The Federal Government is to spend N22.44 billion in 2023 on feeding 75,507 inmates in prisons spread in 244 jails nationwide. The Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Interior, Shuaib Belgore, disclosed this on Thursday in Abuja at a two-day high-level conference on corrections and decongestion of prisons, explaining that the fund was budgeted for in the 2023 Appropriation Act. According to him, 70% of the inmates were awaiting trial, attributing it to arbitrary arrests, delay in...

Leading oil and gas company in Nigeria, Seplat Energy has said it has taken steps to counter moves to promote certain media publications to the effect that the Federal High Court, presided by Hon. Justice I. E. Ekwo, sitting in Abuja in suit number FHC/ABJ/CS/626/2023 – Juliet Gbaka & 2 others v. Seplat Energy Plc & 13 others has granted ex parte Interim Orders against Seplat Energy and some of its officers. According to a press statement...

The Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi, has described Professor Nnenna Oti, the vice-chancellor of the Federal University of Technology, Owerri, FUTO, as a living example of excellence and patriotism. Prof. Oti was the Independent National Electoral Commission’s Returning Officer during the Abia State governorship election who reportedly rejected financial inducements and withstood threats and intimidations to manipulate the result of the March 18 polls. The traditional ruler and monarch of the Yoruba kingdom...