An Ikeja Special Offences Court on Wednesday refused the bail application pending appeal filed by the convicted Nollywoord actor, James Olarewaju, alias, Baba Ijesha. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Justice Oluwatoyin Taiwo rejected the bail application of the embattled actor on grounds that he did not meet exceptional circumstances and criteria to warrant the bail. “The applicant must show special and exceptional circumstances because the term given to him is five years which is to run concurrently. “There is no evidence that the appeal has been entered and there is no indication before this court that the court will not…
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An Ikeja Special Offences Court on Wednesday sentenced Ayodeji Oluokun, an assistant pastor of the Redeem Christian Church of God (RCCG), City of David Parish, Victoria Island, Lagos, to two years imprisonment for issuing 1.6 million dollar dud cheque. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Oluokun was charged alongside his company, Peak Petroleum Industry Nigeria Ltd., on an amended six-count charge bordering on issuance of dud cheque, stealing and obtaining money under false pretences. Justice Oluwatoyin Taiwo, in her judgment, held that the prosecution had successfully proved the charge of issuance of dud cheque against the defendants. Taiwo,…
A 131-carat white Type IIa diamond was uncovered from the Lulo mine, a 3,000 square km concession in Angola’s Lunda Norte diamond heartland. The country’s state-owned diamond company Endiama announced this on Wednesday. The diamond was found by Australia-based Lucapa Diamond Company, and its partners in Lulo’s Block 19, 11 days after a 160-carat diamond was extracted from the same mine. According to the company, this makes it the fourth diamond of over 100 carats to be discovered from the mine this year and the 29th overall, the company said. The diamond located approximately 630 km east of the capital…
A commercial motorcyclist was on Tuesday evening crushed to death in an accident involving a Toyota Highlander SUV and his motorcycle on Lagos-Badagry expressway. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) gathered that the motorcyclist was trying to make a U-turn when he was crushed by the black SUV, coming from Lagos to Badagry. The accident occurred around 5:30p.m. near Smark Shopping Mail along Badagry expressway, Lagos. A reliable source told NAN on Wednesday that the accident occurred when the driver of the vehicle, with registration number AAA 565 GD,on high speed, rammed into the Okada rider, who was crossing to…
President Muhammadu Buhari addressed the UN General Assembly on Wednesday for the last time as Nigeria’s leader. In his farewell speech, he told the global body that his administration was determined to entrench a process of free, fair, transparent and credible elections through which Nigerians would elect their leaders. “As president, I have set the goal that one of the enduring legacies I would leave is to entrench a process of free, fair, transparent and credible elections. “It is through that mechanism that Nigerians will elect leaders of their choice,’’ he said. He told the 77th UN General Assembly that in…
A philanthropist, Prince Ike Chioke, says he has concluded plans to establish an electronic library and ICT centre in Central School, Obioma in Udi Local Government Area of Enugu State. Chioke, the Group Managing Director of Afrinvest West Africa, said this on Tuesday in the community while receiving textbooks, on behalf of the school, from a delegation from BookmySchool, an NGO, led by its Chairman, Mr Abdullahi Idris. Chioke, who reconstructed and remodeled the school from foundation to its roof, re-commissioned it in December 2021 with the approval of the state government. The philanthropist commended the NGO for the textbooks,…
Sen. Biodun Olujimi, Chairperson, Senate Committee on Aviation says the senate will work with the House of Representatives to find lasting solution to the lingering crisis in Nigeria’s aviation sector. Olujimi, who represents Ekiti South Senatorial District, made this known while speaking with newsmen in Abuja, on Wednesday, in reaction to her new appointment. She stressed the importance of the sector to the nation’s economy, saying her committee would ensure adequate oversight functions to the aviation ministry and agencies to ensure that it thrived. Olujimi said: “I thank the senate President, Dr Ahmad Lawan for deeming it fit to give me the…
Greta Thunberg is to become an ambassador for a Swedish charity foundation that grants wishes to children with serious illnesses. The 19-year-old Swedish climate activist had been involved with the foundation My Special Day for some time, but was now taking the next step and becoming an official ambassador. The organisation this said on Wednesday. Thunberg said she was honoured to be given the role in a video released by the foundation. “It means a lot to me because I think it’s important to shine a light on the struggle that many children and young people with illnesses silently fight…
Rep. Toby Okechukwu (PDP-Enugu), has faulted his inclusion on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) list for 2023 poll, as the candidate of Labour Party’s (LP) for Aninri/Awgu/Oji River. Okechukwu, also the Deputy Minority Leader of the House of Representatives, said this in a statement on Wednesday in Abuja. “My attention has been drawn to the list of candidates for the 2023 general election released by INEC wherein my name was published as the Labour Party Candidate for Aninri/Awgu/Oji River Federal Constituency, Enugu State. “I wish to state that I will not be contesting as the candidate of the Labour…
Mr Abdullahi Aliyu, Executive Chairman, Toto Local Government Area of Nasarawa State, has said that no fewer than 17 communities in the area have been submerged by flood following torrential rainfall on Tuesday. Aliyu stated this on Wednesday in Umaisha, Toto LGA, when he visited some of the affected communities to assess the level of of devastation. The council chairman, who was represented by his Deputy, Abubakar kwanaki, said that the visit was to ascertain the level of damage caused by the flood in the affected communities. “We are here to see things for ourselves, the level of damages caused by…