Court Gives FG 7 Days To Fix Prices Of Foodstuffs, Petroleum Products, Others

    Justice Ambrose Lewis-Allagoa of a Federal High Court, in Lagos has ordered the Federal Government to fix the prices of food stuffs, and petroleum products within seven days from today (Wednesday). The judge made the order while delivering judgment in a suit marked FHC/L/CS/869/2023, filed by human rights lawyer, Mr. Femi Falana (SAN), against the Price Control Board and the Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF). Specifically, the court ordered the Federal Government to fix the price of Milk, Flour, salt, sugar, bicycles and its spare parts, matches, motorcycles…

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EFCC Arraigns Enugu Couple, One Other for Alleged Land Fraud

  The Enugu Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC has arraigned a couple, Mr Udeani Simon Sunday and his wife, Udeani Dorcas Amaka before Justice M.G. Umar of the Federal High Court sitting in Enugu. They were arraigned on three-count charges bordering on obtaining the sum of N2,750,000.00 (Two Million, Seven Hundred and Fifty Thousand Naira) by false pretence in an alleged land fraud One of the charges against the Udeanis read: “That you Udeani Simon Sunday and Udeani Dorcas Amaka, between 10th July 2019 to…

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Delta Revenue TaskForce Extorts N35,000 From Secondary School Teacher Over Vehicle Particulars

    A secondary school teacher, rushing her daughter to Ufor hospital for medical treatment has narrated her ordeal how the Delta State Board of Internal Revenue taskforce allegedly extorted N35,000 from her in Ughelli North Local Government Area. The teacher, (name withheld ) attached to a secondary in Ughelli metropolis, was said to have been accosted by the task force led by Samson Igho as chairman along Isoko road by Oharisi primary school on Thursday. According to the teacher, “I was rushing my daughter to Ufor hospital for treatment…

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Revelation Microfinance Bank Is God Ordain Institution For Financial Solution -Esemudje 

BOARD chairman of Revelation Microfinance Bank Ughelli, Engr Frank Esemudje has revealed that the vision of financial institution is an ordination of God that is centered on empowering individuals and small businesses. Engr Esemudje made this known during the official inauguration of the Microfinance bank at Post Office road, in Ughelli North Local Government Area. According to him, “Our doors are open for business and we are committed to to providing accessible and innovative financial situation that will enable our customer to build a better future. “One of our core…

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Host Community Tackles DSC Mgt., FG Over Land Threat

By Sunday Apah   The President General of Ovwian community, Olorogun Frank Muwhen (aka Magamu), has told the management of Premium Steel and Mines Limited not to extend its alleged sales of land and equipment of the plant to his community farmlands that were not acquired by the defunct Delta Steel Company. Magamu, who made this known in a press release in reaction to a publication credited to the Director of Legal Affairs, Premium Steel and Mines Limited, Emmanuel Agbaje Esq, claiming that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu had directed for…

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Dunamis Pastor, Dr. Enenche Storms Delta To Inaugurate Financial Institution Sept 23

  The founder of Dunamis International Gospel Center and  Televangelist, Dr. Paul Enenche, will on September 23, inaugurate and presides over the grand opening of Revelation MicroFinance Bank Ughelli, in Ughelli North Local Government Area, Delta State.   The inauguration and official opening of the financial institution is set to take place at the bank premises on Saturday at 10:00am along Post office road, opposite Unity Bank. Revelation microfinance bank is among the newly approved microfinance bank by the Central Bank of Nigeria CBN with its first branch sited in…

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Fight Against Oil Theft: Why Tinubu Should Act Now!

By Comrade Ovasa Ogaga   The fact that Nigeria is the 7th largest crude oil producing Nation is not news, but what is news is that this high value of crude oil production has not translated to huge wealth for the Nation, no thanks to organized syndicates of local and international oil thieves, who for many years have swarmed the “swamp filled with Dollars” to make themselves rich with our collective national patrimony. Recall that between 2005-2009 the Niger Delta Region was reduced into a theatre of the absurd, owing…

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N2.9 Billion: EFCC Jails Orubebe, George Turnah, Others, For Six Years

Justice A. T. Mohammed of the Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, has convicted and sentenced a former Special Adviser to Dan Abia, erstwhile managing director of Niger Delta Development Commission, George Turnah, and two others: Ebis Orubebe and Uzorgor Silas Chidebere, to six years imprisonment for obtaining money under false pretence, money laundering, conversion of funds and forgery contrary to Section 1 (1) (a) of the Advance Fee Fraud and Other Fraud Related Offences Act, 2006 and punishable under Section 1(3) of the same Act. They…

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CBN Policy: Nigeria Banks Set To Begin Closure Of Accounts Of Unregistered Associations And Societies

Most of Nigeria’s banking service providers have recently commenced the process of closing down the bank accounts of unregistered associations and societies domiciled in their respective banks pursuant to a directive of the Central Bank of Nigeria to that effect. The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) had recently directed that all Community Based Association bank accounts opened without CAC Certificate be closed on or before July 12, 2022. It further directed any Association, Club, Town Union, Age Grade, Foundation, or Church account affected to register with Corporate Affairs Commissions and…

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