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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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…