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Point News247 reports that the number of students across Lagos State expected to gain admission into tertiary institutions, are expected to increase beginning from 2022, following the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) inclusion of the two newly established public varsities into lists of schools open to provide tertiary education in the country. The two new tertiary institutions, which increased the number of varsities to three in the state, were the Lagos State University of Science and Technology (LASUST), Ikorodu, and the Lagos State University of Education (LASUED), Ijanikin. A check by “The Guild” further revealed that both institutions have…

Point News247 reports that the Lagos Coroner Court is continuing to unravel the cause of death of Sylvester Oromoni Jnr. The Court on Monday, heard that the first legal advice by the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) indicted some staff members of Dowen College, Lekki. While giving evidence before Magistrate Mikhail Kadiri, Chief Superintendent of Police Bamidele Olusegun said a report he received from the DPP dated December 30, 2021 called “interim legal advice”, recommended that the officials be prosecuted for negligence. Olusegun spoke while being cross-examined by Mr. Femi Falana, SAN, in the ongoing inquest into the death of…

Point News247 reports that the planned arraignment of former Imo State Governor, Anayo Rochas Okorocha, on Tuesday, at the Federal High Court in Abuja, on N2.9bn corruption was stalled. Okorocha, currently a Senator representing Imo West in the Senate, was absent in court and was also not represented by any legal practitioner.The development scuttled the arraignment. However, six other defendants billed to be arraigned along with him on 17-count corruption charges were in court, along with their lawyers. When the matter was mentioned on Tuesday, counsel to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Mr Cosmos Ugwu told Justice Inyang…

Chairman of the Senate Committee on Special Duties, Senator Yusuf Abubakar Yusuf, All Progressives Congress, APC, Taraba Central has called on the Federal Government to ensure that spouses, children, siblings, parents and all other beneficiaries of corruption proceeds must be punished along side the major actor in the crime. Point News247 reports that Yusuf made this disclosure while speaking on the of case against the Deputy Commissioner of Police and erstwhile head of the Nigerian Police Intelligence Response Team, Abba Kyari. Speaking with journalists in Abuja, Senator Yusuf called for the immediate creation of an agency that would be saddled…

Point News247 reports that Comptroller A. A. Umar has assumed duty as the substantive Customs Area Controller (CAC) of Nigeria Customs Service, Western Marine Command (WMC). Umar took over from Deputy Comptroller E.O Ochiba on Monday. Comptroller Umar was among the Comptrollers who were recently redeployed on the 8 February 2022 by the Comptroller General of Customs, Col. Hameed Ibrahim Ali (Rtd). Spokesman of the command, ASCI Isah Sulaiman disclosed in a statement made available to newsmen. During a brief handing over ceremony at the WMC Headquarters Ibafon-Apapa, Lagos, the outgoing Ag. CAC welcomed and congratulated the substantive Area Controller…

Nigeria’s House of Representatives Public Accounts Committee has summoned the heads of three Federal Government agencies over the loss of billions of naira in revenue from companies operating in the oil and gas free zones, as contained in the audit queries issued by the Office of the Auditor-General for the Federation (AuGF). Point News247 reports that the affected agencies included the Bureau for Public Enterprises (BPE), Nigeria Oil and Gas Free Zone Authority (NOGFZA), and Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON). It also directed its clerk to publish the said audit queries from the office against defaulting agencies in three national…

A bill for a law to prohibit open grazing of cattle and other livestock in Edo State passed through the second reading on the floor of the House of Assembly on Monday. Point News247 reports that the Majority Leader of the house, Henry Okhuarobo, who led the debate for the passage of the bill, said it seeks to provide solution to the incessant farmers-herders clashes in the state. Okhuarobo said the bill also seeks to introduce modern methods of ranching. According to him, the bill, if passed, will create a conducive environment for farmers to engage in agricultural activities and…

The Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited started its week with an assurance to Nigerians that the distribution of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) would soon normalise after it recalled the bad product imported into the country last week. Point News247 reports that the NNPC Group Executive Director (GED) Downstream, Adetunji Adeyemi, gave the assurance at a briefing in Abuja, while concerted efforts were being made to end the challenges in the supply of petrol. Mr Adeyemi stated that the company was expecting over 2.3 billion litres of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) in the country by the end of February and…

Point News247 reports that Abba Kyari, the suspended super cop arrested over drug dealings, has been denied bail by Justice Inyang of the Federal High Court, Abuja. Kyari had requested for his release from the custody of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA). The judge rather ordered that Kyari put the Federal Government on notice of the existence of the suit he instituted against it. The suspended DCP had taken the Federal Government before the court, challenging his continued detention by the agency. In the suit marked FHC/ABJ/CS/182/22, Kyari sought an order of the court to immediately release him…

Point News247 reports that the National Leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, has declared that he is ready to get dirty in the struggle to emerge next Nigerian President. The 2023 presidential aspirant on the platform of APC, stated this on Sunday during a consultation with the Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi and the Olubadan-designate, Oba Lekan Balogun, seeking their various blessings. The Asiwaju vowed that no other contender would intimidate him out of the race, stressing that he is out to be President Muhammadu Buhari’s successor come 2023. His words: “No amount of intimidation…