archiveOctober 16, 2023

Operatives of the Uyo Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, have arrested forty-six(46) suspected internet fraudsters at different locations within Calabar, Cross River State and Eket Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State. While the Calabar suspects were arrested on October 13, 2023,  their Eket counterparts...

The Lagos State Domestic and Sexual Violence Agency has launched a mobile app and web portal for stakeholders to track, monitor, and manage gender-related cases in the state. The agency said the Lagos DSVCMS app is available on Android, iOS, and Web Apps to help relevant agencies provide seamless and...

    The Federal Government has projected a sum of N26 trillion as the estimate for the 2024 appropriation budget, with the intention of submitting the proposal to the National Assembly before December 31, 2023. Business247 News reports that the Minister of Planning and Budget, Atiku Bagudu, disclosed this while...

The family of late Remilekun Toyosi Meshioye, a Nigerian student who died aboard Egyptair  in Cairo on her way to London, has rolled out her burial plans. The family said her remains will arrive Lagos on Wednesday afternoon. In a statement by Abdur-Rahman Balogun, Head of Media, Public Relations and...

Acting executive chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), Zacch Adedeji, has tasked staff of the agency to key into his vision of making the revenue body one that rests on the accuracy of data for its operations and has merit as its signpost. In a statement issued by...

Operatives of the Lagos Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) have arrested Chike Nosa Agada, an unlicensed foreign exchange dealer, for an alleged N2 billion fraud. Agada, a 37-year old native of Udi Local Government Area of Enugu State, was declared wanted by the Commission on...

A Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Femi Falana, has disclosed that the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) collected approximately 3.2 trillion Naira from various sources but had only printed 402 billion Naira when it tried to phase out the old N200, N500 and N100 notes with new ones. Speaking on...

The presidential candidate of the Labour Party in the last election, Peter Obi, has advised the Federal Government to invest heavily in agriculture in a bid to end the lingering food crisis in the country. The former Anambra governor made the remark in a statement issued on Monday to commemorate...

  Nigeria has the highest number of homeless people in the world   According to data from World Population Review, 24 million people in the country do not have a place to live. The report opens by stating that Nigeria is the most populous country in Africa, resulting in the...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Monday, gave reasons why it withheld alleged stashed loot that its operatives recovered from the home of a former Group Managing Director, GMD, of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, Mr. Andrew Yakubu. Yakubu served as the GMD of the NNPC between...