An Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court on Tuesday sentenced the embattled Medical Director of Optical Cancer Care Foundation, Dr Olufemi Olaleye, to double life imprisonment for defiling 16-year-old wife’s niece. A news Report by a correspondent noted that Justice Rahman Oshodi held that the prosecution proved the two counts of defilement and sexual assault by penetration against Olaleye. Oshodi said that the evidence adduced before the court against the defendant was compelling and proved beyond reasonable doubt. According to him, the confessional statement of the defendant, which he made before his lawyer, Mr Olalekan Buruji, and the DPO…
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The Corporate Affairs Commission says it has uncovered 189 fake companies used to secure land allocations in the Federal Capital Territory. The Registrar General of the commission, Hussaini Magaji, disclosed this during a press briefing on Tuesday in Abuja. Magaji stated that the discovery was made following a complaint from the Federal Capital Territory Administration to verify the status of a non-existing company seeking land allocation. He explained that the discovery of the non-existent company led him to investigate further, resulting in the identification of other companies. He added that two suspects including a lawyer have been apprehended and a…
Date: 2023-OCT- 24 🎯TOPIC: GOD WILL PUNISH UNJUST LEADERS 📺 WATCH THE DEVOTION VIA THE LINK BELOW👇 https://youtu.be/P1QcP0vG_ws?si=gmEXMSsafjod7pp ✝ TEXT: Micah3(NKJV) 3:1. And I said: “Hear now, O heads of Jacob, And you rulers of the house of Israel: [Is it] not for you to know justice? 3:2. You who hate good and love evil; Who strip the skin from My people, And the flesh from their bones; 3:3. Who also eat the flesh of My people, Flay their skin from them, Break their bones, And chop [them] in pieces Like [meat] for the pot, Like flesh in the caldron.”…
Cairo, Egypt 17th – 19th October2023 I. WE GATHERED: 1. Anglican orthodox leaders met at All Saints’ Cathedral in Cairo, Egypt from 17th – 19th October 2023. The theme for the meeting was “I will make you as a light to the nations” (Isaiah49: 6b). This resonates deeply with the essence of our faith and the mission of the Church. In his opening address, the chairman of GSFA, Archbishop Justin Badi encouraged us as followers of Jesus to be bearers of God’s light by living and proclaiming His Truth in a sin-ruined and broken world. 2. We were immensely grateful…
The Supreme Court has reserved judgment in the appeal filed by the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, against the tribunal’s judgment affirming President Bola Tinubu’s election. The seven-man panel led by John Inyang Okoro after listening to the submissions of the parties involved in the matter said the judgment date would be communicated to them. Other members of the panel are Uwani Aji, Mohammed Garba, Ibrahim Saulawa, Adamu Jauro, Abubakar Tijjani, and Emmanuel Agim. Adopting his addresses, Obi’s lead counsel, Livy Uzoukwu urged the court to hear the appeal. INEC lawyer, Mahmoud, while making his submissions urged…
Israel on Monday said it has launched over 300 strikes on the Gaza Strip within 24 hours. The Hamas rulers of the besieged Palestinian territory state that the attack has left dozens killed. More than two weeks into the war triggered by the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel that killed 1,400, alarm has surged about the spiralling humanitarian crisis in Gaza. The Hamas-run health ministry also disclosed that more than 4,650 have been killed in Gaza, around 40 percent of them children, adding that thousands of buildings have been destroyed and more than one million people are displaced. About…
The World Health Organisation has urged Israel to withdraw its evacuation order for hospitals in northern Gaza. “There are patients who are there that cannot simply be moved, many there are on mechanical ventilators. “There are also newborns on incubators, people in unstable conditions, and it’s very difficult to move them,” WHO spokesman, Tarik Jašarević said on Monday. He said the task was “almost impossible.” “We are calling on Israel to reconsider this order,” Jašarević said. So far, four trucks carrying surgical and dressing materials as well as medicines for chronic illnesses have been brought into Gaza through the Rafah…
The Supreme Court has struck out the appeal by the Allied Peoples Movement seeking to nullify the election of President Tinubu. The party had claimed that the placeholder nominated by the president, Ibrahim Masari, was not replaced within the 14 days stipulated by Section 33 of the Electoral Act. At the hearing on Monday the lead counsel for the party, Chukwuma -Machukwu Ume told the court that their appeal was not premised on double nomination. He insisted that the Vice President, Kashim Shettima was illegally nominated. The court asked if the APM had anything to gain from the matter. “What…
The Supreme Court has reserved judgment in the petition by the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Atiku Abubakar, seeking to void the declaration of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu as winner of the 2023 presidential election. Justice John Inyang Okoro, who led a 7-man panel of Justices of the Court in Monday’s proceedings, announced reservation of the final judgment after taking arguments from lawyers in the matter. Justice Okoro said parties in the matter would be communicated as soon as the judgment date is fixed. Meanwhile, Atiku Abubakar on Monday at the Supreme Court insisted that President Bola…
The seven-man panel of Justices of the Supreme Court that would adjudicate the petition of the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Atiku Abubakar, and his counterpart in the Labour Party, Peter Gregory Obi, has been unveiled. Contrary to speculations in the past week, the panel is headed by Justice John Inyang Okoro and includes Uwani Aba-Aji, Lawal Garuba and Ibrahim Saulawa. The rest are Adamu Jauro, Abubakar Tijani and Emmanuel Akomaye Agim. The seven-man panel of Justices of the Supreme Court that would adjudicate the petition of the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Atiku Abubakar, and…