archiveOctober 12, 2021

The existing collaboration between the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, and the Security and Exchange Commission, SEC, received a boost with a capacity-building training for select officers of the Commission in the Lagos Zonal Command. Speaking during the one-day training tagged “ Enlightenment Programme on the Capital Market and...

Veteran actor Chiwetalu Agu has been moved to the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja by the Department of State Services (DSS). This is to intensify investigations for promoting Biafra and allegedly inciting members of the public. He was first arrested by the Nigerian Army on October 7, 2021, around Upper Iweka...

Chidinma Ojukwu has pleaded not guilty to the murder of Super TV CEO, Usifo Ataga. The 22-year-old Mass Communications student of the University of Lagos (Unilag) ,made the plea on Tuesday when she and one Adedapo Quadri, who are the key suspects in the murder case were arraigned before Justice...

   approves direct primaries for political parties    The Senate has empowered the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to determine the procedure for the transmission of results during the general elections. This was just as it approved direct primaries for aspirants to all elective positions. The amendments were made on Tuesday...

  obtain £15, 491, 23 from victims The Benin Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Monday October 11, 2021 arraigned the duo of Ukhuriegbe Glory Irekpitan and Onyekwa Joshua Chinedum before Justice S. M. Shuaibu of the Federal High Court sitting in Benin, Edo State...

  Electricity consumer protection groups on Tuesday advised the Federal Government against the removal of electricity subsidy so as not to create a hike in tariffs.Mrs Zainab Ahmed, Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, had disclosed that government was working towards eliminating electricity subsidy to free up funds for...

An Ikeja Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday ordered that a 29-year-old civil servant, Gabriel Awaye, be remanded in a correctional centre for allegedly defiling a 13-year-old girl. The police charged Awaye, who lives on Agbawaye Street, Command, Agbado Oke-Odo, Lagos State, with defilement. Magistrate T.O. Tanimola, who did not take the...

Former Arsenal manager, Arsene Wenger, will finally return to management for the first time since leaving the Gunners in January 2018. Wenger is participating in the 2022 Riyadh Season Cup, coaching a combined team consisting of players from two of the Kingdom’s biggest clubs. It’s Wenger’s first professional coaching role...

An Ikeja Chief Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday ordered that a 52-year-old man, Sunday Anthony, should be remanded in Kirikiri Correctional Centre for allegedly raping his 17-year-old daughter The police charged Anthony, who resides at No. 7, Ibro St., Yewa Estate, Isawo Road, Agric Ikorodu, Lagos, with rape. Magistrate M.O. Tanimola,...

 Dr Betta Edu, Cross River Commissioner for Health on says malaria remains the highest cause of under-fives and maternal mortality in Nigeria.Edu said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Tuesday in Calabar, while reacting to the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) approval of a malaria...