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  The Ilorin Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has secured the conviction of four persons, including a 21-year-old Cinematographer, Abiodun Ayomide, for offences bordering on impersonation and internet fraud. Others are Bello Damola Lateef, Azeez Ibrahim Olarewaju and Aderoju Ridwan Kayode. Abiodun and Bello were prosecuted on separate charges before…

  The Court of Appeal in Abuja has upheld the removal of Dr. Bunu Alibe and Mr. Ayo Olojede as Directors of an indigenous oil company, Green Energy International Limited. In a judgment on Monday, a three-member panel of the appellate court was unanimous in setting aside an earlier judgment delivered on September 23, 2022…

  A suspected fraudster trading under the business name “Capital Plus Investment Services Ltd”, owned by Paul Demudia Eigbefoh, is reportedly on the run after allegedly defrauding a leading oil and gas company in the country to the tune of N67.5m last week. The affected firm has petitioned the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC)…

  The election of Mr. Ngozi Okolie of Labour Party as member representing Aniocha/Oshimili Constituency of Delta State in the House of Representatives was on Monday nullified by the National Assembly Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Asaba. In about 107-page judgement that lasted over five hours, the three-member tribunal headed by Justice A.Z. Mussa, disqualified…

  … applauds Gov Bello for love for education, Kogi students The Speaker of Kogi State House of Assembly, Rt Hon Aliyu Umar Yusuf has said the reason for giving speedy passage to the law establishing recently founded Kogi State University, Kabba was to right past wrongs suffered by one of the most educationally influential…

  The Technical Working Group, (TWG) has lamented on the absence of available data on people that has suffered from Sexual and Gender Based Violence in Kogi State. The Chairperson, TWG of Sexual and Gender Based Violence in Kogi State Mrs Modupe Stella-Maris Andi made this known on Tuesday at a meeting held in Lokoja….

  Kwara State Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq has disclosed that his administration would deploy more resources into making people cope with the removal of subsidy. Speaking at a stakeholders’ meeting in Ilorin, the state capital, AbdulRazaq said the policy was the lesser evil open to the Federal Government, adding that other options such as printing new…

  The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), in the February 25 presidential election, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has insisted that the declaration of Bola Tinubu as Nigeria’s president is unlawful, null and void and unconstitutional and must be removed from the office to sanitize the body polity of the country. Atiku maintained that…

  Kwara State Police Command on Tuesday paraded 13 suspects arrested for kidnapping and theft cases across the state. The suspects included six kidnappers, electricity cable thieves and two motorcycle thieves. The suspected kidnappers that were paraded for criminal conspiracy and kidnapping included Haruna Nuhu,28, Umar Shehu, 25, Maazu Mesaje, 35, Sani Mesaje, 21, Mohammed…

    The Kogi State Commissioner for Information and Communications, Hon. Kingsley Fanwo has said the November 11, 2023 Governorship Poll in the state is a referendum on the administration of Alh. Yahaya Bello. Fanwo stated this while receiving the leadership of the Ododo Support Organisation led by its Director General, Dr Aminu Adaira in…