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Agency Report A Federal High Court, Abuja has adjourned until Oct. 28 the trial of a lawyer, Everestus Ugwuowo and three others over allegations of defrauding a woman the sum of N29 million and forging documents to sell Abuja house. Justice Obiora Egwuatu adjourned the matter due to the busy scheduled of the court. The Inspector-General (I-G) of Police had sued Ugwuowo; Umar Sanda Adamu; Usman Audu and Adole Christopher Oche, a staff of Bureau of Public Procurement as 1st to 4th defendants respectively. The amended 11-count charge marked: FHC/ABJ/CR/121/2018 was dated and filed on April 29, 2019 by…

By Halimah Olamide The Nigerian Air Force has produced the first female professional golfer in the military. Sgt. Cynthia Maurice of the Nigerian Airforce has made history by becoming the country’s first Professional female golfer in the military at the week-long Professional Examinations which held from July 14 to July 20 took place at HSD Golf Club Bayelsa. The examinations sanctioned by the Professional Golfers Association of Nigeria (PGAN) consisted of playing ability tests, written and oral. NAN reports that Prof Emmanuel Odoh, the Assistant Resident Head Professional, TYB International Golf Resort and Country Club saying that Maurice’s journey was…

By Halimah Olamide The Federal Government has said its decision to submit a N6.2trn supplementary budget was to pay the new minimum wage and also enhance provision of infrastructure. Minister of Budget and National Planning, Alhaji  Atiku Bagudu, said that the funds would be spent on stimulating the economy through the implementation of various infrastructural projects. He stated these when he spoke before the House of Representatives’ Committee on Appropriation in Abuja. These projects, the minister said, include road, rail, water, irrigation, and dam projects in the 2024 fiscal year with prudent utilisation of the funds. He said that the…

By Kamil Opeyemi The Edo State Police command has said that the gunmen  involved in the attack on Monday Okpebholo, APC Governorship Candidate for Edo and the state’s reinstated deputy governor, Philip Shaibu, have gone into hiding. The Commissioner of Police, Funsho Adegboye said this on Monday while giving an update on the investigation into the July 18 attack on Airport Road in Benin. NPO Reports that some hoodlums had attacked Okpebholo and Shaibu, while coming out of the Benin Airport after arriving from Abuja. In the attack, the gunmen killed an Inspector of Police, Onu Akon, an orderly to…

By Halimah Olamide A Federal High Court, Abuja, has ordered the release of the international passport of Ali Bello to enable him travel to the United Kingdom for medical examination and consultation. Justice Obiora Egwuatu, while delivering the ruling on Bello’s motion on notice on Monday moved by his lawyer, Abubakar Aliyu, SAN, ordered the deputy chief registrar of the court to release his travel documents. Justice Egwuatu directed Bello to return  the international passport to the deputy chief registrar of the court on or before Sept. 15. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) had filed an alleged money…

Agency Report The late Justice Adegboye Gbolagunte of the Oyo State Judiciary has been described as an excellent jurist of impeccable honesty. The state Chief Judge (CJ), Justice Iyabo Yerima, said this on Monday in a valedictory court session held in honour of the deceased at the State High Court, Ibadan. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) recalls that Gbolagunte, a senior judge in the state judiciary, died after a protracted illness on June 24, at the age of 64. Yerima said the late justice was honest and impartial in discharging his duties. The CJ said Gbolagunte was the…

At least six people died after a gunman entered a home for the elderly in Croatia on Monday and started shooting, according to the country’s public broadcaster. A man with a firearm entered a private home for the elderly in the town of Daruvar, about 75 miles east of the capital Zagreb, and opened fire at those who were present, Croatian Radiotelevision (HRT) reported. Several people were also injured during the shooting, HRT said, without providing the exact number. Five of the victims died immediately, according to HRT. State news agency HINA has reported that some of those injured were receiving…

By Halimah Olamide A former Vice Chancellor of the Lagos state University and renowned pathologist, Prof. John Obafunwa has been named as the new Director-General of the Nigerian Institute of Medical Research (NIMR). According to a statement by Chief Ajuri Ngelale, the President’s spokesman, on Monday, Obafunwa will succeed Prof. Babatunde Salako, whose tenure expires on July 23. The appointment takes effect from July 24. Obafunwa qualified in medicine from the University of Lagos in 1980, following which he specialised in Anatomic Pathology (morphological study of diseases), graduating in May 1987. He later sub-specialised in Forensic Pathology in Scotland (1991)…

Agency Report Some consumers of confectionaries in Bwari Area Council of the FCT, have stopped buying bread, meat pies and other pastries, due to continuous hike in price of the commodities. The consumers spoke in separate interviews with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday in Abuja. They said that the increasing cost of food commodity had forced them to sought alternatives for breakfast. Mrs Ada Christopher, a mother of four, said the price of bread had persistently increased and almost unaffordable for the average Nigerian. She said that although her children loved to eat bread with tea…

By Halimah Olamide The House of Representatives has threatened to sanction oil companies that failed to appear before the committee in the probe of loss of 60 billion dollars  by the federal government. The committee listed Total Exploration, Shell Petroleum, Agip, Chevron, Oando, Mobil, Pan Ocean, Erotton, Belema, First Exploration, and New Cross Exploration as some of the companies involved. Others it listed are Seplat Petroleum, Amini International Petroleum, West Africa Exploration and Production Limited, Walter Smith Petroleum Ltd., and Western Sahara Energy Ltd., among others. The amount is an inflated cash calls by the Nigerian National Petroleum Company…