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Director of Academic Staff Training Development, Tertiary Education Trust Fund, Mohammed Suleiman, says no fewer than 762 scholars have benefited from FG government research support amounting to about N3.3bn across Gombe tertiary institutions. The beneficiaries are from four schools namely, College of Education (Technical), Federal University Kashere, Gombe State University and Gombe State College of Education, Billiri. Suleiman stated this on Wednesday during a hearing on training/utilisation of Staff Intervention Programme provisions at Gombe State University, led by board chairman Kashim Imam. He explained, “Before coming we sent out documents to all the beneficiary institutions in this country that will…

*Lumumba, Komolafe, Utomi, Adegboruwa bemoan spate of impunity Nobelist, Professor Wole Soyinka, has said every Nigerian should take responsibility for allowing impunity thrive in the country. According to him, Nigerians are paying for not being able to protest and denounce impunity in the country, Soyinka stated this in his remarks at the 24th edition of the Wole Soyinka Lecture Series organized by the National Association of Seadogs (Pyrates Confraternity) held via zoom with the theme National Conference Against Impunity. Soyinka noted that all the dire events that had overtaken and overwhelmed Nigeria were traceable to impunity. He pointed out that…

The United States has requested for pre-trial detention of suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police, Mr Abba Kyari, according to papers filed at the United State District Court for the Central District of California The court papers sighted by THISDAY requested a pre-trial detention of Kyari. The court papers filed April 29, 2021 were signed by Acting US Attorney, Tracy Wilkinson and two other officials. It read: “Plantiff, United States of America, by and through its court of records hereby requests detention of defendant (Abba Kyari) and gives notice of the following factors: “Pre-trial detention requested (S 3142(e)) because no condition…

The Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami (SAN), has said that the federal government is committed to the finalization of the boundary demarcation between Nigeria and Cameroon. Malami stated this while receiving the Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General for West Africa and Sahel, Mahamat Annadif, who paid him a courtesy call on Tuesday. In a statement made available to journalists by the AGF’s media aide, Dr Umar Gwandu, on Wednesday, the minister said: “I wish to assure you that the Nigerian delegation is confident that under your leadership, the Cameroon-Nigeria Mixed Commission…

Justice Obiora Egwuatu of the Federal High Court, Abuja, on Wednesday granted bail to 12 Sunday Igboho’s associates held in its custody since July 2, 2021. Justice Egwuatu admitted the applicants to bail. The judge, who held that there is no charge against the applicants, however, admitted four of the applicant’s bail in the sum of N10 million each with two sureties in like sum, while the remaining eight were granted bail in the sum of N5 million with one surety each. The four applicants who were granted N10 million bail were Amudat Babatunde, Okoyemi Tajudeen, Abideen Shittu and Jamiu…

The Chief Judge of the Federal High Court, Abuja, Justice John Tsoho, on Tuesday, ordered the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission ( EFCC) to unfreeze bank accounts belonging to the founder of Daar Communications Plc, Chief Raymond Dokpesi. The commission had frozen the accounts of Dokpesi owing to his trial in an alleged N2.1 billion fraud said to have been illegally received from former President Jonathan’s National Security Adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki (rtd). However, following the voiding of the charges by the Court of Appeal, the media mogul had approached the Federal High Court to unfreeze the affected bank accounts.…

The upper legislative chamber has uncovered irregularities in the N1.1trillion invested in 2015 by the federal government in Crown Agents Bank and some other financial institutions in the country. Crown Agents Bank is a United Kingdom (UK) regulated provider of wholesale Foreign Exchange and cross-border payment services connected across frontier and emerging markets. The Senate, in the 2015 Auditor-General of the Federation’s (AuGF) report adopted recently before proceeding on annual recess, accused the Accountant General of the Federation (AGF) of failing to present shares certificate to authenticate the genuineness of Federal government investments in Crown Agents Bank and financial institutions…

Simone Biles made her long-awaited return to the Olympic Games on Tuesday, taking bronze in the beam final won by Chinese teenager Guan Chenchen at the Ariake Gymnastics Centre. It was the US superstar’s first taste of competition in Tokyo since dramatically standing down during the women’s team final last week, struggling with the “twisties”, a condition meaning gymnasts lose the ability to orientate themselves in mid-air. It was Biles’ seventh Olympic medal, equalling Shannon Miller’s record for an American gymnast. The four-time gold medallist from the Rio Games received a huge cheer from her US teammates when she entered…

Nigeria’s first medalist at the ongoing Tokyo Olympics Ese Brume has said she intends to wear her bronze medal on the general overseer of Living Faith Church Worldwide Bishop David Oyedepo. Brume disclosed her plans to celebrate after winning the bronze medal in the women’s long jump event in the early hours of Tuesday. “I plan to go to Canaan-Land to wear it (Bronze medal) on Bishop David Oyedepo,” Brume told Making of Champions. The Nigerian Olympian leapt 6.97 metres with her very first jump to claim bronze behind second-placed Brittany Reese of the United States and gold medallist Malaika Mihambo of…

Human rights lawyer and activist, Femi Falana (SAN), has warned the federal government to respect the rule of law and international human rights law in handling the cases of secessionists, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu and Chief Sunday Adeyemo popularly known as Sunday Igboho. Falana, who disclosed this yesterday at the Geneva Refugee Convention Symposium to mark it 70 years of existence organised by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Lagos, noted Kenya and Nigeria have an extradition treaty, adding that what would have been done was to go court and bring back the individual, “of course that was…