$500,000 bribe: Supreme Court Affirms Farouk Lawan’s Five-Year Sentence
The Supreme Court has affirmed the five-year jail term handed to a former member of the House of Representatives, Farouk Lawan by the Court of Appeal. Lawan was convicted and sentenced to prison in 2021 for accepting $500,000 bribe from businessman, Femi Otedola, Chairman, Zenon Petroleum and Gas Ltd. In a unanimous judgment on Friday, a five-member panel affirmed the 2022 judgment of the Court of Appeal which upheld Lawan’s sentencing to five years in respect of only count three on the three-count charge on which he was tried at the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory
BUA slashes price of cement to N3,500
BUA Cement PLC on Sunday announced the of the price of its cement product to N3,500 per bag starting from Monday, October 2, 2023. It said the price reduction was in line with its commitment to spur development in the “building materials and infrastructural sectors”. The company announced the price reduction in a statement posted on its X (formerly Twitter) page. This development is coming weeks after the company’s chairman, Abdul Samad Rabiu, after meeting with President Bola Tinubu, promised to review the price of the product. The statement read in part, “We refer to our previous pronouncements regarding our
Recruitment: Civil defence board drops 1, 393,500 applicants, shortlists only 6,500
The Civil Defence, Correctional, Fire and Immigration Board has shortlisted 6,500 applicants out of the 1,474,149 persons that applied for the 2019 recruitment exercise. About 670,000 were invited, 200,000 responded while 53,116 wrote the Computer-Based Test. Announcing this at a press briefing in Abuja on Friday, the NSCDC Commandant-General, Dr Ahmed Audi, said only 5,000 qualified candidates would be employed after the final screening billed to hold between August 2 and 25. The CG directed applicants to check the application portal from July 20 for their names, screening locations, and guidelines. He said only applicants who have their invitation slips
