Author: Lawan

N100bn Bayelsa Stadium is a waste of public funds – PDP The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has launched a blistering attack on the All Progressive Congress (APC)- led government in Bayelsa over the ongoing construction of a new stadium at Igbogene, Yenagoa Local Government Area, valued at ₦100 billion. According to the opposition party, while it recognizes the importance of sports development and agrees that sporting infrastructure has a place in the development of any modern society, it argued that a government that is battling widespread hunger, unemployment, poverty and a struggling economy should not commit over ₦100billion to a…

President Bola Tinubu has expressed profound joy at the successful rescue of the children and teachers from Oriire community in Ogbomoso, Oyo State, by the security forces. President Tinubu praised the heroic efforts of the security agencies, especially the military, the DSS and the police, for working round the clock in the last 56 days to secure the release of the abducted children and their teachers without any collateral damage and for arresting eight of the abductors and neutralising others. President Tinubu regretted the anguish that the children and their teachers, as well as members of their families and the…

Man Bags Two Years, Four Months Jail Term for N822m Fraud in Lagos The Lagos Zonal Directorate 1 of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Friday, July 10, 2026, secured the conviction and sentence of one Minnis Uchenna Howard and his company, Howard Minnis Asset Management Limited, before Justice R. A. Oshodi of the Lagos State Special Offences Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos, for fraud involving N822,422,260. The defendants were initially arraigned on November 30, 2023, on a two-count charge bordering on obtaining by false pretence and stealing, to which they pleaded not guilty. During the trial, the…

Zambia’s Vice President, Mutale Nalumango, escaped unhurt after a military helicopter crashed shortly after take-off from a campaign rally in Nakonde, near the Tanzania border. According to Zambian authorities, all eight people on board, including the vice president, survived the crash without sustaining any injuries.Nalumango said the helicopter went down moments after leaving the ground. Although the aircraft was extensively damaged in the incident, all occupants were safely evacuated.

Senate passes legal practitioners, proceeds of crime recovery amendment bills The Senate yesterday passed the Legal Practitioners Act Repeal and Re-enactment Bill 2026, alongside the Proceeds of Crime Recovery and Management Amendment Bill 2026. The bills were passed following the presentation and consideration of reports by the Senate Committee on Judiciary, Human Rights and Legal Matters, chaired by Adeniyi Adegbonmire. Presenting the committee’s report, Adegbonmire, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), said the legal practitioners’ bill would repeal the existing legal practitioners’ acts and provide a modern regulatory framework for Nigeria’s legal profession. He said that the committee conducted thorough…

King’s College: Why we disagree with concessioning –parents community Federal Government’s concessioning of King’s College Lagos has continued to attract rejection from the school’s unit of the Association of Senior Civil Servants of Nigeria (ASCSN). The parents community of the foremost unity college also disagreed with the arrangement. The Federal Government had approved concessioning of the college to its old boys association.Chairman of King’s College Lagos Unit of ASCSN, Mr Enang Samuel, all the staff of the college rejected the concession. He said that the Federal Government should retain ownership of the college and continue to operate it. The chairman…

UBEC recovers N100bn dormant education funds The Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC) has declared that it is charting a new course for Nigeria’s basic education sector after recovering and mobilising more than N100 billion in previously dormant matching grants, describing the feat as a major breakthrough in efforts to improve learning outcomes across the country. The Executive Secretary of UBEC, Aisha Garba, stated this at a media luncheon with education correspondents in Abuja, yesterday. She said the commission had moved beyond policy reforms to delivering tangible results that are transforming schools, strengthening teachers and creating better opportunities for millions of…

Coalition of Lagos indigenous people petitions Sanwo-Olu over renaming of old streetsLagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwolu has been asked to urgently halt the renaming of historic streets by the Chairman of Lagos Mainland Local Government before it generates a crisis. In a ‘Save Our Soul’ petition to the governor in Lagos, yesterday, by the Coalition of Indigenous Peoples of Lagos State (COLIP) and signed by its spokesperson, Chief Adesunbo Onitiri, the group said the action of the Council was a dangerous attempt to erase very important heritage of Lagos State, particularly the indigenous peoples. The petition, titled, “Save our historic…

Tinapa coming back to life before December -Gov Otu Governor Bassey Otu of Cross River has promised that the Tinapa Business and Leisure Resort will come back to life before the end of the year. Responding to questions from newsmen in Calabar yesterday, he disclosed that his administration had engaged in lengthy negotiations to recover and reposition the business resort that the state recently recovered from Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON). Otu explained that the decision to focus on reviving Tinapa was driven by financial realities and the need to protect existing public investments.“The state has invested more than…

‎The Lagos Zonal Directorate 2 of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Thursday, July 9, 2026 arraigned a former staff of a new generation bank, Chinonso Akujobi, for an alleged N294,595,992 theft before Justice I.O. Ijelu of the State High Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos. Chinonso is being prosecuted on a five-count charge bordering on stealing to the tune of N294.5m. One of the charges reads:”That you, Chinonso Akujobi, sometime between January and December, 2025, in Lagos, within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court, with a dishonest intent, and while under the employment of Access Bank Plc, stole…