archiveApril 3, 2023

The Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, Otunba Adeniyi Adebayo says the ministry will soon submit a new auto policy for the approval of the Federal Executive Council (FEC). The minister said this when the Senior Executive Course 45 participants of the National Institute of Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPSS)...

Operatives of the Enugu Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC), on Monday, April 3, 2023, arrested twenty one suspected internet fraudsters in the Emene and New Kenyata, axis of Enugu. The suspects are Kenneth Arinze Godfrey, Anichukwu Emmanuel Aku, Michael Israel Chukwuemeka, Anichukwu Obinna Christian Eze...

Youths of the Labour Party have asked those calling for the arrest of its presidential candidate, Mr Peter Obi, and his running mate, Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed, to stop immediately. At a press conference in Owerri, Imo State, Sunday, the National Youth Leader of Labour Party, Prince Kennedy Ahanotu, said the...

Figures obtained from the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) have revealed that the country’s external reserves fell by $1.46 billion between January and February, 2023. The value stood at $36.67bn February 27, 2023. According the CBN data, the figures which stood at $36.99 billion on January, 1, 2023, fell to...

Senate Chief Whip Orji Uzor Kalu has lost his wife, Mrs. Ifeoma Ada Kalu. Ifeoma was said to have died in the United States of America. Announcing her death on his verified Facebook page, Kalu announced his wife died at 61. The former Abia Governor described his late wife as...

  Human right lawyer, Dr. Olisa Agbakoba, SAN, has called for speedy conclusion of the presidential election tribunal possibly before the May 29 inauguration day. According to him, in a press statement on Monday, “The tension around the call for an interim government is that the presidential election petition may...

A Lagos High Court has dismissed the ‘no case submission’ filed by a suspended Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP), Drambi Vandi, accused of killing Lagos-based lawyer Bolanle Raheem. Vandi shot and killed the lawyer on December 25, 2022, while she was returning from Christmas Day church service in the Ajah...

  Leadway Assurance, a leading Nigerian insurance company, recorded a total premium collection of N104.4 billion, becoming the first in the nation insurance sector  to cross three digit billion mark in 2022. The company said that it grossed a Written Premium of N92.5 billion, Savings and Investment income of iN10.8...

The Kaduna State Government has announced immediate imposition of 24-hour curfew on Sabon Garin Nassarawa-Tirkaniya area of Chikun LGA. Commissioner, for Ministry of Internal Security and Home Affairs, Samuel Aruwan, announced this in a statement on Monday. He said the decision was reached following a breakdown of law and order...

Controversial hip hop artist, Habeeb Okikiola, popularly known as Portable was on Monday sent to the prison pending the perfection of bail conditions granted to him by the court on alleged assualt. He was arraigned before at the Magistrate Court sitting in Ifo in Ifo Local government area of Ogun...