Category: Metro
3 Nigerian women arrested, prosecuted for drug trafficking in Saudi Arabia regain freedom
Three Nigerian women arrested and prosecuted for drug trafficking in Saudi Arabia have been acquitted and released.
In a statement on Sunday, Kimiebi [...]
How Lagos resident’s money vanished from account after loosing UBA ATM card
Gabriel Olatunde, a Lagos State resident, has narrated how N81,000 mysteriously vanished from his United Bank for Africa (UBA) account.
Olatunde re [...]
Lagos resident loses N537,000 life savings to fake UBA customer representative
Lilian Ojibe, a Lagos resident has lost N537,000, all the money she had saved for five years in United Bank for Africa, UBA, in preparation for her te [...]
LPDC rejects Afe Babalola’s firm bid to disbar Dele Farotimi
The Legal Practitioners Disciplinary Committee (LPDC) has rejected a request by Emmanuel Chambers, Afe Babalola’s law firm, to disbar Dele Farotimi, a [...]
Coca-Cola, FrieslandCampina, Guinness shut down by Lagos government over regulatory non-compliance
The Lagos State Water Regulatory Commission (LASWARCO) has sealed the factories belonging to Coca-Cola Hellenic Bottling Company, FrieslandCampina WAM [...]
Akintoye Akindele, Atlantic International Refinery boss arraigned again over $35m fraud
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Monday, December 24, arraigned a businessman, Akindele Akintoye, before Justice Emeka Nwite of [...]
Court upholds conviction of business man, Kolawole Adedayo Erinle over $1.4m fraud
A three-man panel of the Court of Appeal, in Lagos state, have upheld the conviction and 12-year prison sentence of businessman Kolawole Adedayo Erinl [...]
Stampede incidents reflect Nigeria’s systemic failures – Peter Obi
Peter Obi, presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in the 2023 elections, has condemned the recent stampedes that claimed lives across the [...]
‘Wole Soyinka, Femi Falana led protests as young men, take the bull by the horns,’ NHRC tells youths
The Nigerian Human Rights Community (NHRC) says those compelling Wole Soyinka, the Nobel laureate, and Femi Falana, a senior advocate of Nigeria (SA [...]
EFCC arrests Osang Usie Otukpa for defrauding 139 Australians
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC has arrested Osang Usie Otukpa, a fraudster, for defrauding 139 Australians to the tune of 8 millio [...]