Tag: 500
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$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…
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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…
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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…