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A Lagos businessman Babatunde Saka and his company Ofly Global Resources Limited, in a suit filed before a Lagos high Court  south west Nigeria, are urging the court to compel Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) to investigate a staff of Lagos University Teaching Hospital, (LUTH) Saheed Ayinla Ogundare who trade under the name and style of Seadrof Hotels and Suites operating from Block 2, Flat 5, LUTH staff quarters, Idi Araba Mushin, Lagos, for alleged diversion of funds belonging to the teaching hospital. Joined as co-defendants in the ensuing legal hostility are LUTH, EFCC, a Lagos businessman Kolawole Bankole…

Resignation letters from hundreds of officers in the aftermath of the #EndSARS protests have allegedly been rejected by the Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Adamu. A senior officers said that hundreds of policemen were ready to leave after their humiliation and burning of stations. “There is no amount of talk that will assuage the anger of policemen. We are very angry. Many of my colleagues tendered their resignation, but they are not accepting it. The morale is terribly low. Our officers were dehumanised. Some were killed. Many of us don’t have offices anymore. Nigerians should ask us to go if…

Governor Willie Obiano of Anambra state has shut schools, markets and other private establishments to honour the first President of Nigeria, late Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe. Obiano first declared a public holiday for Zik in 2019. He wrote to President Muhammadu Buhari to also declare every November 16 as public holidays for Zik. Obiano said the government’s failure so far to declare Zik’s birthday as a national holiday has become a national and international scandal. Commissioner for Information and Public Enlightenment, C-Don Adinuba, who spoke for the governor, said all government offices, except those which provide essential services, would not open,…

Inspector-General of Police (IGP) Mohammed Adamu at the weekend visited police stations across Osun State. The visits were meant for assessment of the losses and the damage the police suffered during the #EndSARS protests that were hijacked by hoodlums and became violent. A statement by the police command’s spokesman, Mrs. Yemisi Opalola, reads: “The Osun State Police Command wishes to intimate the general public, especially the good people of the state, that the panels of enquiry set up by IGP Adamu to investigate the immediate and remote causes of the violence that engulfed some parts of the country in recent…

Donald Trump has insisted he is not conceding the US election, despite seemingly acknowledging for the first time that Democrat Joe Biden won. “He won because the Election was Rigged,” the Republican president wrote on Twitter, repeating unsubstantiated claims of election fraud. About an hour later he said he was not conceding the 3 November vote. He has launched a slew of lawsuits in key states, but has not provided any evidence to back his claims of fraud. All the lawsuits have so far been unsuccessful. On Friday, election officials said the vote was the “most secure in American history”…

A human rights lawyer, Ebikebuna Aluzu, has sued the Bayelsa State House of Assembly over the state’s debt profile. The plaintiff is praying the House to release information concerning the report of the state’s Auditor-General on the accounts for the year ended December 31, 2012 to December 31, 2019. The matter has been adjourned till December 21 for further mention. The development follows last Thursday’s approval by the Assembly for Governor Douye Diri to secure another N17 billion loan from multiple sources to fund his administration’s policies and programmes. INEC postpones bye-elections in Imo, Lagos, Bayelsa, others The House of…

Conference of Igbo Youth Professionals Worldwide has called on the United Kingdom (UK) to revoke the citizenship of leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) Nnamdi Kanu. The group urged UK and Israel to restrain Kanu from taking advantage of his foreign citizenship to incite violence in Nigeria. It recalled that ‘IPOB is a terrorist organisation in the eyes of the law as declared by an Abuja Federal High Court’. A statement yesterday by the President-General, Maduabuchi Nwodo, urged Ndigbo across the globe to demonstrate courage by denouncing Kanu, IPOB, its members and all that the group stands…

Governor David Umahi of Ebonyi State is set to join the All Progressives Congress (APC) this week, some sources have said. A source said the governor confirmed his defection during a meeting with stakeholders in his Uburu Ohaozara Local Government Area country home on Sunday. The meeting was attended by bigwigs including the lawmaker representing Ezra South/Ikwo federal constituency Chinedu Ogah, Chairman of the Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission Elias Mbam,  State Chairman Senator Julius Ucha, Nwachukwu Eze and Senator Anthony Agbo, among others. Minister of Science and Technology Ogbonnaya Onu did not attend the meeting. APC youths okay…

MOMAS Electricity Meters Manufacturing Company (MEMMCOL) is set to train over 300 unemployed youths on meter installation to complement the Presidential Mass Metering Initiative. MEMMCOL Chairman, Kola Balogun, an engineer, told reporters that the initiative was aimed at developing the country’s manpower capability as part of its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). He said the free metering installation training is for unemployed youths selected from the six geo-political zones. According to him, over 15 governors have indicated an interest in sending youths to MOMAS factory for the training. He said that the training will begin at the MOMAS Metering School at…

A video making rounds online captured moment an unidentified married woman got glued to her lover while having sexual intercourse. Eyewitnesses linked the incident to “Magun” and it was gathered that the incident occurred in Ogun state. The couple were seen in the viral video crying and begging to regain their freedom from the charm. Court dissolves 11-year marriage over sex starvation Magun which in Yoruba tribe means “Do not climb”, is a dreadful and deadly charm usually employed by offended husbands to punish adulterous men having illicit sexual affairs with their wives.