President Bola Tinubu will travel to Nairobi, Kenya, on Saturday, July 15, 2023, to participate in the fifth mid-year coordination meeting (5thMYCM) of the African Union (AU), the regional economic communities (RECs), the regional mechanisms (RMs), and the AU member states. Tinubu, however, was elected as chairman of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), on July 9, 2023. In a statement, Dele Alake, who is the special adviser to the president on special duties, communications and strategy, said as ECOWAS chairman, Tinubu will join heads of state and government, foreign ministers of the AU member-states, and high-level dignitaries…
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A Federal High Court in Lagos on Tuesday, July 25, 2023, granted bail to the suspended governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele in the sum of N20 million. Emefiele was arraigned on two counts of illegal possession of firearm and ammunition before Justice Nicholas Oweibo, after over six weeks since his arrest and detention by the Department of State Services (DSS). Oweibo, said the charges against Emefiele are bailable. Emefiele appearing before the judge pleaded not guilty to the charges brought against him by the Federal Government (FG). After the plea, Joseph Daudu, a Senior Advocate…
A United States (US) social media influencer, Tierra Young Allen, has been detained in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), for more than two months after being charged for screaming. She is now facing jail time after the 29-year-old in April 2023, got into an altercation with a rental company after she and a friend had been involved in an accident with a vehicle from the company. Young had returned to the company to pick up some of her properties but was slammed with a bill she never expected which will then led to an argument and eventually made her…
A Federal High Court in Abuja on Thursday, July 20, 2023, ordered the Department of State Services (DSS) to grant Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), access to doctors of his choice. Justice Binta Nyako in a judgement delivered, dismissed the objections raised by the DSS for lacking merit. In the suit marked FHC/ABJ/CS/ 2341/2022, Kanu had requested the court for leave to apply for an order of mandamus to compel the DSS to allow him access to his medical doctors, among others. The counsel to the DSS, A. M. Danlami, had challenged the jurisdiction…
The Federal High Court sitting in Damaturu, Yobe State capital, has ordered a former Minister of Science and Technology, Abdul Bulama, and four others to enter their defence in the N450 million fraud charge preferred against them by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). Justice Fadima Aminu ruling on a no-case submission by the defendants, held that based on the testimonies of the witnesses and exhibits tendered before the court, the prosecution had established a prima facie case against the defendant to warrant them to enter their defence. The court thereafter adjourned till October 19 and 20, 2023, for…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibadan Zonal Command, Oyo state, has re-arrested an ex-cybercrime convict, Adeniran Tijesunimi, and 54 others for internet fraud and related criminal activities. Tijesunimi was convicted and sentenced by Justice Uche Agomoh of the Federal High Court in Ibadan, on February 15, 2022, to seven months imprisonment without an option of fine for his involvement in cybercrime. He was again rearrested alongside others at Oyo town on Thursday, July 13, 2023, following verified intelligence regarding their internet fraud activities. The suspects were Ademola Adeniyi; Olayinwola Rokeeb; Moses Biola; Adewale Adeyemi; Olowuoyin Atanda; Mojeeb Olamilekan;…
Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), have intercepted over 64,000 kilogrammes of consignments of nitrous oxide, otherwise known as laughing gas at the Apapa seaport in Lagos and in Imo State. This is coming barely 24 hours after the Chairman/Chief Executive Officer of the agency, Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (retd) directed all commands and formations of the agency to begin an immediate clampdown on the illegal sale and use of the gaseous substance following its abuse by people who use it for recreational purposes. Following credible intelligence, NDLEA operatives at the Apapa seaport on Wednesday, July 12,…
A High Court in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, has voided the arrest and detention of the suspended Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor, Godwin Emefiele, by the Department of State Services (DSS). Justice Bello Kawu while delivering judgment on Friday, July 14, 2023, held that the arrest, detention, and interrogation of Emefiele, is in violation of the subsisting judgment and orders of Justice M. A. Hassan. Emefiele through his Counsel, Peter Abang, had asked the court to set aside and nullify the arrest and detention of the Applicant for being illegal and a nullity in view of the subsisting…
A Federal High Court in Abuja has convicted and sentenced a former Director of Echo Logistics, Abdulrahman Aliyu, to five years imprisonment. Justice F.E. Messiri while delivering the judgement sentenced Aliyu for his involvement in a N250 million fraud. Spokesperson for the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Wilson Uwujaren in a recent statement in Abuja said the former director was jailed on Wednesday, June 14, 2023, on a three-count charge bordering on criminal breach of trust, forgery and cheating to the tune of N250 million. One of the counts read; “That you, Abdulrahman Aliyu, sometime between July 2018 to…
The Department of State Services (DSS) has said the suspended Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele had been charged to court. An Abuja High Court had on Thursday, July 13, 2023, ordered the DSS to either release Emefiele or charge him to court. In response, the DSS in a statement by its spokesperson, Peter Afunanya, said the service had in 2022 applied for a court order to detain Emefiele but noted that he got another order stopping the DSS from arresting him. Afunanya explained that the suspended CBN governor was arrested for criminal infractions for which…