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IFO – Magistrate Court in the Ifo Local Government Area of Ogun State, presided over by Chief Magistrate A.S Shoneye have granted bail to the celebrated Zazu crooner – Portable. Okikiola was on Monday, April 3, 2023 arraigned before the court on a five count charge, related to assault and …

LAGOS – The Premier Bank in West Africa and the leading financial inclusion services provider in Nigeria for over 128 years, First Bank of Nigeria Limited (FirstBank), has said that its attention has been drawn to a sponsored sensational report by some online publications on a charge brought against the …

LAGOS – The Federal High Court sitting in Lagos on Monday, March 27, 2023, granted an order of interim forfeiture of seven properties, three vehicles and $50,000 cash from Prof. Uche Chigozie Edwin, the National President of the Maize Growers, Processors and Marketers Association of Nigeria (MAGPAMAN). The order was …

…Laments Loss Of An Industrious Son And His Wife By ‘Deola Adefemi                     LAGOS – The people of Ilaro-Yewa in Ogun State have called on the Inspector General of Police, IGP Usman Alkali Baba, psc(+), NPM, NEAPS, fdc, CFR to help, …

USA – A man sentenced to 400 years in prison in a 1988 armed robbery in Broward has been set free after more than 34 years behind bars. Sidney Holmes, now 57, was released from prison Monday, March 13, 2023, following a request from the Broward State Attorney’s Office Conviction …

SOUTH AFRICA – The Pretoria Magistrate’s Court has sentenced a Nigerian, Onyeghani Ekene Dumkele, to life imprisonment for the murder of a multi-talented up-and-coming South African singer, Shaun Douglas Chabalala. Chabalala, who was also an actor and dancer, was found dead in his apartment in Pretoria West in August 2019. …

BY OMAJEMITE DON ASABA – The Delta Indigenes Initiative for Good Leadership (DIIGL), a political and human rights group based in Delta State, has asked Nigerians to stop burning down Banks and asked the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and Bank Managers to make the new naira notes available to …

LAGOS – The Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Fidelity Bank, Mrs. Nneka Chinwe Onyeali-Ikpe on Monday, February 6, 2023 sent to six weeks imprisonment over disobedience of a garnishee order of court restraining the Bank from allowing a judgment debtor access to his account. According to Magistrate Lateef …

RIVERS STATE – A middle-aged man identified as Baby Face has been reported to have strangled his lover and set himself ablaze at the Kom Kom area of Oyigbo in Oyigbo Local Government Area of Rivers State. According to the report Baby Face had interrogated his girlfriend and demanded explanation …

LAGOS – An Investigative Police Officer, IPO, Insp. Israel Ojo, on Monday, January 16, 2023, told an Ikeja Special Offences Court how a Nollywood actor, Temitayo Phillips Ogunbusola, allegedly stabbed his neighbour, Oladotun Osho, to death over a N1,000 electricity bill. It would be recalled that the 32-year-old actor is …