archiveSeptember 2022

Today, Meta announced the launch of the AMBER Alert Programme on Facebook and Instagram in Nigeria. Working in partnership with the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP), this programme is aimed at helping to find abducted children by sending AMBER Alerts to the local Facebook and...

The Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike and his allies have boycotted the official inauguration of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Presidential Campaign Council. Governors in the Wike group that snub the inauguration include Governors Samuel Ortom (Benue); Seyi Makinde (Oyo); Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi (Enugu) and Okezie Ikpeazu (Abia). Other party chieftains...

The Ilorin Zonal Command of the Economic And Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC)  has arraigned  a 53 -year old  civil servant: Oyawoye R. Olajumoke Fafemi,  for allegedly defrauding  23 (twenty three) church members seeking  employment. Fafemi, a staff of Kwara State Ministry of Finance, was arraigned  before Justice Mohammed Sani of...

  Due to economic downturn in some African countries, the prices of staple food in the sub-Saharan Africa have surged by an average of 23.9 per cent in 2020-22, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has said in a report. According to a report by Cedric Okou, John Spray, and D....

Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), says the national grid will not experience frequent collapses if he is elected president of the country. It would be recalled that on Monday, the national grid experienced yet collapsed, making the recent one the seventh time in 2022. Reacting...

    The Federal Executive Council (FEC) has approved N580.5 million for the procurement of four armoured vehicles to fight dangerous and illicit drugs by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA). Minister of Justice and Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami made this known to State House correspondents...

The University of Calabar (Unical) has distanced itself from embattled kidnap kingpin, John Ewa, popularly known as John Lyon, saying it was never its student. Recall that John was arrested last Sunday by operatives of the Nigeria Police in Abuja, the Federal and on interrogation he claimed to have schooled...

A Federal High Court in Damaturu, Yobe State on Wednesday ruled that Nigeria’s Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, is not the candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) for Yobe North Senatorial District in next year’s election into the National Assembly. The court ruled that Bashir Machina is the authentic...

Federal High Court in Lagos has ruled that supporters of the Labour Party (LP) Presidential Candidate Peter Obi can only march through the Lekki tollgate but were not allowed to converge there for their rally. The order was given by Daniel Osiagor of the court in Lagos on Wednesday. Ten...

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) said it has recovered N3.7 trillion out of the N9.3 trillion it lent to different sectors of the economy under its Development Interventions Programme. The Director of Development Finance Department, Dr Yusuf Yila disclosed this on Wednesday in Abuja at the post-MPC briefing of...