Last month, the contours of Uganda’s 2021 elections began to take shape, and they promise to meld longstanding problems with new constraints. The upcoming polls were always going to be consequential.  President Yoweri Museveni has been in office since 1986, and a new generation of Ugandans has been calling for political change. But the global pandemic has added another layer of complexity to the outlook for the country, and right now, Uganda seems on track to be another case in which democratic legitimacy will suffer in the era of COVID-19....

By John Okiyi Kalu According to scientists, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is the strain of coronavirus that causes coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), the respiratory illness responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic. In our environment, this highly contagious virus, when in a human host, is known simply as the coronavirus. While many are aware of the above, it appears not many understand the emphasis on "severe" and "acute" associated with this and other related respiratory diseases, hence, they lose their lives or that of their loved ones. Describing something...

Justice Ibrahim Watilat of the Federal High Court, Abeokuta, Ogun State has sentenced one Festus Gbenga Ajayi, to one year imprisonment for internet fraud. The convict was prosecuted by the Ibadan Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC on one-count charge of criminal impersonation, having been arrested on October, 2019 in a raid conducted in his hideout in Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State. Investigations conducted by the Commission linked him to series of internet-related frauds which formed the ground for his initial arraignment on eight-count charges, bordering on criminal...

The Court of Appeal sitting in Awka, Anambra State on Friday, July 17, 2020 added additional two years to the five years prison term, (without option of fine) handed to 39-year-old convict, Ikenna Stanislaus Ugwunna by Justice Chudi Nwankwor of Anambra State High Court, Ogidi. The convict had approached the appellate court for reprieve, but got additional jail term, as the court held that the trial court did not have the discretion to prescribe the five year jail term it sentenced the convict for an offence the law stipulates seven...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Benue Zonal Office, on Monday, July 20, 2020 arraigned the duo of Victor Gabriel Charles and John Aboyi Omaku before Justice Moris Ikpambese of the Benue State High Court, Makurdi over alleged conspiracy and misappropriation of pension funds to the tune of N19million. Charles, a former vice chairman, Nigerian Union of Pensioners, (NUP), and Omaku, former Branch Chairman of the union, Benue State Chapter, were arraigned on two-count charges of fraud to which they pleaded not guilty. Count one of the charge read:...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Lagos Zonal Office, on Monday, July 20, 2020 arraigned nine suspected Illegal oil dealers and a Vessel, M. V. Laida, before Justice Muslim S. Hassan of the Federal High Court, sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos on three-count charges bordering on conspiracy and illegal dealing in  351 metric tonnes of Automative Gas Oil, (AGO). The defendants: Stephen John  Degbe;  Bode  Shofela;  Emmanuel Esalet;  Aderibigbe Jeje;  Peter  Atijere  Ekpe;  Dayang Nantok  Ibrahim;  Adewunmi Oguntifa, Samuel Alabi  were arrested alongside the vessel by the Nigeria Navy and...

Nkechi Mercy Ikogwe, Elites Finance Investment Limited and Efinc Global Investment Limited  have been arraigned by the Port Harcourt Zonal office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, before Justice E. A. Obile of the Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State on a three count charge bordering on Conspiracy and Obtaining Money by false Pretence contrary to Section 1(1) (a) of the Advance Fee Fraud and Other Fraud Related Offences Act No. 14, 2006  and punishable under Section 1 (3) of the same Act. The defendants...

In compliance with its succession policy, the board of Fidelity Bank Plc has announced that Mrs Nneka Onyeali-Ikpe will replace the current Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of the bank, Mr Nnamdi Okonkwo, when the latter retires at the end of this year. Mr Okonkwo is expected to leave the position on December 31, 2020, upon completion of his contract tenure and in line with the bank’s governance policies. To fill the post, the board has approved the appointment of the present Executive Director of Fidelity Bank in charge of Lagos...

Apparently aggrieved by a myriad of problems ranging from denial of certain accrued rights as retired Nigerian Armed Forces personnel, the Coalition of Concerned Veterans (CCV) has threatened to embark on a peaceful nationwide protest any time soon to force the authorities to hearken to their voice. In a statement issued on Friday by CCV spokespersons; Dr. Roy Oamen Okhidievbie and Sedisyne Abiodun Durowaiye-Herberts, the Veterans said they did not have choice but to embark on the protest as efforts made over time to negotiate and deliberate on the infringement...

As the Covid-19 pandemic ravaging the world economy does not seem to abate anytime soon, the Edo State Government has commenced Online and Television broadcast of its skill development programmes for the youth. The programme is also aimed at job creation strategies, entrepreneurship and personal development, among others, as part of efforts to equip the teeming youth with new skill set to function optimally in the wake of the coronavirus. Managing Director, EdoJobs, Mrs. Ukinebo Dare, who disclosed this in a chat with journalists in Benin City on Monday, said...