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1 week ago | 
premiumtimesng.com | Mohammed Oluwatimileyin Taoheed
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has arrested a Nigerian returning from Malaysia with methamphetamine concealed in loudspeakers, the agency said in a statement. The statement by the spokesperson, Femi Babafemi, was shared on the agency’s X timeline on Saturday. Mr Babafemi said that the Malreturnee, Ndubuisi Udatu, also known as Richard, was intercepted at a checkpoint in Namtari, along the Ngurore-Yola Road in Adamawa State, North-west Nigeria.
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2 weeks ago | 
premiumtimesng.com | Mohammed Oluwatimileyin Taoheed
The National Industrial Court in Makurdi, Benue State, has ordered the state government to pay more than N6.8 million as death benefits to the widow of a deceased official of the state. Judge Isaac Essien ordered the payment of death benefits, which had been due since May 2017, to the widow of Linus Otigbo, according to the synopsis of the judgement shared on the court’s website on Tuesday.
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2 weeks ago | 
premiumtimesng.com | Mohammed Oluwatimileyin Taoheed
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has said that illicit financial flows cost Africa a whopping $88.6 billion yearly. Abdel-Fatau Musah, the ECOWAS commissioner for political affairs, peace, and security, said this during a training on financial investigation for anti-corruption institutions across its member-states. The training wad held in Zuba, Niger State on Monday.
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2 weeks ago | 
premiumtimesng.com | Mohammed Oluwatimileyin Taoheed
The Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS) in Bayelsa State, South-south Nigeria, on Sunday, reacted to a media report regarding the six-year detention and trial of some domestic aides of the former first lady Patience Jonathan.
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2 weeks ago | 
premiumtimesng.com | Mohammed Oluwatimileyin Taoheed
The Nigerian police in Kaduna State have disowned and arrested Hadaina Hussaini following his social media post threatening attacks on Southerners living in Northern Nigeria in retaliation for the recent killing of 16 travellers in Uromi, Edo State, in South-South Nigeria. Mr Hussaini, who appears in police uniform in an image circulating online, issued the threat in a comment under a Facebook post.
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2 weeks ago | 
premiumtimesng.com | Mohammed Oluwatimileyin Taoheed
The Federal High Court in Lagos, South-west Nigeria, on Thursday, rejected a suit challenging the construction of the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway project. Delivering judgement, the judge, Akintayo Aluko, held that the court lacked jurisdiction to hear the suit. But instead of striking out the case, he ordered its transfer to the Lagos State High Court, which he considered to have the jurisdiction over the matter, to hear it.
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3 weeks ago | 
premiumtimesng.com | Mohammed Oluwatimileyin Taoheed
A group of civil society organisations has petitioned the Legal Practitioners Disciplinary Committee (LPDC) calling for sanctions against Senate President Godswill Akpabio and another serving senator, Neda Imasuen, over allegations of bad behaviour and unethical practices levelled against them following the suspension Kogi Central senator, Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan.
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3 weeks ago | 
premiumtimesng.com | Mohammed Oluwatimileyin Taoheed |Mohammed Taoheed
Gender advocates and rights activists have called for urgent reforms to protect women and girls in the country amid growing concerns over workplace sexual harassment. The roundtable event was organised by Baobab for Women’s Human Rights, a nonprofit organisation advocating for gender inclusion, in Abuja on 27 March. The event, themed, “Creating Safe and Supportive Workplace Environments for Women and Girls,” brought together Nigerian legislators, civil society groups, journalists among others.
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1 month ago | 
premiumtimesng.com | Abiodun Sanusi |Mohammed Oluwatimileyin Taoheed
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), on Monday, presented its first round of witnesses in the trial of former Kogi State Governor Yahaya Bello, at the Federal High Court in Abuja. The commission also presented the statement of bank account and account opening package of Mr Bello’s children’s school, American International School, Abuja. The statement of bank accounts covered 1 to 30 September 2020.
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2 months ago | 
premiumtimesng.com | Mohammed Oluwatimileyin Taoheed
The Federal High Court in Abuja on Monday gave Diezani Alison-Madueke, a former Minister of Petroleum, permission to amend her suit challenging the auctioning of her forfeited assets. Channels TV reports that the judge, Inyang Ekwo, granted the application after it was moved by the ex-minister’s lawyer, Godwin Inyinbor. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), which secured the order of forfeiture of the assets, did not oppose the application for suit amendment.
