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A 23-year-old HND 1 Student of the Federal Polytechnic, Offa, Kwara State, Oladipo Opeyemi Juwon was on Thursday, December 10, 2020 sentenced to nine months imprisonment by Justice Mahmood Abdulgafar of the Kwara State High Court sitting in Ilorin over his involvement in internet scam. The sentence followed his arraignment...

Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Lagos Zonal Office, have arrested one Williams Michael Ogwezi, also known as Dr. Williams, for parading himself as a staff of the Commission to defraud his unsuspecting victims. The suspect, a member of a syndicate that specializes in forging identity cards...

The General Officer Commanding 6th Division, Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Maj-Gen. Johnson Olu Irefin has reportedly died of complications associated with the Coronavirus pandemic. The sudden death of Irefin, who assumed the command of the division in July 2020 replacing Maj.-Gen. Felix Agugo, was said to have thrown the army...

  as it wants President to rescind sack of NDE DG President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, has said that the National Assembly will continue to support the Social Intervention Programmes of the President Muhammadu Buhari administration. According to Lawan, the various intervention programmes by the federal government seeks to...

Britain’s drug controller issued a warning to people having a history of allergies to avoid getting a jab of the BioNTech-Pfizer vaccine. The warning was issued after three people who received the vaccine suffered from allergic reactions. “Any person with a history of anaphylaxis to a vaccine, medicine or food...

  The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has confirmed to the court on Thursday that Faisal, son of the former Chairman of the defunct Pension Reform Taskforce Team, Abdulrasheed Maina, has been arrested. The EFCC said the 21-year-old Faisal, who jumped bail on June 24, was apprehended by security...

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has denied that it reached an agreement with the federal government, to call off its ongoing strike on December 9, 2020. The Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige, on Tuesday claimed that ASUU promised to call off their nine-month-old strike before...

President Muhammadu Buhari shortly before the commencement of the 27th virtual Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting at the Council Chamber of the State House, Abuja, swore in Professor Mahmood Yakubu as Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). Buhari reappointed Yakubu as chairman of INEC for another five-year term...

The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), on Wednesday, directed all mobile network operators (MNOs) to immediately suspend registration and activation of new Subscriber Identification Module (SIM) cards as a result of directive of the Federal Government, which called for an audit of the Subscriber Registration Database in the country NCC in...

The World Bank has asked Nigeria to strengthen reforms of the naira before it can approve a $1.5 billion loan, its country director Nigeria said on Thursday as reported by Reuters. According to the report, Nigeria needs the support to survive low oil prices and make it through the economic...