archiveJuly 2020

The Global Forum for Accountability and Transparency Nigeria has called for the immediate replacement of the ongoing forensic audit of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) with the Justice Ayo Salami-kind of probe panel investigating the suspended Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Ibrahim Magu. The body...

Some of Nigeria’s strategic partners in the anti-corruption battle have taken more than a passing interest in the ongoing probe into activities of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) under suspended acting Chairman Ibrahim Magu as they have been expressing concern about allegations, probe process, fair hearing of the...

The Lagos State Safety Commission on Sunday said it had sealed 33 religious and social facilities for operating against the state’s established COVID-19 reopening protocols. .According to the Director General of the agency, Mr Lanre Mojola, in a statement, the facilities included bars, lounges, restaurants, gyms and spas. He said...

An Israeli Minister close to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday called for a renewed lockdown to prevent coronavirus infections from spiralling out of control. “I believe that we must go to a lockdown now,” Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz said in an interview aired on Ynet, the online version of...

Alphabet Inc’s Google on Monday said it will invest 10 billion dollars in India over the next five to seven years as the internet giant looks to boost its presence in one of its biggest growth markets. Google’s chief executive Sundar Pichai launched the Google for India Digitization Fund through...

The total unclaimed dividend figure in the Nigerian capital market stood at N158.44 billion at the end of December 2019, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports. Data obtained exclusively by NAN from the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) show that the figure is still on the increase in spite...

About 4.48 million applications have been received in the online portal for the recruitment of the third batch of N-Power enrolees. The Federal Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development commenced the enrolment process of the third batch of the N-Power beneficiaries on 26th June 2020. Sixteen days...

• Says targeted at male lecturers The Academic Staff Union of Universities, (ASUU), has faulted the Rape Bill recent passed by the National Assembly to tackle the menace sexual harassment and rape, saying it a design to victimize university lecturers. ASUU insisted that the bill is ostensibly targeted at its...

Nigeria’s former Finance Minister, Dr. (Mrs) Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has advised governments across the world to be more transparent and accountable amid the coronavirus pandemic even as she revealed how she saved millions of dollars as a minister. She observed that many countries are battling corruption in the procurement of medical...

Former Managing Director, Interim Management Committee (IMC), Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Dr. Joi Nunieh, Monday claimed she slapped the Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Senator Godswill Akpabio, in his Abuja home for sexually harassing her. It would be recalled that at the weekend, Akpabio had during an interview on...