archiveJuly 2021

  An Ado-Ekiti Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday ordered the remand of a 37-year-old man, Musa Nurudeen, in the correctional centre in Ado-Ekiti for allegedly defiling his 11-year-old daughter. The defendant, whose address was not provided, is being tried for alleged rape. The Prosecuting Counsel, Mrs Shirley Atane, from Ekiti State...

  The House of Representatives has considered the pay-per-view, pay-as-you-go and price reduction for DSTV and other cable satellite operators in the country. This followed the adoption of the reports and recommendation of the Ad–hoc Committee on Non–Implementation of Pay–As–You–Go and sudden Increment of Tariffs plan by Broadcast Digital Satellite...

    wants N865.44bn illegal revenue deductions stopped directs NPA to refund $37.67m, N67.5bn, N1.07bn, $2.3m, €196,257 to treasury mandates EFCC, ICPC to go after govt. officials responsible for funds diversions The Senate has faulted the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation for under remitting the sum of N3,878,955,039,855.73 trillion revenue from...

 Some ram sellers in Ado-Odo/Ota Local Area of Ogun have expressed concern over low patronage of buyers, ahead of the forthcoming Eid-el Kabir festival. The ram sellers stated this known in separate interviews with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Wednesday in Ota, Ogun. Mr Musa Abdullahi, a seller...

  Google on Wednesday  announced the selection  of 22 media innovators to receive $2.1 million in funding through the second Google News Initiative (GNI) Innovation Challenge for Africa, the Middle East, and Turkey. Ludovic Blecher, Head GNI, said in a statement that GNI is Google’s effort to help news players...

  The University of Lagos has directed its students to vacate the various halls of residence on campus with immediate effect. The institution’s Principal Assistant Registrar, Corporate Affairs, Mrs Nonye Oguama gave the directive in a statement on Wednesday in Lagos. “The move is to further check the spread of the Coronavirus pandemic...

  The Economic and Financial Crimes commission (EFCC) on Wednesday, July 14, 2021, launched an App, Eagle Eye, designed to ease the process of reporting economic and financial crimes in Nigeria. Speaking during the launch, the Executive Chairman of the Commission, Abdulrasheed Bawa, described the App, being the first of...

  The Oyo State chapter of the Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA) has declared that contrary to the accusation that Governor 'Seyi Makinde was biased against Muslims in the appointment of commissioners in the dissolved cabinet, the governor has, indeed, been fair to the Muslim Ummah in all...

In the early hours of Tuesday July 13, 2021 a team of operatives from the Lagos Zonal Office of the Commission, acting on verified intelligence on the activities of a suspected syndicate of internet fraudsters carried out an operation at Parkitonian Hotel in the Lekki area of Lagos. During the...

  Nigeria, ECOWAS sign MoU on implementing Early Warning mechanism, centre Since security threats confronting Nigeria and the rest of West Africa are becoming more violent, asymmetric, cross-border by nature, and spreading faster than before, the need for an effective sub-regional collaboration on early warning systems has become a necessity,...