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The Maiduguri Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has secured the conviction Adam kaka Adam, a former banker, who was today sentenced to one year imprisonment by Justice Ibrahim Jauro of the Yobe State High Court sitting in Damaturu. The convict was prosecuted on one-count of...

The Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) has migrated of Chellarams Plc, Living Trust Mortgage Plc, McNichols Plc, and The Initiates Plc from the Alternative Securities Market (ASeM) to the Growth Board and the launch the associated Growth Board Index on Monday, 30 November 2020. This migration follows the receipt of applications...

  says South-West Govs will continue to cooperate for prosperity Makinde is a man of honour, he'll implement MoU- Osun Gov Oyo State Governor, Engineer Seyi Makinde, said on Monday that politics and other considerations cannot distract him and his colleague governors in the South-West geopolitical zone from cooperating to...

The Federal High Court, Abuja, on Monday, granted a suit, seeking to apply for judicial review and order of mandamus to compel the Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Goodwin Emefiele, to provide details of financial donations received by the country in relation to the coronavirus pandemic. Mandamus is...

  Former Anambra State Governor, Peter Obi, has advised the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration to reduce its borrowing as Nigeria cannot afford to borrow its way out of its current economic situation. Obi, a former Vice-Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), in the 2019 general elections, gave the...

  The Senate of the University of Ibadan on Monday elected Professor Adebola Babatunde Ekanola an Acting Vice Chancellor. Ekanola until his appointment was the Deputy Vice Chancellor, Academics. Five Professors had indicated interest in succeeding the outgoing Vice-Chancellor, Professor Idowu Olayinka whose tenure expired on the 30th of November,...

The Delta Government Job and Wealth Creation Bureau says it is developing a digital job market information portal to carter to the needs of job seeking unemployed graduates in the state. The Chief Job and Wealth Creation Officer, Prof. Eric Eboh, who disclosed this on Monday at a two-day workshop...

Italians will have to celebrate New Year indoors, a government minister warned  on Monday, as he ruled out exceptions to curfew rules for Dec.31. If we decide that people cannot stay out beyond a certain hour, “we return home regardless of what we have to do,“ Regional Affairs Minister Francesco Boccia...

Gaps in life-saving interventions are undermining efforts to curb malaria, amid fears that the coronavirus pandemic could set back the fight against the disease even further, the UN World Health Organization (WHO) has said. According to the World Malaria Report, released on Monday, the situation is particularly concerning in high-burden...

  Prof. Sulaimon Akanmu of Haematology, Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), Idi-Araba, Lagos, says evidence abound that rate of transmission of HIV/AIDS in Nigeria has dropped. Akanmu made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos on the challenges that HIV/AIDS had taken a...