archiveSeptember 2022

procurement procedures, contract awards must be scrutinized office of the NSA, ex- and current Service Chiefs must give account A coalition of 200 has called on the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), and other relevant law enforcement agencies to, as...

I can confidently say that the days of wanton manipulation of election results in Nigeria are over. Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Chairman Professor Mahmood Yakubu has said. The INEC boss said the breakthrough came with the new Electoral Act 2022, which empowered the Commission to adopt electronic means for...

The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) on Friday disclosed that Nigeria’s foreign trade fell to N12.8 trillion in the second quarter of this year from N13 trillion in the previous quarter. The statistics office disclosed this in its Foreign Trade in Goods Statistics report for Q2’ 2022. The report said...

I speak to you today with feelings of profound sorrow. Throughout her life, Her Majesty The Queen – my beloved Mother – was an inspiration and example to me and to all my family, and we owe her the most heartfelt debt any family can owe to their mother; for...

The Bank of England has disclosed that banknotes bearing the late Queen Elizabeth’s image will still remain legal tender until further communication on the matter is made. Buckingham Palace on Thursday confirmed that Queen Elizabeth II, Britain’s longest-reigning monarch and the nation’s figurehead for seven decades died at age 96....

The Ekiti State Governor and Chairman of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum, Kayode Fayemi, has been elected as the president of the Forum of Regions of Africa. Fayemi was elected on Friday in an election held in the city of Saidia in Morocco, Vanguard reports. The first edition of the FORAF...

  Speaker of the Ogun State House of Assembly, Olakunle Oluomo, has named his former Deputy, Dare Kadiri, as one of those behind his ordeals with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). While maintaining his innocence in the recent EFCC charges against him, Oluomo said “I will want the...

  may serve 621 years in prison if caught United States Attorney Jacqueline C. Romero has announced that Chidozie Collins Obasi, 29, of Nigeria, was charged by Indictment with one count of conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud, six counts of mail fraud, and 16 counts of wire fraud,...

  Former Nigerian President, Goodluck Jonathan; Labour Party (LP) presidential candidate, Peter Obi and the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Atiku Abubakar have paid tribute to Queen Elizabeth II after the UK’s longest-serving monarch died on Thursday. The Queen, who reigned for 70 years after coming to...

  The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arraigned the Speaker of the Ogun State House of Assembly, Oluomo Olakunle Taiwo, before Justice D.E. Osiagor of the Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos for an alleged N2.4billion fraud. Oluomo was arraigned alongside the Director of Finance, Ogun State...