The National Assembly Joint Committee on Ethics, Privileges and Public Petitions on Tuesday asked anti-graft agencies to probe a contractor who abandoned a project since 2015 after collecting N1.5bn mobilisation fee. The contractor was said to have abandoned the construction of the headquarters of the Code of Conduct Bureau in …
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A judge of the Federal High Court, Akure, Justice Abdul Dogo, has been kidnapped. Justice Dogo was abducted on Tuesday by unknown gunmen while he was returning to Akure from Abuja. The Nation learned that the kidnappers have made contact and demanded N50 million to release their abductee. It was …
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A Federal High Court in Lagos has fixed November 5 for hearing in a suit filed by a Nigerian musician, Olumuyiwa Danladi a.k.a Danny Young, against a fellow musician, Tiwatope Savage, over alleged copyright infringement. In the suit, labelled FHC/L/CS/230/2019 and pending before Justice Mohammed Liman, Young is claiming N205 …
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The Nigerian Citizens Association in South Africa has condemned fresh attacks on Nigerian-owned businesses located in Witbank Mpumalamga in South Africa, saying it is worrisome. The President of NICASA, Mr Ben Okoli, who made this known in a telephone interview with News Agency of Nigeria on Wednesday, described the attack as a …
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South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on Monday condemned weekend violence in Johannesburg that claimed two lives after security forces clashed with looters involved in fresh xenophobic attacks. At least ten people have been killed since the start of the month in a surge in attacks targeting foreign-owned businesses in and …
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A Ghanaian man residing in New Jersey, Rubbin Sarpong, is behind bars after United States authorities say he scammed 30 women of over $2.1m by posing as a “sweet message sending” soldier online. Rubbin Sarpong, a 35-year-old Ghanaian citizen with US residency, was recently arrested for swindling women on sites …
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Busola Dakolo has told a High Court of the Federal Capital Territory in Abuja that the rape allegedly committed against her by the founder and Senior Pastor of Commonwealth of Zion Assembly, Biodun Fatoyinbo, has adversely affected her marital sex life. She, therefore, demanded “a personal letter of apology” from …
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As Nigeria goes on appeal to set aside the huge cash awarded by a British commercial and arbitration court to P&ID, an offshore company over a botched gas supply contract, indications emerged, weekend, that the government might have written off the claimant as a non-existent enterprise. The government is said …
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A former governor of Abia State, Orji Uzor Kalu, has sold the entire issue shared capital of his banking group, First International Banking (FIB) Group Limited, The Gambia, PREMIUM TIMES can report today. The transaction, which has never been made public, was concluded between 2015 and 2016, documents seen by …
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Hamisu Wadume, a suspected kidnap lord in Taraba State, has been re-arrested, according to official sources. Police spokesperson, Frank Mba, said in a statement that Wadume was arrested on August 19 in Layin Mai Allo Hotoro, Kano State. The official statement came hours after PREMIUM TIMES broke the news that …
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