archiveSeptember 2020

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arrested one Hajiya Hadiza Umar Abubakar for defrauding a job seeker, Nuraddeen Abubakar of N3,000,000(Three Million Naira only) through a fake promise of securing employment for him in the EFCC. The suspect was arrested in a branch of Guaranty Trust Bank (GTB),...

Senate Committee Chairman on Information Communication Technology (ICT) and Cyber Crime, Senator Yakubu Oseni, and other Committee members have commended the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for its robust ICT, cybercrime and forensic infrastructures. They gave the commendation on Wednesday in Abuja when the Senate Committee on ICT and...

Justice Taiwo Taiwo of the Federal High Court, Abuja on Thursday, implored journalists to be unbiased in covering proceedings in the alleged money laundering case against Ochuko Momoh and five others. Momoh is the wife of former Managing Director of the Pipelines and Products Marketing Company (PPMC), Haruna Momoh. The...

Lagos State Government has dismantled an illegal slaughter in the Oke Rube axis of Alimosho Local Government Area of the state. The state Acting Commissioner for Agriculture, Messrs Abisola Olusanya, who led the operation on Thursday, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that the team arrested 10 butchers and...

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has granted approval to four agro-processing companies to import 262,000 tons of maize and corn in the bid to complement an anticipated shortfall of the commodity in the country. According Premium Times, this was disclosed in an internal memo of the Nigeria Customs dated...

...approves conversion of isolation centres to PHCs …as Aawe isolation centre reverts to PHC The Oyo State COVID-19 Task Force, headed by Governor Seyi Makinde, has announced the cancellation of the 10 p.m. curfew imposed on the state in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. A statement by the Chief...

The Trade Union Congress (TUC) of Nigeria has condemned the increase in petrol price and electricity tariff in the country. The TUC expressed disappointment on Thursday in a statement titled, ‘Killing the dead,’ and signed by its president, Quadri Olaleye, and Secretary-General, Musa-Lawal Ozigi. It said, “For the umpteenth time,...

Lionel Messi’s father and agent met Barcelona Club President Josep Maria Bartomeu on Wednesday to discuss the player’s wish to leave the club but the talks ended in stalemate, Spanish media reported. Earlier, Jorge Messi said it would be “difficult” for his son to remain with Barcelona, the only club...

    The University of Ibadan (UI), Lagos State University (LASU), Ojo and the University of Lagos (UNILAG) have been ranked first, second and third in that order in Nigeria by the Times Higher Education (THE) World University Ranking in its latest report released on Wednesday. Covenant University, Ota; the...

  Leaders of lawyers’ groups from the northern part of the country have rejected the new ‘Nigerian Bar Association’ splinter group formed by lawyers of Northern extraction who claimed to be of like minds. The leaders of the lawyers from the northern part of the country met on Wednesday with...