archiveJune 2021

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Kaduna Zonal office have commenced investigation into an alleged case of conspiracy, computer-related fraud and benefitting from proceeds of crime levelled against one Okhipo David, who claims to be an undergraduate. David who was arrested on Monday, 15 March, 2021, had sometime in...

  World Trade Organisation (WTO) said Africa is working with the European Union and other partners to help create regional vaccine manufacturing hubs with Nigeria, South Africa, Senegal and Rwanda. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala Director-General WTO said on Monday during a virtual meeting that “we have now seen that over-centralization of vaccine...

  The African Development Bank (AfDB) says the 430 million dollars highway project linking Enugu to Bamenda in Cameroon will be completed this year. The bank, in a statement issued on Monday, said that it was part of its investments in West Africa which currently stood at 16 billion dollars....

  A don, Dr Abdulateef Bako, has attributed the current security challenges in Nigeria to unmonitored development and outright absence of adequate physical planning of cities and towns. Bako, who is acting Dean, Faculty of Environmental Sciences, of University of Ilorin, stated this while addressing newsmen on Monday in Ilorin....

 The Federal Government has announced the establishment of two additional universities of technology in Jigawa and Akwa Ibom, while also upgrading and equipping four others. The Minister of Education, Malam Adamu Adamu, who was represented by the Permanent Secretary of the ministry, Mr Sonny Echono disclosed this to newsmen in...

The Federal High Court, Abuja, on Monday, ordered the Federal Government to pay 951 million dollars to the Bayelsa Government, being the 13 per cent derivative sum due as arrears of revenue and payable to the state. Justice Inyang Ekwo, who delivered the judgment, held that the Attorney- General of...

  Barely 48 hours after the United Arab Emirates announced the lift on ban of flights coming and going out of Nigeria, Emirates Airline has again suspended flights to and from Lagos and Abuja with effect from June 21 until further notice. According to the airline, customers travelling to and...

The umbrella body of pro-democracy groups in Nigeria, the National Democratic Coalition (NADECO), has formally written a ‘Save our Souls’ (SOS) letter to the United Nations (UN), asking the international body to prevent the collapse of the country. The letter signed by NADECO’s General Secretary/Spokesman, Mr. Ayo Opadokun, was a...

  The Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Abdulrasheed Bawa, has said that a former Lagos State Governor and National leader of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu, is still under investigation. Bawa stated this in an interview with ThisDay on Sunday, saying the probe could expectedly...

  Former Deputy Governor, Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Prof Kingsley Moghalu has lamented about the country’s debt profile which he said has reached 7.8 trillion dollars in the last three years. Moghalu who disclosed this at Nnamdi Azikiwe University during the Kwechiri Political summit lamented that the level at...