Justice Omotosho adjourned the matter for continuation of trial, after the Prosecution Witness, Olom Egoro, staff from the compliance unit of a commercial bank, completed his evidence. The banker, who is the sixth prosecution witness for the EFCC, told the court that the EFCC, via a letter requested the bank statement of the Kogi State…
Gunmen numbering about seven, armed with AK-47 rifles, struck around between Ilisan, Ceplast industry, and Iperu junction axis of the Expressway. Though the incident happened on Sunday, the police authorities confirmed the death of a passenger on Tuesday. According to the Police Public Relations Officer in Ondo State, Omolola Odutola, the incident was recorded as…
The US Army reported that the soldier, identified by a court in Vladivostok as Gordon Black, had been detained on criminal charges. It withheld details, citing the sensitivity of the case. The detention of Black adds to the number of US citizens held in Russia at a time of tensions with Washington over Moscow’s invasion…
Two men, Oluwadaisi Samuel, 42 and Innocent Osadare, 39, were on Tuesday, arraigned in an Ado-Ekiti Chief Magistrates’ Court over alleged fraud. The defendants of unknown addresses are facing a charge of fraud. The police prosecutor, Insp Sodiq Adeniyi, told the court that the defendants committed the offence on April 6, and April 23 at…
A Benin High Court, on Tuesday, ordered the remand one Ikechukwu Tony in a correctional centre in Benin over alleged attempt to rape a 50-year-old woman. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the suspect was arraigned on a count charge of rape, to which he, however, pleaded not guilty. The State Prosecuting Counsel,…
The statewide exercise to free Lagos of visible security risks has continued after the arrest of some suspects under the Dolphin Estate Bridge.A statement by the Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Gbenga Omotoso, said 450 miscreants were rescued at the weekend.“Of the lot, 371 pleaded for assistance to relocate to their states due to the…
An Onitsha High court, presided over by Justice S N Odili, has sentenced a former Manager of First City Monument Bank (FCMB), in Onitsha branch, Nwachukwu Placidus, to 121 years in prison for fraudThe cumulative sentence was for diverting fixed deposit funds of a customer amounting to N112,100,000 for personal use. Justice Odili handed the…
Normalcy is gradually returning to the supply and distribution chain of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) or petrol, following the scarcity of the product in the last three weeks.The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) blamed the development on “logistics” issuesThe improved petrol supply across the country, The Nation gathered yesterday, was not unconnected with the…
The gross earnings of Zenith Bank Plc rose by 189 per cent in the first quarter of the year; the bank has announced its unaudited results.The impressive triple-digit growth performance shot the bank’s earnings to N781 billion as against the N270 it reported in the first quarter of last year. According to the report, the…
