The National Union of Food, Beverages and Tobacco Employees (NUFBTE) has appealed to the National Assembly to intervene on its behalf to avert further increase of excise duties on carbonated drinks. The union made the appeal in a letter signed by Mr Lateef Oyelekan and Mr Mike Olanrewaju, its National …

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, received with shock, report of the ruling by Justice Chizoba Oji of a High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) in Maitama, Abuja committing the Executive Chairman for contempt over the failure to comply with a November 21st, 2018 order of the …

LASTMA General Manager, Bolaji Oreagba A police inspector, Ben Thompson, and an official of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority, Caleb Akerele, have been hospitalised after they were allegedly assaulted by two bus drivers who were dressed in military camouflage along the Eko Bridge. The drivers were reportedly conveying passengers …

The Chijioke Edeoga Campaign Organisation has reacted to the ruling of a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja on Wednesday which ordered a re-run of the Labour Party’s governorship primaries in Enugu State. Barr Edeoga is the party’s governorship standard-bearer ahead of the 2023 general elections. He contested the guber …

American rapper, Curtis ’50 cent’ Jackson, announced late Wednesday that he plans to release a television series inspired by Nigerian fraudster, Hushpuppi, who was jailed for 11 years in the U.S. for his role in a conspiracy to launder millions of dollars via online scams. Ramon Olorunwa Abbas, popularly known …

CBA Foundation, a Lagos-based Not for Profit organization, has announced that Walk4Hope, its yearly five-kilometer-long walk charity sensitization event will take-off at Eko Hotel & Suites, Victoria Island on Saturday, November 12, 2022. Since January 2016, Walk4Hope has been the highlight of a series of activities embarked by the CBA …

Ayu urged other PDP stakeholders to work together ahead of the 2023 presidential election. Iyorchia Ayu, embattled National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has bragged that the party will win the 2023 presidential election despite the opposition of the five disgruntled governors. Ayu promised that the PDP’s crisis …

Buhari appointed him as board chairman of the corporation in September 2021 but he was replaced by Margaret Chuba Okadigbo in January. Senator Ifeanyi Godwin Araraume, a former senator representing Imo North, has sued President Muhammadu Buhari. The former lawmaker is challenging his removal as a non-executive Chairman of the …

  Dangote Industries Limited sustained efforts at providing basic infrastructure through various intervention projects have received the commendation of the Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI). President of the LCCI, Dr. Micheal Olawale-Cole in his remarks yesterday at Dangote Group’s Special day at the ongoing Lagos International Trade Fair …

The attention of our client, Stanbic IBTC Bank PLC (“our client/Stanbic”) has been drawn to a press release published on page 28 of The Guardian Newspaper of Wednesday, 9th November 2022 by a faceless “Concerned Downstream Oil & Gas Industry Stakeholders” and captioned “Stanbic IBTC Bank Contempt and Deliberate Sabotage of Judicial Process”. The …