The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Lagos Zonal Office, has secured the conviction and sentencing of a businessman, Charles Ihenetu, to 15 years imprisonment before Justice Mojisola Dada of a Special Offences Court sitting at the Lagos State High Court, Ikeja, Lagos. The convict was arraigned on May 16, 2018 alongside his company, V-Choice…
GOV HOPE UZODINMA INAUGURATES FOUR NEW COMMISSIONERS Imo state Governor, Hope Uzodimma has sworn in four new commissioners today following their confirmation by the Imo state house of assembly. Speaking at the swearing in ceremony held at the Sam mbakwe exco chamber, Gov Hope Uzodimma charged them to give in their best “For the incoming…
THE Commissioner of Police, Lagos Command, Mr. Hakeem Odumosu, yesterday, disclosed that policemen have been deployed to carry out 24 hours surveillance on schools and farms, to avert kidnappings and banditry in Lagos State. The Police boss, however, lamented that some of the terrains, especially those of the farms, were not accessible by vehicles….
There is a heavy military presence currently in some parts of Onitsha, Anambra State as troops of the Nigerian military have been deployed to arrest Eastern Security Network operatives who have been alleged to be the rampaging gunmen wreaking havoc in the state. SaharaReporters learnt that the military personnel were sighted on Monday evening on…
Facebook’s oversight board may return former United States Of America President, Donald Trump to facebook. This is according to a Bloomberg report. The panel consisting of the oversight board is structured in ways that help the former president’s chances of regaining his posting privileges. Sometime in the coming weeks, Facebook Inc.’s new Oversight Board…
The Nigerian government has taken delivery of the first set of 300,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccines out of a total of 1.4 million doses designated for Nigeria by the AU. The vaccines are a combination of doses of AstraZeneca vaccines from the COVAX facility, and from the African Union’s (AU) COVID-19 vaccination programme, towards which…
A legal practitioner, Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa (SAN) on Saturday raised the alarm concerning the worsening health of an American national in police custody, Kari Ann R’ouke. According to him, expectations were high that the citizen of the United States would be released from custody on Friday, March 19 2021, having fulfilled all her bail conditions…
Ugochi Uwahemo is a highly successful Nigerian raised in Maryland, USA. An Afrobeats dancer with a training background in hip hop, contemporary, modern, jazz and igbo traditional dancing. Ugochi has performed throughout the Maryland, DC, Virginia and New York. Her passion led to the establishment of Gucci Moves Choreography Dance Company. Ugochi has been…
Tanzania’s Samia Suluhu Hassan was on Friday sworn in as the country’s first female president after the sudden death of John Magufuli from an illness shrouded in mystery. Hassan, 61, a soft-spoken Muslim woman from the island of Zanzibar, will finish Magufuli’s second five-year term, set to run until 2025. Wearing a bright red headscarf,…
The Cape Verde’s Supreme Court on Wednesday gave an order authorising the extradition of the Venezuelan diplomat, Alex Saab, to the United States of America. The verdict is in sharp contrast to Monday’s judgment of the Court of Justice of the Economic Community of West African States on Mr Saab’s arrest, detention and plan by…