Court Orders Public Servant to Sweep Church Premises for 2 Weeks for Contempt

A Karmo Grade I Area Court, Abuja, on Tuesday ordered a public servant, Uchenna Okolie, to sweep the premises of a Church for two weeks for contempt. Okolie, who resides at No 13, Moses Majekodunmi Crescent, Utako, Abuja and a staff of Pension Commission ( PenCom), is standing trial on two counts of criminal intimidation and constituting public disturbance. The Judge, Inuwa Maiwada, however, gave Okolie an option to pay a fine of N20,000 to be paid...

Iran Reports 200 Coronavirus Deaths in One Day

Iran has reported 200 coronavirus deaths in a single day for the first time since the beginning of the pandemic, a health ministry spokesperson said on Tuesday. Over the same period, the country reported 2,600 new infections, driving the total number of cases to 245,688, with 11,931 deaths. The Health Minister, Saeed Namaki, who likened the virus to a “bomb”, said “If we continue like this, we will be knocked out.” Namaki said many Iranians...

Federal High Court to Begin 2020 Annual Long Vacation July 27

The Federal High Court will on July 27, proceed on its annual long vacation for the year 2020, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), reports. In a circular issued by the Chief Judge of the Court, Justice John Tsoho, notifying the General public, the long vacation is to commence from Monday July 27, and end on Friday Sept. 25 while court activities are to resume on Monday Sept. 28. The vacation is made in pursuant...

Why EFCC Ag. Chairman is Being Investigated – Presidency Source

The Presidency says the ongoing interrogation of the embattled acting chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu, is to clear himself of weight allegations levelled against him. A presidency source, who preferred not to be named, told State House correspondents in Abuja on Tuesday that the probe of the anti-graft boss was an affirmation that nobody under “the present administration is above scrutiny’’. The source, who could neither confirm nor deny...

Local Contractors Seek Buhari’s Intervention on Payment

Local contractors in the country have appealed to President Muhammadu Buhari to intervene and see to the payment of contracts they executed in various Ministries, Department and Agencies (MDAs) of government. The contractors under the auspices of Local Contractors of Nigeria (LCN) made the appeal in Abuja on Tuesday during a press briefing. Publicity Secretary of the group Mr Dandy Rowland who addressed the press on behalf of the chairman said that over 5,000 contractors...

How to Think About Africa’s “Rising Middle Class” Amid COVID-19

Conventional wisdom is that Africa’s rising middle class is the engine for economic and social development, that its trajectory has been positive, and that the COVID-19 pandemic has seriously compromised the success of the middle class. However, on a continent of 1.3 billion people resident in more than fifty countries, this trope, much of it based on feel-good anecdotes, may obscure more than it illuminates. What is Africa’s middle class, how large was it before COVID-19, and was...

NUT Gives Ogun Govt. Conditions For Schools Reopening

Public school teachers in Ogun on Tuesday demanded the provision of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), infrared thermometers and hand sanitisers among other conditions for reopening of schools in the state. The state Chairman of the Nigerian Union of Teachers (NUT), Mr Titilope Adebanjo, gave the conditions while speaking with newsmen at the union’s secretariat in Abeokuta. Adebanjo insisted that the conditions must be met by the government before schools could reopen in the state. The...

Man to Die By Hanging For Armed Robbery in Ogun

An Abeokuta High Court in Ogun on Tuesday sentenced one Lukeman Kuti to death by hanging for armed robbery. Kuti, who was arraigned on a two-count charge of conspiracy and armed robbery, had pleaded not guilty to the charge. But delivering judgment, Justice Ayokunle Rotimi-Balogun said that all the evidences tendered had convinced the court beyond reasonable doubt that the convict committed the offences. She, thereafter, sentenced Kuti to death by hanging. Earlier at the...

NSCDC Arrests Leader of Shila Criminal Gang, Others in Adamawa

The Nigeria Security and Civil Defense Corps (NSCDC), Adamawa Command, has arrested a notorious leader of the Shila criminal gang, Michael Linus. Mr Nuradeen Abdullahi, the Commandant of the Corps in the state, paraded the suspect on Tuesday in Yola. Abdullahi said that the command through its intelligence network arrested Linus, a.k.a Damudu, a ring leader of Shila criminal gang and two others who were on the Command’s watch list. The Commandant explained that before...

Impeachment: Ondo Assembly Serves Deputy Governor Notice

The Ondo State House of Assembly on Tuesday in Akure served the state’s deputy governor, Agboola Ajayi,  an impeachment notice over allegation of gross misconduct. The motion was read by the Clerk of the assembly, Mr Bode Adeyelu. The Speaker of the assembly, Mr Bamidele Oleyelogun, said that he personally received the allegation petition against the deputy governor. According to Oleyelogun, the constitution empowers the assembly to investigate an allegation and proceed on impeachment when...

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