Magazine To Pay Gov Adams Oshiomhole ₦25m Over A False Story They Wrote About Him

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A Benin High Court has awarded Edo State Governor, Adams Oshiomhole, ₦25million as damages in a libel suit he instituted against the publishers of News of the People, a soft sell weekly magazine. 

Governor Oshiomhole had dragged the soft sell weekly magazine to court demanding N250million as damages over their report with the headline:

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PDP Is Responsible For Nigeria’s Underdevelopment – Omoworare ( True Or False ?)

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Senator Babajide Omoworare, representing Osun East Senatorial District in the National Assembly has accused the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) of being responsible for the misfortune of the country.

According to Omoworare, the PDP which had clinched to power since 1999, has no meaningful plan for the country, adding that the party leadership has milk-dried the country with its- self-centeredness, budget for frivolity and economic mismanagement.

Omoworare stated this while delivering a lecture titled: “Sustainable Infrastructural Development and the Future of the State of Osun” at the Orientation Week of the National Association of Osun State Students (NAOS), held at the Centre for Black Culture and International Understanding in Osogbo, last Saturday.

EFCC Arraigns Fraudster For False Declaration Of Assets

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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Friday arraigned one Michael Samuel before Justice J. Tsoho of a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, on a two (2) count charge bordering on false declaration of assets worth over N30 million( Thirty Million Naira  only)

 Part of the charge reads, “that you, Michael Samuel on or about the 12th day of January 2013 in Lagos Judicial Division of the Federal High Court knowingly made a false declaration when you failed, refused and neglected to declare your interest in the Range Rover Sport Jeep with registration NO: KJA 728 AW in the Declaration of Assets form of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, and thereby committed an offence punishable under section 27 (3) (b) of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission( Establishment) Act 2004”.