archiveSeptember 4, 2020

The Ilorin zonal office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has handed over a draft of N147m looted funds recovered from some officials of the immediate past government in Kwara State. Handing over the money to the state Commissioner for Finance and Planning, Florence Olasunbo Oyeyemi, the zonal head...

  The Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors has announced that it would commence an indefinite strike on Monday. In a statement by its President, Aliyu Sokomba, Secretary, Bilqis Mohammad and Publicity Secretary, Egbogu Stanley, the association said they arrived at the decision following its national executive council meeting. The association...

Arewa Professional Forum (APF) has renewed the call for the sack of the country’s security Chiefs by many Nigerians following rise in the spate of insecurity. The northern group based its decision on the high rate of insecurity in almost every parts of the country. The group, in a statement,...

A Kano based musician, Sharif-Aminu Yahaya sentenced to death for blasphemy by the Upper Sharia Court of Kano has filed an appeal at the state high court to challenge his conviction. In the suit filed at the Kano state high court on Thursday, Sharif-Aminu, through his counsel, Kola Alapinni, is...

  There was protest in Osogbo, the capital of Osun State, over the increase in electricity tariffs and fuel pump price in the country. The protest was staged by the Coalition for Civil Societies in the state. The protesters gathered at Freedom Park, Osogbo, very early on Friday morning and...

 First Bank of Nigeria Ltd. has graduated 12 candidates in its Senior Management Development Programme (SMDP) to enhance their leadership and strategic business skills for sustainable growth in the banking sector. Mrs Folake Ani-Mumuney, Group Head, Marketing and Corporate Communications, FirstBank, in a statement on Friday in Lagos, said that...

The Defence Headquarters says the Air Component of Operation Thunder Strike has neutralised several armed bandits in air raids on their camps in the Kuduru and Kwaimbana Forest areas of Kaduna State. Maj.-Gen. John Enenche, in a statement on Friday in Abuja, said the successes were achieved through separate airstrikes...

A British court on Friday granted Nigeria’s application for an extension of time and relief from sanctions in a $10 billion judgement awarded against it in a case involving Process and Industrial Developments (P&ID). The court consequently granted Nigeria’s application for extension of time to set aside the $9.6billion arbitral...

 A don, Prof. Esther Akinlabi has advised the Federal Government to put infrastructure in place that would support the use of technology in the education system as schools prepare to re-open. Akinlabi, who is the Director, Pan Africa University of Life and Earth Sciences Institute (PAULESI), Ibadan, stated this in...

  Ten airlines, including Air France and KLM, will not fly into Nigeria from tomorrow, the day international flights resume in the country. The others are Etihad, Rwandair, Lufthansa, TAAG Angola Airlines, Air Namibia, Royal Air Maroc, South African Airlines and Cape Verde airlines. While South African and Cape Verde...