The Civil Liberties Organisation in Lagos State has added its voice to calls on President Muhammadu Buhari to declare a national emergency on security The Lagos State Branch of the CLO made the call after an emergency General Meeting, stressing that its decision was informed by the current security situation in Nigeria. The CLO statement was jointly…
The Lagos State Special Offences Court has heard how a former Secretary of the State Scholarship Board, Stephen Oshinowo, allegedly diverted the sum of one hundred and twenty-seven million naira. The revelation was made by an investigator with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Monday Moley, after Oshinowo was arraigned on an amended eight counts on criminal…
The Lagos State Judicial Panel of Inquiry on Restitution for victims of abuses by SARS returned to work today and took a decision to summon the Inspector General of Police. The Panel wants IGP Mohammed Adamu to appear in connection to a petition by seventy-six-year-old Adewale Adewuyi. The petitioner claimed that the police seized his twenty-six acres…
The libel trial of Lagos-based social critic, Agba Jalingo, by a Cross River State High Court in Calabar has failed to make progress. This is because JALINGO’s accusers; the Cross River Microfinance Bank Limited, failed to produce their witness to testify in court. Lasgidi FM News Desk gathered that the claimants’ lawyer informed the Court that their…
A Federal High Court in Abuja has ordered the Central Bank of Nigeria to unfreeze the bank accounts of 20 EndSARS protesters. Justice Ahmed Mohammed gave the order after counsel to the CBN and the legal representative of the protesters agreed to settle out of court. Meanwhile; Rinuola Oduala; who is one of the EndSARS protesters whose…
The trial of former National Security Adviser, retired Colonel Sambo Dasuki, for alleged money laundering, has again been adjourned to April 13, 2021. Dasuki and four others are facing on a thirty-two-count charge of money laundering and criminal breach of trust to the tune of twenty-nine billion naira. However, Justice H. Bab of the Federal Capital Territory…