Concerning the level of Insecurity in the country, an ethnic youth council, the Nigeria Ethnic Nationalities Youth Leaders Council, has called on the Federal Government of Nigeria to be proactive and develop new strategies to tackle insecurity. They gave this charge in Abuja on Wednesday, when the President-General of the Council, Mr Terry Orbih, addressed … Read more
The Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit has uncovered 96 financiers of terrorism, including 424 associates/supporters of the financiers. The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, made this known during a briefing on the anti-corruption fight of President Muhammadu Buhari’s regime on Thursday. The minister also said the fraud unit unmasked 123 companies and 33 bureaux … Read more
Senior special assistant to the president on public affairs Ajuri Ngelale has questioned the competence of the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) to release credible data to the public. According to Ngelale, the bureau gives out false statistics of unemployed adults in the country. He said the figures do not include those in the informal … Read more
The Actors Guild of Nigeria (AGN) has said that the Nollywood celebrities who visited presidential aspirant Bola Tinubu did not represent the interest of the guild. In a statement signed by the AGN national task force chairman, McSmith Ochendo, on Wednesday, the guild stated that the AGN is a non-political and non-profit making association. According … Read more
Former military ruler General Ibrahim Babangida (retd.) on Wednesday threw his weight behind former Senate President Bukola Saraki for the 2023 presidency. Babangida, who had earlier received presidential aspirants Bola Tinubu and Atiku Abubakar, endorsed Saraki’s candidacy during a visit by a delegation of the Abubakar Bukola Saraki (ABS), national campaign advocacy council led by … Read more
Victor Osibodu A Federal High Court in Lagos has adjourned till March 17 to begin hearing of Ecobank Nigeria Limited’s N8,701,770,328.83 dispute with a businessman, Victor Osibodu and his firm, Vigeo Limited. Victor is the husband of Funke Osibodu, a former managing director of Ecobank Nigeria, a former top Group Executive of the Ecobank Group … Read more
Parallex Bank, a commercial bank recently launched by Loveworld Nation (also known as Christ Embassy), assaulted freedom of the press on Monday when its agent caused the takedown of THE WHISTLER website for about four hours. Parallex Bank is the latest entrant into the commercial banking industry in Nigeria. Having launched on Friday, January 14, 2022, at … Read more
President, African Development Bank (AfDB) Akinwumi Adesina and his wife Grace Adesina on Sunday visited Dangote refinery and fertiliser plants which are under construction in Lagos. The duo met billionaire Aliko Dangote and Femi Otedola. Adesina described the plants as projects that would positively affect Africa’s economic growth and development. He said that the projects … Read more
Odunlade Adekola Actor Odunlade Adekola on Friday poured encomiums on his colleague Eniola Ajao to celebrate her birthday. In an Instagram post, the 44-year-old a shared photo of the celebrant describing her as a wonderful human who is pretty, beautiful and gorgeous. “Pretty…Eniola Beautiful…Eniola Gorgeous… Eniola Star …Eniola Fantastic actor… Eniola Wonderful Human … Eniola … Read more
AMCON MD, Ahmed Kuru The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Wednesday grilled the managing director of Assets Management Company of Nigeria, (AMCON), Mr. Ahmed Kuru. Kuru was quizzed in connection to alleged diversion of assets. A top official at the anti-graft agency confirmed the development on Wednesday. Kuru has been accused of asset … Read more
Ahmed Kuru The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Wednesday interrogated the managing director of Assets Management Company of Nigeria (AMCON) Ahmed Kuru. It was gathered that Mr Kuru was questioned by EFCC operatives over alleged diversion of assets and selling of seized assets to cronies below valued prices. He was still with the … Read more
By Ted Hesson and Matt Spetalnick WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The leading Republican vying to unseat an Arizona Democrat in a crucial U.S. Senate race next year gets heated when he talks about Democratic President Joe Biden’s “failed border policies,” occasionally throwing in expletives when decrying their alleged financial cost and what he says is the … Read more
Nnamdi Okonkwo, the immediate-past chief executive officer of Fidelity Bank Plc and newly appointed group managing director of First Bank Holdings has debunked a report that he has been arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). Reports in the online media suggest that Okonkwo was picked up three days ago by the anti-graft … Read more
Court resumes trial of Petro Union Oil & Gas, officials over $15bn fraud The ongoing high-level criminal trial of the alleged Petro Union and Gas Limited fraud case is set to resume on 15th November at a Federal High Court in Lagos. According to the hearing notice issued recently by the court, the trial court … Read more
The Federal High Court in Abuja on Monday found the chairman of the defunct Pension Reform Task Team (PRTT), Abdulrasheed Maina, guilty of money laundering charges. In a judgement being delivered by Okon Abang, the trial judge, the court held that Mr Maina stole over N2 billion belonging to Pensioners, “most of whom have died … Read more
A Federal High Court in Lagos has restrained Shebah Exploration and Production Company Ltd, Sheban Petroleum Development Company Ltd and Dr Ambrosie Orjiako and persons acting on their behalf from withdrawing from the accounts of nine other defendants and 29 banks. Justice Yellin Bogoro made the interim order while granting ex parte Mareva application applied … Read more
Another body has been recovered from the rubble of the building which collapsed in Ikoyi area of Lagos. The structure, which was being developed by Fourscore Homes, caved in on Monday. Femi Osibona, owner of Fourscore Homes, is one of the 43 persons who have been confirmed to have died in the collapse. Osibona’s body was … Read more
Some areas under the operational network of Ikeja Electric Plc, will experience outage for a period of eight weeks, the company has said. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Mr Olajide Kumapayi, Chief Technical Officer, Ikeja Electric, who made the announcement at a news briefing on Monday in Ikeja, said the development is … Read more
Oladipupo Williams, a legal luminary and senior advocate of Nigeria is dead. According to Kunle, his son, Ladi, as he is fondly called, died in the early hours of Sunday from complications due to COVID-19. “My father passed away this morning from COVID-19 despite being double vaccinated with Oxford AstraZeneca,” Kunle said on his Facebook … Read more
Members of the dreaded Boko Haram terrorist group, on Saturday, attacked Damboa, the headquarters of Damboa local government area in Borno State. A security source disclosed that the insurgents invaded the town around 5pm. The source said shortly after the fighters stormed the town, the network went off, raising suspicion that they destroyed it. Troops … Read more
The police on Friday dispersed a group of protesters in Abuja, firing teargas at them, The Witness reports. The youths came out in their numbers on Friday morning all carrying placards which had the inscriptions #BuhariMustGo. They also carried a large banner with #RevolutionNow written on it while moving in the streets. The protesters also … Read more
The Nigerian Government has finally reacted to the vandalization of the properties of Television Continental, TVC, and the Nation Newspaper by hoodlums in Lagos State. Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the Minister of Information and Culture, on Saturday, described the action of the youths as assault on free press and democracy. DAILY POST reported that angry youths … Read more
Islamic human rights group, Muslim Rights Concern, MURIC, has sympathised with the media over the looting and destruction of some media houses by hoodlums on Wednesday. Some media houses in Lagos State were badly affected in the melee which occurred during the ongoing #EndSARS saga, on Wednesday. Notably The Nation and Television Continental (TVC) were … Read more