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The Medical Director of Optimal Cancer Care Foundation, Olufemi Olaleye, has been jailed for life over defilement of his wife’s niece. The Lagos State Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court in Ikeja, sentenced Olaleye and he could be seen in a captured video being escorted out of the court premises by correctional officers to the prison. The presiding Judge Rahman Oshodi, on Tuesday, October 24, found Olaleye guilty of the offence of defilement and sexual penetration of a 15-year-old girl. Related posts 7 fathers await trial for rape, defilement of daughters in A’Ibom- Gov’s wife  Actor’s Defilement Case Divides Nollywood…

Liberian President George Weah faces a November 14 run-off vote after edging out his main rival by less than half a percent in the first round, the National Electoral Commission said Tuesday announcing final results. Ex-international soccer star Weah garnered 43.83 percent of the votes from the October 10 election while Joseph Boakai won 43.44 percent, said election commission chief Davidetta Browne-Lansanah. With no candidate taking enough votes for an absolute majority to be elected, “the run-off vote is hereby declared to be held on Tuesday, 14th of November 2023,” she said. That sets up a repeat of the 2017…

Nigerian Senate is set to probe the N11.35 trillion contracts awarded for the rehabilitation of all state-owned refineries. Already, the Senate has raised an ad-hoc committee to investigate the contracts that purportedly lingered for 13 years. Consequently, the Red Chambers also mandated the panel to interrogate the Ministry of Petroleum Resources, Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission (NUPRC), Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation Limited (NNPCL) and Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE) on the best approach to commercialising state-owned refineries. Related posts Nigerian Senate Confirms NDDC Board and Management team  Senate trashes Tinubu’s Request For Military Intervention In Niger Republic Senate In Rowdy…

Rivers State High Court judge, Eberechi Wike, has advocated the amputation of people found guilty of defiling minors. Justice Wike, who is the wife of the immediate past Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, stated this on Tuesday on the sidelines of the 2nd National Conference of Family Court Judges, Magistrates, and other Family Court Practitioners in Port Harcourt, the state capital. She insisted that the current punishment isn’t drastic enough, adding that the move will deter sexual offenders from molesting minors. Related posts 7 fathers await trial for rape, defilement of daughters in A’Ibom- Gov’s wife Pastor Caught In Attempted…

A Nigerian Senator, Abdul Ningi, has indicted Federal Ministry of Works, Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) and state governments for delay in the construction and completion of the lingering East-West Road cutting across five states. The abandoned road has led to loss of several lives occasioned by socio-economic activities hardship among the road users. The chairman of the Senate Ad-hoc Committee on fact-finding, Sen. Ningi, representing Bauchi Central Senatorial District, blamed the various government bodies for duplication of award of contracts on the project. Related news East-West Road completion to gulp N200b- Minister Flood impact: East-West Road gets N506b variation …

The Supreme Court has reserved judgment in the appeal by Atiku Abubakar and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) against the judgment of the Presidential Election Petition Court which affirmed the victory of President Bola Tinubu in the February 25 presidential election. Though it also reserved judgment in the appeal by the Labour Party (LP), the apex court dismissed petition of the Allied Peoples Movement (APM). A seven-member panel of the court, headed by Justice Inyang Okoro announced this on Monday after counsels to parties adopted their briefs of argument and made final submissions. Also read: Tinubu victory: Supreme Court Fixes…

Enyimba F.C. suffered a 1-0 defeat against Wydad Casablanca in the first leg of their quarterfinal match in the African Football League. The only goal of the encounter came from a first-half penalty, which was conceded by Ojo Olorunleke at the Godswill Akpabio International Stadium, Uyo in Akwa Ibom State on Sunday evening. After the match, Coach Finidi George said that his team didn’t deserve to lose, although he acknowledged they struggled to create clear scoring chances. Also read: Sudanese El Merrikh Humble Enyimba In CAF Champions League  “For you to win games, you have to score-you take your chances,” George…

President Bola Tinubu and Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Lateef Fagbemi,  Monday hailed United Kingdom’s Court judgment awarding a landmark victory to the Federal Government of Nigeria over a firm known as Process & Industrial Development (P&ID) Limited. Judge Robin Knowles of the Business and Property Court in London, had dismissed the $11.5 billion (USD) value of the award plus accumulated interest, previously won by P&ID over a failed 2010 deal to allegedly build a gas processing plant, on the grounds that the award was obtained by fraud. A press release by Chief Ajuri Ngelale Special Adviser…

The Commercial Courts of England and Wales Monday ruled in favour of Nigeria in the enforcement of a $11bn arbitration award against Process & Industrial Developments (P&ID) Limited. With the judgement handed down physically in open court, and electronically by email to the parties on Monday, Nigeria has succeeded in stopping the enforcement of the award which was initially in favour of P&ID. In January 2010, the P&ID signed a Gas Supply and Processing Agreement (GSPA) with Nigeria to develop a processing plant in Calabar, the Cross River State capital but the deal never materialised. Related News P&ID: London Court…

More than 5,000 people have been killed in the besieged Palestinian enclave since Israel launched its withering bombing campaign more than two weeks ago, Gaza’s Hamas-run health ministry said Monday. Alarm has surged about the spiralling humanitarian crisis in Gaza amid the war sparked by the October 7 Hamas attack that, Israeli officials say, killed more than 1,400 people who were gunned down, stabbed or burnt by the Islamist militants. Hamas also took more than 200 hostages. On a day when Israel’s army reported more than 300 new strikes within 24 hours, Gaza’s health ministry said the death toll had…