The Petroleum Products Marketing Company, a subsidiary of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, has increased the ex-depot price of Premium Motor Spirit, also known as petrol, to N151.56 per litre from N138.62 per litre.
This was disclosed in an internal memo from Ibadan depot to all stakeholders dated September 2, 2020 and signed by D.O Abalaka.
The ex-depot price is the price at which the product is sold to marketers at the depots.
An Ado-Ekiti Chief Magistrate Court on Wednesday, remanded a 50-year-old man, Usman Tajudeen, at the Correctional Centre in Ado-Ekiti for allegedly defiling a four-year-old girl.
The Chief Magistrate, Adefumike Anoma, who did not take the plea of Tajudeen, ordered that the case file should be sent to the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) for advice.
Anoma adjourned the case until Sept.18 for mention.
The defendant, whose address was not provided, is facing a count charge of defilement.
Earlier, the Prosecutor, Monica Ikebuilo, told the court that the defendant committed the offence on Aug.21 at Ikere-Ekiti.
Ikebuilo said that the defendant lured the girl to his room and defiled her.
The prosecutor had told the court to remand the defendant in a correctional center pending advice from the DPP.
Customary Court in Mapo, Ibadan, on Wednesday adjourned indefinitely hearing in a divorce suit filed by a man, Gafar Ololeke, seeking the dissolution of his 14-year-old marriage to wife, Nafisat.
The President of the Court, Ademola Odunade, adjourned the matter in order for the couple’s child to get the required treatment.
Odunade blamed the petitioner for abandoning the child and the wife.
Ololeke petitioned the court alleging that that his wife had tarnished his father’s name in public.
In her response, Nafisat, prayed the court to dismiss her husband‘s claims because she still loves him.
The police on Tuesday arraigned two men before an Ikeja Magistrate Court on a three-count charge bordering on conspiracy, house-breaking and unlawful possession of fire arms.
The accused persons: Azubike Egweaka, 22, and Kojo Michael, 31, standing trial before Magistrate O. A. Olayinka, for robbing one Tope Okeowo of her property worth N1.5 million, all denied committing the offenses.
The prosecutor, Ezekiel Ayorinde, told the court that the defendants committed the offenses on June 10 at More Care area of Seme Border, Badagry.
He said that the defendants broke into the apartment of Okeowo and carted away her property.
Ayorinde said, the offenses contravened the provisions of Sections 299, 309, 330 and 411 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015.
Olayinka granted the defendants bail in the sum of N500,000 each with two sureties each in like sum.
She directed the police to send the case file of the second defendant, Michael, who was found in possession of a gun, to the State Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) for advice.
The magistrate adjourned the case until October 6 for mention.
Former Governor of Ekiti, Chief Segun Oni has congratulated the newly elected State Working Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). He urge them to unite and strengthen the party through fellowship building.
Oni in a statement made available to the Press by the Director-General of Atunse Ekiti , Dr. Ifeoluwa Arowosoge, said: I wish to wholeheartedly congratulate the new executives of our great party who have just emerged from a peaceful and popular Congress conducted on Saturday, 29th August, 2020, in the state capital, Ado-Ekiti.
“Let me use this opportunity to felicitate with all our party members, especially the Local Government and Ward Executives, who had earlier emerged from the local congresses organized across the state, for displaying zeal, steadfastness and resilience.
“Permit me to thank all our leaders in the PDP, most especially, His Excellency, former Governor Ayodele Fayose, for their dedication and commitment to the sustenance and development of our party.
“As we bask in the euphoria of this new chapter in Ekiti State PDP, I wish to urge Chief Bisi Kolawole led executive to work steadfastly, in uniting the party and pragmatically, in building fellowships among members.
“I want to assure the party of my support to the new leadership, and most importantly, I wish to urge everyone to contribute his or her quota to the development of the party,” he said.
Chief Oni appeals to all members of the PDP from the other side to please shield their sword and allow all of us to come together as a family so as to achieve victory together for the party. This, he said, is without prejudice to the pending court case. He believes we must all strive to find a middle way out of this quagmire as members of the same political family. Chief Oni also directs all his supporters not to throw any tantrum on any leader or member of PDP under any circumstance whatsoever in any media and to completely ignore any reaction from APC unless it is absolutely necessary to respond.
An Igbosere High Court in Lagos has declined to stop a N10million lawsuit filed by a Nigerian lawyer, Ogedi Ogu, against the University of Oxford, England.
Justice I.O. Harrison dismissed the varsity’s preliminary objection filed by its counsel Funke Adekoya (SAN).
Ogu is alleging that the words “mortgagee’’ and “mortgagor” were wrongly defined in the Oxford Dictionary, published by Oxford University Press.
He claimed that he was embarrassed and suffered a loss of reputation as a lawyer when he relied on the definitions of the words in the Oxford Dictionary to offer legal advice to a professional colleague.
He said the professional colleague later pointed out to him that the words were wrongly defined in Oxford Dictionary and since then all his professional colleagues stopped seeking legal advice from him.
Ogu asked the court to order the University of Oxford and Oxford University Press to pay him N10m in damages.
But Adekoya prayed the court to dismiss the suit for being incompetent.
She contended that Ogu did not comply with Section 97 of the Sheriff and Civil Process Act in issuing and serving his writ of summons.
She described the writ as incurably defective, adding that it was liable to be set aside.
The SAN further contended that Oxford University Press, which was joined as 2nd defendant, was a non-juristic entity, which could not be sued because it was only a department under the University of Oxford.
But in a June 30, 2020 ruling, seen by newsmen yesterday, Justice Harrison partly disagreed with Adekoya and dismissed one leg of the preliminary objection.
