An Abuja high court has granted the interim forfeiture of houses and lands linked to former Chairperson of the Board of the Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund (NSITF), Mrs. Ngozi Juliet Olejeme. Olejeme was accused of using funds she received as kickbacks from contractors through third parties between 2009 and 2015, to buy properties including one she allegedly acquired for N1.3billion in Abuja in 2012. The 46 properties listed in documents filed by the EFCC in court, are said to be located in Abuja, Bayelsa and Delta states. …
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The Nigerian government has admitted its mistake on not obtaining a land title certificate or a building permit for its new structure at the Nigerian High Commission in Accra, Ghana which was recently demolished. Foreign Affairs Minister, Geoffrey Onyeama who disclosed this however added that the mistake was not enough reason for the demolition of the building by a Ghanaian businessman last weekend. He noted that the Ghanaian government has assumed responsibility for the demolition and promised to rebuild the …
Rev Paul Abam, head Pastor of Word Based Prophetic and Deliverance Ministry in Cross River State has been disgraced after allegedly being caught planting charm in his cousin’s land, in a bid to extort money from him. A family source said the Pastor told his cousin that he needed money to uproot a charm someone planted in his land. He was however traced and caught redhanded with some fetish stuffs at a shrine in Itigidi after a resident of the community saw him planting …
269 Nigerians who were stranded in India due to the Covid-19 pandemic have been evacuated and they arrived Nigeria today, June 13. Upon arrival, they broke into songs of worship and it was captured on video. Nigerians in Diaspora Commission, NIDCOM, announced that the evacuees all tested negative to Covid-19 before they were allowed to board. They will now proceed on a compulsory 14 days self-isolation. Below is a video showing the moment they arrived. …
The Lagos state government has sealed off 34 buildings in highbrow Banana Island for not having land permits and other infractions of the physical planning law. 15 properties were first sealed off at the beginning of the exercise. An additional 19 were sealed off on Thursday evening June 11. The Commissioner for Physical Planning and Urban Development, Dr. Idris Salako, who led the enforcement exercise, stated that the Government would not sit by and allow people to violate planning …
The Director of Online media of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Mr. Ambrose Nwogwugwu has been arraigned before a Magistrate court sitting in Owerri on charges bordering on terrorism and defamation following some of his Facebook posts “targeted” at Governor Hope Uzodinma of Imo state. In the charge sheet marked 0W/217c/2020, it was alleged that the 29-year-old PDP official accused the governor of constructing a rural grazing area for herdsmen in the state, planning to rename Imo State University after Abba Kyari the …