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KOLA ALUKO HIBERNATES………. Disappears from the social scene.

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Kola Aluko co-founded Besse Oil, a pioneering oil trading company in Nigeria. Besse Oil, one of the first to obtain a credit line with major international banks, traded crude oil and fuel oil, and was also a major importer of gasoline.

Six years later, Aluko founded Fossil Resources, an indigenous downstream oil and gas company, where he held the role of CEO. In 2004, Kola Aluko formed Exoro Energy International, and moved into exploration and production. Exoro Energy partnered with a division of Weatherford, to showcase its exploration and production technology.

In 2007, the division of Weatherford was bought out and merged with Exoro Energy to form an independent company, Seven Energy. Kola Aluko, with a team of Nigerian and international E&P executives, co-founded Atlantic Energy in 2011, a private upstream oil and gas company, with an increased focus on under-developed producing fields in Nigeria. In partnership with the Nigerian Petroleum Development Company (NPDC) Atlantic Energy focused mainly on Niger Delta assets, contracted and executed under Strategic Alliance Agreements (SAAs) with the NPDC.

In 2010, Aluko diversified into the aviation industry, becoming a member of the VistaJet advisory board, assisting with the West-African expansion of the Swiss-based luxury aviation company.

Upon all his business acumen and strategies Aluko has not allowed his business schedule restrict him from enjoying the best things of life. When it comes to social gathering Aluko is always in the forefront and he has made an indelible mark in the social circle that his name cannot be forgotten in a hurry. Whenever Aluko steps out to event, you cannot but notice his appearance considering his swags and carriage which has differentiate him from others. But lately nothing much has been heard from the controversial business man. While some quarters of the social scene agree that he is strategizing on his business, some others also admitted that he has gone into the oblivion based on his many woes and troubles with the anti graft agency EFCC recently.

 

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Paternity fraud: UK court reverses ruling, orders deportation of Nigerian

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A United Kingdom upper tribunal has reversed a previous ruling that stopped the deportation of 43-year-old Nigerian Olutobi Ogunbawo.

The decision comes after his wife, Maria Adesanya, claimed that in vitro fertilisation treatment was unavailable in Nigeria, a key argument in their defence.

Ogunbawo, convicted in 2019 for immigration offences related to conspiring with a British citizen to claim paternity falsely, had served a three-year prison sentence.

Following his release, he faced deportation proceedings. In January 2023, a first-tier tribunal judge ruled in his favour, citing the impact of deportation on his wife’s ability to conceive a child through IVF.

Maria testified that IVF, essential to their efforts to start a family, was not an option in Nigeria.

However, the secretary of state for the Home Department challenged this claim, arguing that the tribunal’s reliance on her testimony lacked supporting evidence.

The upper tribunal reviewed the case and, on November 4, 2024, ruled that the initial decision was flawed.

It was found that the first-tier tribunal judge failed to seek objective evidence to verify Maria’s assertion.

The upper tribunal noted that a simple internet search could confirm the availability of IVF services in Nigeria, undermining the couple’s argument.

The judgment criticized the earlier ruling, stating: “We conclude that the judge erred in exclusively relying upon Ms A’s (referring to Maria) personal evidence when finding as a fact that IVF treatment is unavailable in Nigeria,” the upper tribunal ruled, according to Daily Mail on Sunday.

The tribunal set aside the earlier decision and ordered the case to be reheard by a different judge.

“We observe the Secretary of State’s unchallenged assertion before us that even the most basic Google search reveals the existence of IVF treatment in Nigeria.

“The Secretary of State’s appeal is allowed to the extent that the decision of the First-tier Tribunal is set aside in its entirety.

“The appeal is to be remitted to the First-tier Tribunal to be heard by any judge other than First-tier Tribunal Judge Malone,” it added.

 

 

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Dr Abisoye Fagade honoured as Aare Asojuoba of Ibadan land (Photo News)

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Renowned Islamic Cleric Muhideen Ajani Bello Dies At 84

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December 6, 2024

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A renowned Islamic cleric, Alhaji Sheikh Muhydeen Ajani Bello is dead.

 

The news was confirmed through her daughter who runs a private Nursery school in Ire Akari area of Ibadan Alhaja Bimbas as fondly called.

 

” It is true ” Bimbas confirmed.

 

Our source confirmed that the octogenarian died on Friday morning at the age of 84.

 

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