Contrary to Adekoya’s contention, Harrison said the writ was validly issued and service was lawful and regular.
However, the judge upheld the SAN’s submission that Oxford University Press was not a juristic entity and struck its name out from the suit.
Ogu, in his suit, claimed that Oxford Dictionary defined the word “mortgagee’’ as the borrower in a mortgage transaction; and “mortgagor’’ as the lender.
He said this was contrary to the definition of “mortgagee” as lender and “mortgagor” as borrower in many other dictionaries.
The lawyer said when he wrote to the University of Oxford to complain; the university admitted the error but refused to admit liability.
According to him, the university told him that its dictionaries were made available as a reference tool only; that they were never held out by OUP as being an alternative to seeking independent legal or financial advice, and therefore could not take responsibility for an individual’s decision to use them as such.
The Senate said on Tuesday that none of its members received N20m COVID-19 palliative from the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC).
The Director of Projects, Interim Management Committee of the NDDC, Cairo Ojougboh, had alleged in a recent newspaper interview that the agency gave N20m to each senator while each of the House of Representatives member collected N15m as palliative.
But the Spokesperson for the Senate, Ajibola Basiru, denied Ojougboh’s claims in a statement on Tuesday.
Basiru challenged Ojougboh to either release the full list of the lawmakers who benefited from the palliative or tender a public apology immediately.
The Senate said on Tuesday that none of its members received N20m COVID-19 palliative from the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC).
The Director of Projects, Interim Management Committee of the NDDC, Cairo Ojougboh, had alleged in a recent newspaper interview that the agency gave N20m to each senator while each of the House of Representatives member collected N15m as palliative.
But the Spokesperson for the Senate, Ajibola Basiru, denied Ojougboh’s claims in a statement on Tuesday.
Basiru challenged Ojougboh to either release the full list of the lawmakers who benefited from the palliative or tender a public apology immediately.
A 60-year-old man, Ibrahim Ibuoye, has appeared before an Ogun State Magistrate Court sitting in Ota for alleged trespassing on the farmland of former President Olusegun Obasanjo in Ota.
Ibuoye, who was arraigned on four counts bordering on the breach of the peace, forceful entry, causing damages and conspiracy, pleaded not guilty to the charges.
The police prosecutor, Rosemary Samson, told the court that the defendant and others at large committed the offenses on August 26, 2020, at the Obasanjo Farm Limited, Ota.
Samson said the defendant and his accomplices were armed with weapons and allegedly conspired among themselves and forced their way into the farm, thereby conducting themselves in a manner likely to cause a breach of the peace.
She also alleged that the defendant damaged a Honda Accord car belonging to one Kazeem Ajiboye.
The prosecutor added that the offenses contravened sections 81, 390(9), 451 and 517 of the Criminal Code, Laws of Ogun State, 2006.
Magistrate B. S. Abdulsalam admitted the defendant to bail in the sum of N500,000 with two sureties in like sum.
Abdulsalam ordered that the sureties must reside within the court’s jurisdiction and be gainfully employed with evidence of tax payment to the Ogun State Government.
The magistrate also directed that the sureties must have landed property within the jurisdiction of the court as part of the bail conditions.
The case was adjourned till September 14, 2020, for hearing.
The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC), a Lagos-based Muslim rights group, has said the Federal Government should confirm the authenticity of a purported list of successful candidates for the 2020/2021 Federal Government scholarship, which has only a few northerners on it.
The clarification was demanded by Professor Ishaq Akintola, Director of MURIC, in a statement on Wednesday.
According to the organisation, the list of successful candidates for the 2020/2021 Federal Government scholarship, which has gone viral, revealed that candidates from southern Nigeria were 70 while those from northern Nigeria were 21.
MURIC echoed the sentiments of the individual it described as “a prominent Nigerian citizen in the diaspora”, who brought to the said list to the attention of Adamu Adamu, Minister of Education, as an “anti-north” list.
The organisation, therefore, said the Federal Government should respond and clarify the individual’s concerns.
The statement read: “It had better not be true. The entire nineteen (19) Northern states have just twenty-one (21) successful candidates while the seventeen (17) Southern states have seventy candidates (70). This list has greatly short-changed the North. What criteria was used to generate this anti-North list?
“Worse still, there is only one Muslim among the 13 successful candidates from North Central. This is unacceptable. Such an exercise can only be designed for the purpose of Christianising the North. It is as diabolical as it is Islamophobic. If confirmed, it means another cunny move to Christianise Nigeria has just been uncovered.
“Although we suspect that this list may be another fake news and the handiwork of enemies of peace, yet the Federal Government must speak up on it before it causes further damage to the already thin veneer of mutual confidence in the North-South dichotomy as well as the fragile Christian/Muslim relationship in the country.
“Not only that, it has been used as a tool for playing tortuous religious politics particularly the preference for picking minority Christians from predominantly Muslim areas. This could only have been intended to further deepen ignorance and poverty among the Muslims while the infinitesimally small Christian group in the North is unjustly lifted into the circle of elites and the bourgeoisie.
“It is rather unfortunate that while we consistently lay emphasis on the need for fair distribution of the dividends of democracy among all groups, some unpatriotic elements are determined to continue exhibiting gymnastic religiousity in their official capacities.
“In spite of recent attempts to smear our image in order to blackmail us into silence, MURIC will not keep quiet in the face of elite tyranny. We will not kowtow to the poohpooh of shenanigans masquerading as regional heroes. We will never accept discrimination against any tribe. We will continue to stand for justice, fairness and equity no matter whose ox is gored. Stability, peace and prosperity in every part of Nigeria is the major concern of the Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC).”
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