A Nigerian lawyer, Daniel Makolo has been clamped into detention and subjected to emotional and physical trauma for writing a petition to the Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, faulting the tenure extension granted to one of the Nigerian Immigration top shots. It’s alleged that based on the petition, an ex parte order from an Abuja Magistrates court is obtained to remand Makolo in police cell for two weeks. Makolo was arrested on Monday at the Garki police station where he had gone to represent a client. Since Monday when he was detained, he has been severally moved from the…
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The attention of Ekiti State Rural Access and Agricultural Marketing Project (EKRAAMP) has been drawn to a rumour making the rounds that the Project is recruiting and asking job seekers to pay a sum of Fifteen Thousand Naira (#15,000). For the records, EKRAAMP wishes to dissociate itself from such recruitment and state emphatically that it is neither recruiting nor asking anyone to pay any money for job. Should there be need for the Project to recruit, it will follow due process by advertising same in the national dailies and its official website, www.ekitiraamp.org. The purported recruitment is a scam aimed…
Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria has said it is very disappointed that the Rivers State High Court affirmed the enforcement of the purported sale of interests in SPDC JV’s assets in Kidney Island and specified interests in Oil Mining Lease 11 to the Rivers State Government. The SPDC expressed its disappointment on Friday in a statement entitled ‘Shell appeals asset sale judgment’. It said it had therefore filed an appeal and an application for a stay of execution of the recent judgment issued by the Rivers State High Court on August 13. It noted that prior to the instant…
The Lagos State Government has said ride-hailing operators will pay a levy of N20 known as road improvement fund, on each trip their drivers make in a day starting from August 27. The state government disclosed this on Friday in a statement signed by the Chief Press Secretary to the governor, Gboyega Akosile, and entitled ‘Lagos govt, e-hailing operators agree on new regulations’ According to the statement, a meeting between the state government and representatives of the ride-hailing operators was held on Friday, with Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu in attendance. The Commissioner for Transportation, Dr Frederic Oladehinde, said the state government…
The Ilorin zonal office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has secured the conviction of one Kolade Emmanuel Balogun, who was charged to court for offences bordering on internet fraud. The charge against the suspect read; “That you, KOLADE BALOGUN (a.k.a Willam Davis, alias Behemoth) sometime in March 2020 or thereabout at Ilorin, Kwara State within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court attempted to commit an offence of cheating by impersonation, pretending and representing yourself to be a white man called Willam Davis, alias Behemoth to an unsuspected white woman on dating site called SeekingArrangement as it is contained in…
A chieftain of People’s Democratic Party (PDP) and Executive Chairman of the Oyo Pacesetters Transport Company, Hon. Dare Adeleke has described former Governor or Ekiti State, Ayo Fayose as an ingrate. Adeleke was reacting to statements made by Fayose asking PDP leader and elder statesman, Chief Bode George, to go and rest. Fayose had stated that he was quoted out of context with regards to the on-coming elections in Edo State. Fayose, who crested to power under the PDP twice as governor of Ekiti State had insinuated in a published statement credited to him that he was not in support…
The 14th Governing Council of Emmanuel Alayande College of Education, Oyo under the Chairmanship of Professor Mathew Odedokun, has approved the appointment of Mrs. Olubunmi Siju Asunmo (Nee Babalola) as the College Acting Registrar. According to a special release issued by the Registrar/Secretary to Council, Alh. T. L. Adediran J.P, the appointment will take effect from Thursday, 20 August, 2020 when the incumbent Registrar, would have retired from service. Mrs. Olubunmi Siju Asunmo, MNIM, FIPAN, was born on August 15, 1964. She joined the services of Emmanuel Alayande College of Education, Oyo, then known as St. Andrew’s College of Education,…
The Senate of the University of Lagos has taken its protest over the removal of the institution’s Vice Chancellor, Prof. Oluwatoyin Ogundipe, to Nigeria’s seat of power in Abuja, Aso Rock. In a video obtained by The Eagle Online, the Senate submitted a petition, said to have had the backing of 91 professors, to President Muhammadu Buhari. The Leader of the Team and the school’s former Dean of Law, Prof. Chioma Agomoh, said they were at the Presidential Villa because the President is the Visitor to the University. Agomoh said on August 13, the Senate of the University held an…
In a bid to combat misinformation in Africa using technology, the International Centre for Investigative Reporting on Friday officially launched the FactCheckHub, an independent, fact-checking platform. A statement by the Executive Director of the centre, Dayo Aiyetan, disclosed that the FactCheckHub was set up with the aim of combating misinformation, disinformation, hoaxes and rumours about topical issues, including COVID-19, elections, health and governance. Aiyetan said: “The first idea about setting up a fact-check operation occurred to us shortly in 2018 before Nigeria’s general election, because there was a lot of misinformation generated. “And we got involved in the process that…
Ilorin, Aug. 14, 2020 The management of Kwara Polytechnic, Ilorin, says the state government has not suspended its Rector, Abdul Muhammed. A statement by the institution’s Head of Information and Publication Division, Mr Ajibola Jimoh, on Friday described the report as false and a mischievous attempt to denigrate the person of the rector and bring the polytechnic into disrepute. He said the purveyors of the report attempted to present the rector as a candidate of the immediate past administration in the state. “The rector’s appointment was approved and ratified by the present governor, Mallam AbdulRahman AbdulRasaq, in November 2019, several…
