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A former governor of Ogun State, Chief Olusegun Osoba, has said that an agreement was reached during the All Progressives Congress merger that the presidential candidate of the party for the 2023 presidential election will come from the South. Speaking when he featured on an Arise Television’s programme, Osoba noted that the agreement was that the North would produce the president in 2015, while the chairman of the party would come from the South. He said, “We had a clear gentlemanly understanding that the Northern part of the country would produce the president when we did the merger in 2013. And the chairman of the party will then come from the South. “We have had a President for six and a half years now from the North in APC. The president will be there for eight years until 2023. The chairmanship has moved from Chief Bisi Akande in the South-West to John Oyegun from the South-South and then from John Oyegun to Adams Oshiomhole from the South-South. “Of course, at the end...

The Managing Director, First City Monument Bank Limited, Adam Nuru, has been asked to go on leave to enable the bank to investigate the paternity allegation against him. This was disclosed in a statement by the bank on Tuesday. Ladunliadinews The statement read, “We are aware of several stories circulating across several media platforms about our bank’s Managing Director, Adam Nuru; a former employee, Mrs Moyo Thomas, and her deceased husband, Mr Tunde Thomas. “While this is a personal matter, the tragedy of the death of Mr Tunde Thomas and the allegations of unethical conduct require the bank’s board to conduct a review of what transpired, any violations of our code of ethics and the adequacy of this code of ethics. “This is already underway. During the period of the review, the managing director has volunteered to proceed on leave. This will guarantee the sanctity of the review process. “We enjoin all our stakeholders to bear with us as we conduct this review and to plea...

The Comptroller-General of the Nigeria Immigration Service, Muhammed Babandede, has warned that foreign visitors, who failed to present their COVID-19 test certificates on arrival in the country, will have their visas revoked. The immigration service boss said he has the powers as enshrined in the Immigration Act to revoke visas and confiscate offenders’ passports, stressing that the next visa for global travel is the COVID-19 certificate. Speaking at the weekly briefing of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 in Abuja on Tuesday, Babandede said the 100 travellers under a travel ban for flouting the mandatory seven-day post-arrival COVID-19 polymerase chain reaction test could not obtain fresh passports or compromise the NIS officers, adding that the system was automated and cannot be bypassed or manipulated. Babandede stated, “Public health is a big issue in the country and based on that directives, we have complied by blocking 100 passports from travelling, which means, ...

Indian police In separate raids after the first day of the year, a Nigerian and two Ugandans were arrested in Mumbai and Maharashtra states of India for having hard drugs. The Times of India reports that the unnamed Nigerian male was picked up with 204gm of cocaine valued at Rs 51 lakh (N26.6m). Indian police According to the report, the police anti-narcotic cell in the subcontinent’s largest city laid an ambush for the Nigerian following a tip-off. In the Nalasopara district of Maharashtra on the other hand, two Ugandan women aged 27 and 35 were held for carrying 220 gm of mephedrone. The news outlet said police officials in the district released a statement explaining that the women were moving suspiciously and detained for questioning as a result. CRIME Drugs Police News AddThis :  Original Author :  SaharaReporters, New York Disable advertisements :  from 24HRSNEWS via 24HRSNEWS from EDUPEDIA247https://ift.tt/3nju4W3 via EDUPEDIA

Justice Lateefa A. Okunnu of the Lagos State High Court sitting in Ikeja, on Tuesday, January 5, 2021, convicted and sentenced Okey Nwosu, a former Managing Director, Finbank Plc, to three years imprisonment for over 10m fraud. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, had arraigned Nwosu alongside Dayo Famuroti, Agnes Ebubedike and Danjuma Ocholi on a 26-count amended charge bordering on stealing and illegal conversion to the tune of N10,934,704,402. The defendants, who perpetrated the fraud while they were directors of the bank, pleaded not guilty to the charge preferred against them, thereby leading to their full trial. In the course of the trial, the prosecution counsel, Rotimi Jacobs , SAN, called witnesses and also tendered several documents that were admitted in evidence against the defendants. Delivering her judgment, the Judge found the defendants guilty and sentenced the first and second defendants, Nwosu and Famoroti, to three years imprisonment each. T...