archiveMay 2020

BudgIT Foundation, a leading non-governmental organisation in the advocacy for openness, transparency and accountability in Nigeria, calls on the appropriate anti-corruption agencies to look into the series of reports directly implicating the speaker of the Lagos state House of Assembly over misappropriation of public funds for personal use. According to...

The police on Thursday arraigned a 36-year-old man, Suleiman Dukku in a Wuse Zone Six Chief Magistrates’ Court, Abuja, for allegedly defrauding job seekers of N2.3 million. Dukku, who resides at  Sanka, Kuje,  Abuja is charged with two counts of  impersonation and cheating. Earlier, the prosecution counsel, Sanda Jibril told...

By Chinyere Joel-Nwokeoma, News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) Global disruptions caused by the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic have made individuals, organisations and countries to think out of the box to be able to survive in the various aspects of life. It has made them to make necessary adjustments. In Nigeria,...

Oil prices advanced on Thursday as a drawdown of the U.S. crude inventories and output cuts by major producers helped ease concerns about a supply glut, though lingering fears over the global economic fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic capped gains. Brent crude futures for July delivery were trading up 33...

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on Wednesday recorded 284 new cases of COVID-19 in the country, bringing the total number of infections in the country to 6677. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that eight new patients have been confirmed dead to the virus in the country,...

Some consumers in Lagos on Thursday decried the hike in electricity billings which had been proposed to take-off on June 1. The consumers decried this in separate interviews with the News Agency of Nigeria  (NAN) in Lagos. They described the move as insensitive to the plight of people who were...

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has promised to use every tool at its disposal to fight the COVID-19 pandemic, its Director General, Dr. Tedros Ghebreyesus, has said. Ghebreyesus spoke at the closing of two-day virtual World Health Assembly in Geneva. In his speech posted on WHO website, Ghebreyesus said some...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Wednesday rebutted allegation that its acting Chairman, Mr. Ibrahim Magu, owned property and evaded service of court summons over a matter long decided by the judiciary. A statement by the commission entitled: “Desperate Blackmailers, Allies of Corrupt Elements in Smear Campaign against EFCC,...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Kaduna Zonal Office on Wednesday, May 20, 2020 secured a seven years prison term of one Sadiq Mustapha without option of fine, before Justice Mallong Peter of the Federal High Court, Kaduna for obtaining money by false pretence to the tune of N6,100,...

  The termination of the appointment of Prof. Charles Uwakwe as the Registrar/Chief Executive of the National Examinations Council (NECO) and four others over allegation of N25 billion fraud by President Muhammadu Buhari has become an engaging issues on the social media since the announcement was made on Tuesday. In...