archiveDecember 2021

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has declared the Chief Executive Officer of a Lagos-based forex training and capital investment company, MBA Capital and Trading Limited, Maxwell Odum, wanted over alleged fraud of N213 billion. In a notice on Wednesday, EFCC appealed to members of the public with details...

All is now set for the 2021 edition of the ITREALMS E-Waste Dialogue holding Thursday, December 9, 2021 at Adam’s Hall, Welcome Centre Hotels, International Airport Road, Lagos by 9am with the theme: dialogue “e-Waste in Nigeria: Consumer as key to Circular Economy & 20 years of GSM.” This is...

The President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan has again stressed on the need for more participation of women in governance and other sphere of life. He spoke in Abuja on Wednesday while receiving in audience a delegation of the ECOWAS Female Parliamentarians(ECOFEPA) led by Hon Memounatou Ibrahima 3rd Deputy Speaker...

    The ongoing trial of Abubakar Ali Peters and his company, Nadabo Energy Limited, for an alleged N1.4billion fraud, before Justice C.A. Balogun of the Lagos State High Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos continued on Wednesday, December 8, 2021, with the Court admitting, in evidence, more documents tendered by...

    The Senate on Wednesday mourned the deaths of travelers burnt to ashes on Monday by suspected bandits on their way to Gayan in Kaduna state.   The travelers numbering twenty-three, according to reports, were attacked in Angwan Bawa, Sabon Birni Local Government Area of Sokoto State.   The...

Ecobank Transnational Incorporated (ETI) has announced N143.7 billion profit before tax in its audited nine months ended September 30, 2021, an increase of about 316 per cent from N34.5billion reported in nine months ended September 30, 2020. By the results filed with the Nigerian Exchange Limited (NGX), the bank triple-digit...

  Two Babs Fafunwa Millennium Secondary School pupils who died in Tuesday’s accident have been identified. There have been conflicting reports on the exact number of pupils who died. The incident led to a protest that grounded business activities around the area. Executive Chairman, Ojodu Local Council Development Area, Odunmbaku...

  The Senate on Wednesday passed a bill to establish the Federal College of Forestry, Wawa Zange, Duku, Gombe State. Also passed during plenary was a bill to establish the University of Education Numan, Adamawa State. The passage of both bills followed the consideration of two reports by Committee on...

The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC), has said that the United Bank for Africa (UBA) took over 60 per cent equity of private investors in Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC) to recover its acquisition loans KANN. The Commission which made this clarification in a joint statement with the Bureau of...

 Indian Chief of Defence Staff, Gen.  Bipin Rawat died after a military helicopter crashed in Tamil Nadu due to poor weather conditions, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said on Wednesday.Earlier, a source from the Tamil Nadu police told Sputnik that two people died and three people suffered injuries in a military...