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The Federal High Court in Abuja has adjourned the trial of Godwin Emefiele, former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to June 24. Emefiele is standing trial before Justice Hamza Muazu, sitting in Maitama, Abuja, on an amended 20-count charge bordering on a criminal breach of trust, forgery, abuse of office, conspiracy to obtain money by false pretence, and obtaining money by false pretences. He is being prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on behalf of the Nigerian government. The embattled Emefiele was, among others,…

By NewsBits Governor of Enugu State, Dr. Peter Mbah, on Thursday, flagged off another round of the distribution of palliatives in the state, warning against the politicisation of the exercise to ensure it gets to the independent and vulnerable people across the state. Mbah, however, said that the palliatives were a quick-fix and efforts of the federal government and the state to cushion the effects of the economic hardship in the land while the positive results of the state’s economic policies and programmes crystalise. Performing the official flag-off after the…

A popular Enugu State-born politician and former spokesperson of the Nigerian Senate, Senator Ayogu Eze, is dead. The former Enugu APC Guber candidate who represented Enugu North Senatorial District between 2007 to 2015, died at the age of 66 years. A founding member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Senator Ayogu Eze according to reports died in an Abuja Hospital after a protracted illness. The family is yet to issue a formal announcement as at the time of this report.

By NewsBits The Senior Special Assistant to the Enugu State Governor, Dr. Peter Mbah, on Mainstream Media, Hon. Dan Nwomeh, is set to commit late mother to earth on Saturday, April 27. Nwomeh’s mother, Mrs Ezinne Margaret Nebechi Nwomeh, who passed away on 25 February, 2024, would be given a benefitting burial this weekend, at Ozalla,  according to the burial programme signed by the family. The family has also announced a vigil Mass and wake for the late Margaret Nwomeh at the family compound, Old Four Corners, Ozalla, in Nkanu…

By NewsBits Hours  after the resignation of Rivers State Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Zacchaeus Adangor, another commissioner in the oil-rich South-South state, Isaac Kamalu, has exited the cabinet of Governor Siminalayi Fubara. Like Adangor, Kamalu, in a letter to the Secretary to the Rivers State Government, Tammy Danagogo, on Wednesday, rejected his redeployment from the Finance Ministry to the Ministry of Employment Generation and Economic Empowerment. Kamalu cited absence of peace in Rivers State despite the peace pact by President Bola Tinubu last December. He said it was…

Ann Eniyamire, the daughter of former Abuja Customary Court of Appeal President, Justice Moses Bello, on Wednesday, prayed an FCT High Court sitting in Bwari to declare that she is entitled to 11.11 per cent of all her late father’s property, including estates. Eniyamire told Justice Mohammed Madugu, through her lawyer, Yahuza Mahraz, to grant her the entitlement in line with her late father’s will. In the suit marked: CV/667/2024, Eniyamire sued Reverend Father Ezekiel Awolumate and Christ the King Catholic Church Okene Parish as 1st and 2nd defendants. Her…

By NewsBits The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board, JAMB, said it arrested a father writing exams for his son during the ongoing Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME. The board warned that it has improved its technology check for those engaging in all forms of examination malpractices. Speaking in Kaduna on Wednesday, the JAMB Registrar, Prof Ishaq Oloyede who inspected the UTME centres in Kaduna, expressed satisfaction over the 2024 examination, which had 1.94 million students this year. He, however, frowned at few cases of impersonation, adding that some people now…