Folake Sokoya The operatives of Rapid Response Squad of the Lagos State Police Command last week, rescued two teenagers fleeing the Abuja abodes of their parents and re-united them with the parents on Friday. The teenagers, Chidubem Amaechi, 13 and Chinedu Onyebuchi, 13 were rescued by the RRS operatives on Monday morning after alighting from an Abuja bus at Ojodu …

The Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) has ordered Ethiopian Airlines (ET) to stop forthwith the illegal collection of unauthorised charges. These unauthorised charges referred to as Refundable Deportation Fee is put at between $75 (Seventy five dollars) and $150 (One Hundred and Fifty US dollars). According to a statement signed by NCAA’s General Manager (Public Relations), Sam Adurogboye, all South …

International Rating Agency, Standard and Poor’s (S&P) assigned its ‘B’ long term and ‘B’ short term global scale counterparty credit ratings to the United Bank for Africa Plc (UBA). These ratings on the pan African financial institution, United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc, are at par with S&P ratings on the Nigerian Sovereign. S&P’s ‘B’ rating is the highest rating …

The Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria says its Ethics and Professionalism Division received 136 petitions with claims that amounted to N27.6bn from bank customers in 2016. The institute made this known in its 2016 Annual Reports and Accounts signed by the Registrar, Mr Seye Awojobi. The report was released on Saturday in Lagos. It said that 79 cases were …

Folake Sokoya To genuinely achieve a revival of Ogun State, the mission requires a grand coalition of elements from PDP, APC and other parties. Therefore it is imperative to build this coalition by embracing all people of like minds.” These were the words of Hon. Oladipupo Adebutu, Member, House of Representatives and Chairman, House Committee on Rural Development while reacting …

50-year-old man, Muritala Olaniyan, on Friday pleaded guilty to stealing his neighbour’s mobile phone while buying goods from his shop. Olaniyan admitted before a Surulere Chief magistrates’ Court in Lagos that he stole the Samsung phone from Mr Godwin Enoch at 9a.m. on May 12 at Sari Iganmu, Lagos. The prosecutor, Sgt. Christopher Okoliko, had told the court that the …

Abubakari Aliu, 32, who allegedly chased a married woman working in her farm with a machete, overpowered and forcibly had sex with her has ben arrested by the police at Agogo. He reportedly fled after committing the alleged crime and left the 19-year-old victim to her fate in the bush. The incident happened in the Ashanti Region of Ghana. According to …

The Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr Babatunde Fashola, has said that the rehabilitation of access roads at Apapa Port in Lagos State was a priority project of the Federal Government. Fashola told newsmen on Friday in Abuja that work would soon commence on the project. He appealed to residents of Apapa and its environs affected by the deplorable …

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Dangote Flour Plc has explained its inability to declare dividend to shareholders, attributing it to huge losses the company incurred in the cause of its operations in the last four years. Addressing shareholders at the company’s 11th Annual General Meeting (AGM) on Friday, the Chairman, Asue Ighodalo said the flour making company which change from Tiger Branded Consumer Goods Plc …