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The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) has announced sanctions against four legal practitioners found guilty of various professional misconducts. The sanctions were announced in legal notices issued by the Legal Practitioners Disciplinary Committee (LPDC) on August 13, 2024. NBA's spokesperson, Akorede Habeeb Lawal, revealed in a statement on X that the LPDC found the lawyers guilty…
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The Legal Practitioners Disciplinary Committee (LPDC) has suspended a lawyer, Olumide Tayo-Lawal from carrying on the trade or business of legal practice for a period of five years over professional misconduct. A five-man panel of the LPDC comprising Justices Dr. Ishaq Bello, Life Bencher; (Chairman) and Aisha Bashir Aliyu, CJ Nasarawa, Bencher as well as…

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The Ogun Government on Thursday released the list of members of non-statutory boards recently appointed by Gov. Dapo Abiodun to run the affairs of boards and agencies in the state. This is contained in a statement in Abeokuta by the Special Adviser, Media and Strategy to the governor, Mr Kayode Akinmade. The statement said the…
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Pressure built for a Gaza ceasefire to be agreed at talks that resumed Thursday in Qatar, aiming to stop the spread of a war that the Hamas-run territory's health ministry said has killed 40,000. A source with knowledge of the talks confirmed to AFP that they had begun in the Qatari capital Doha. The source…
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Israel is demanding the release of 33 living hostages from Hamas during the Gaza talks in Doha in an initial phase, media reports on Thursday cited Israeli officials. Israeli representatives involved in the negotiations gave a list of names as a condition for an agreement, according to Israeli newspaper Yediot Ahronoth. Israel does not want…
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Deposit Money Bank, Guaranty Trust Bank (GTB) has provided clarity as regards alleged breach of its domain. Recall that since yesterday, customers of the bank have had difficulties in carrying out financial transactions via the bank channels. Report has it that hackers hacked into the domain of the bank and that has caused serious breach,…
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The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has announced plans to establish special units to address issues of unclaimed dividends in the industry. The commission's Director-General, Emomotomi Agama, disclosed this during a press conference following a Capital Market Committee (CMC) meeting on Thursday. Agama said the commission is making strong efforts towards reducing unclaimed dividends. He…
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The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) in Abia has confirmed the death of 11 persons in a road crash on the Port Harcourt-Enugu Expressway. The FRSC, in a statement signed by its Sector Commander in Umuahia, Ngozi Ezeoma, said eight others sustained injuries in the crash. Ezeoma said that the crash occurred at the Arongwa…
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Troops on the frontlines across troubled areas in Nigeria have neutralised 147 terrorists and arrested 381 persons. Troops also arrested 23 perpetrators of oil theft and rescued 113 kidnapped hostages, the spokesman of Defence Media Operations (DMO), Major General Edward Buba, revealed. According to Buba, who gave a bi-weekly scorecard of military activities in the…
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President Bola Tinubu and President Teodoro Mbasogo of Equatorial Guinea have signed an agreement on Gulf of Guinea Pipeline Project to further affirm the partnership between the two countries for mutual development.  Chief Ajuri Ngelale, the Special Adviser to President Tinubu on Media and publicity, said in a statement on Thursday, that the agreement was…
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Twenty-one people have been arrested in Algeria following an alleged attempt to smuggle weapons aboard a commercial ferry coming from France, the defense ministry said Wednesday. Two people, a man named Moussa Zaidi and his wife, were initially arrested on August 4 in Bejaia, some 220 kilometers (136 miles) east of Algiers, after authorities found…
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The Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) has announced that it uncovered and confiscated products from 63 illegal refineries in the past week. In a documentary released on Wednesday, NNPC revealed that 19 illegal pipeline connections and 63 illegal refineries were discovered in the Niger Delta during the crackdown. READ ALSO:Akwa Ibom gov’s WhatsApp account hacked,…