that the constant crowing deprives him of sleep. Magistrate Halima Wali issued the order against Malam Yusuf on Tuesday, declaring the bird a nuisance to the neighbourhood. Yusuf told the court that he had bought the bird to celebrate Good Friday and asked to given given until the Christian holy day before killing it for a family feast. The judge granted the request but warned him to prevent the cockerel from roaming the area and disturbing residents. She also asked him to…

The Acting Auditor-General of the Federation (AuGF), Augustine Onwudili, has commended the President for signing the bill establishing the Chartered Institute of Forensics and Certified Fraud Investigators of Nigeria (CIFCFIN) into law. He said with this, Nigeria has taken a bold step towards eradicating corruption and financial crimes in the country. Onwudili, who stated this at the first-year general meeting of CIFCFIN in Abuja, declared: “Wherever there is fraud or wherever they are committing fraud all over the world, the first place they go to for auditing is the Auditor-General’s office and how can we as auditors unravel these frauds?…

Donald Trump was seen Tuesday leaving a New York court where he pleaded not guilty to 34 criminal counts stemming from hush-money paid to a porn star before the 2016 election. Trump was seen exiting the building and making his way to a waiting motorcade, just over two hours after arriving at the Manhattan court complex for the historic hearing. Meanwhile, the former US President on Tuesday pleaded not guilty inside a packed New York courtroom as he became the first American president to be arrested on criminal charges, which have already upended the 2024 White House campaign. With a…

Operatives of the Nigeria Police have arrested three lawyers in Port Harcourt while reportedly filing tribunal processes for the All Progressives Congress APC in Rivers State. The lawyers were said to be preparing petitions for the APC in Rivers State to officially file a legal proceeding against the conduct and results of the just concluded governorship election in the state. It was gathered that the three lawyers from the Tuduru Ede’s Chamber, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, were lodged in an hotel where they were working before police stormed them and picked them last night. Confirming the development, the Principal…

Distinguished colleagues, As we all know, the payment of Bar Practicing Fees as and when due ended yesterday 31st March, 2023. This however does not prevent anyone who failed to pay within time but still desires to make the payment to so do. We are aware that some of our colleagues did not receive the official BPF payment receipt due to either network challenges or technical glitches. Please note that the BPF receipt shall be made available to everyone who made payment. Therefore, if you are yet to receive your BPF receipt or you are a new wig and received…

Application for award of the coveted rank of Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) for the 2023 award cycle ends today. The Legal Practitioners Privileges Committee (LPPC) had early January announced commencement of the application process. In a public notice signed by its Secretary and Chief Registrar of the Supreme Court of Nigeria, Hajo Sarki Bello, the committee noted that “All applications together with their mandatory or supporting documents must be submitted online at www.lppconline.com before 12:00 noon on the 31st March, 2023 whilst the flash drives referred to in clause 25 above must be delivered to the LPPC Secretariat before…

The National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) has slammed a fine of N5 million on Channels TV for breaking the broadcasting code in an interview programme with Dr Datti Baba-Ahmed, Labour Party Vice Presidential candidate. The fine was revealed in a letter addressed to the Chief Executive Officer of the television station and dated March 27. The letter was exclusively obtained by the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Friday in Abuja. The letter, with the title: “Broadcast of an Inciting Interview, A Sanction”, was signed by Balarabe Ilelah, the commission’s Director-General. It read in part:” The NBC monitored the broadcast of…

After almost three weeks since Chief Timipre Sylva, Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, resigned from Muhammadu Buhari’s cabinet, the federal government yesterday officially made the resignation of the junior minister’s official. Senior government officials often resign from their jobs after being publicly announced by the administration. The reason why the minister’s resignation, who is now running for governor of Bayelsa state, was kept a top secret until yesterday, however, is unknown. Nevertheless, in an apparent last-minute effort to quell the uproar caused by the authorities’ failure to make the news, Bashir Ahmad, a Special Assistant to the President on…