Day: 7 October 2019

Court seizes N35m, 22-room hotel from ex-NIMASA DG

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A Federal High Court in Lagos has granted the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission an interim order to seize the N35 million and a 22-room hotel seized from a convicted former acting director-general of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, Calistus Obi. Justice Saliu Saidu made the interim order following an application by EFCC counsel Mr Rotimi Oyedepo.Obi bagged seven years imprisonment on June 3 for N225million fraud. Justice Saidu adjourned hearing till Nov 4, 2019.

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Four Square sack Unilag’s ‘sex for mark lecturer’

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The Foursquare Gospel Church in Nigeria has asked the embattled University of Lagos lecturer, Dr Boniface Igbeneghu, to step down from all ministerial assignments. Igbeneghu, who is a former sub-dean of Faculty of Arts and also head pastor of a local Foursquare Gospel Church was caught on camera sexually harassing a supposed admission seeker in his office. Reacting in a statement on Monday, the National Secretary of the church, Ikechukwu Ugbaja, dissociated the church from Igbeneghu, saying appropriate measures would be taken against him. “The attention of the leadership of…

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Unilag shut down staff club’s slaughterhouse, ‘Cold Room

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The University of Lagos has shut down the “Cold Room” its Staff Club’s ‘slaughterhouse’ after the institution announced the suspension of the embattled lecturer of the Faculty of Arts, Dr. Boniface Igbeneghu, over sexual harassment. Igbeneghu was exposed in a documentary released by BBC Africa Eye on Monday. In the documentary, the lecturer revealed to undercover journalist, Kiki Mordi, who posed as an admission seeker, the secret place where lecturers meet to “touch students breast” at the staff club of the university. “They call the place cold room,” he said.…

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