Beyond the Headlines
A high court sitting in Akure, the Ondo state capital, has granted a garnishee order directing the Central Bank of Nigeria(CBN) to freeze the account of Polaris Bank over a judgment debt of N2.16 billion. A garnishee order is one of the options open to a judgment creditor to enforce a judgment that has […]
Access Holdings says it will not continue with its proposed acquisition of a controlling stake in Sidian Bank Limited, headquartered in Kenya. The financial institution made this known on Thursday in a corporate filing signed by Sunday Ekwochi, its company secretary. In June 2022, Access Holdings entered into an agreement to acquire the entire […]
The supreme court has dismissed an appeal by the family of Sani Abacha seeking to stop the federal government from reopening criminal forfeiture proceedings against the former head of state. Delivering judgment on Friday, the apex court, led by Emmanuel Agim, upheld the judgments of both the federal high court and the court of […]
Anambra State Governor, Professor Chukwuma Soludo, is now the National Leader of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA). Soludo, the third in the line of succession, was elected on Friday during a meeting of the National Executive Committee (NEC) of the party in Awka, the Anambra State capital, through a unanimous voice vote. The […]
The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited on Friday announced the discovery of oil in Nasarawa State and said it was set to drill the first foot of an oil well in the Northern state. It said the discovery was in continuation of its oil exploration activities in the country’s inland basins, adding that it […]
The Peoples Democratic Party has said the February 25th date for Presidential and National Assembly Elections remains sacrosanct. It said attempts by the ruling All Progressives Congress to orchestrate violence to cause a constitutional crisis in order to cling to power will fail. National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Hon. Debo Ologunagba, said this […]
A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Adamu Garba has likened Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, to Boko Haram’s late founder, Mohammed Yusuf. Garba also said Kanu is not different from Boko Haram leader, Abubakar Shekau. He also said Ekpa, the acclaimed disciple of Kanu should not […]
The Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello, Friday said that he alongside other members of the All Progressives Congress, APC, will joyfully escort the party’s Presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu to the Presidential Villa, Abuja on May 29. Governor Bello described the APC’s presidential candidate as the president in waiting. The Kogi State chief executive […]
A 50-year-old man, Ojo Ogundeji, has reportedly set himself ablaze inside his father’s house in Ondo town, Ondo State. It was gathered that the man deliberately locked himself in a room inside the house located in the Odojomu Oloruntedo area of the town before he committed the act. The reason the man killed himself […]
A chief magistrate court in Abuja has terminated the criminal suit filed against Umo Eno, governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Akwa Ibom state. At the court session on Friday, Emmanuel Iyanna, the presiding chief magistrate, said following an affidavit of urgency filed by the defendant(Eno) on Monday, and which was […]
