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The Enugu Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on November 2, 2023, secured the conviction and sentencing of 22 (twenty-two) internet fraudsters before Justice Nnamdi Dimgba of the Federal High Court sitting in Awka, Anambra State. They were convicted on separate count charges bordering on impersonation...

  Picture caption: L – R Oluwatoyin Adenugba, Head, Rules and Adjudication, NGX Regulation; Jude Chiemeka, Executive Director, Capital Markets, Nigerian Exchange Limited (NGX); Temi Popoola, Chief Executive Officer, NGX; Samir Udani , Chairman, Mecure Industries Plc; Felix Anaje, Executive Director, Sales and Marketing, Mecure Industries Plc; Dukor Anderline -...

President Bola Tinubu has launched the Electronic Civil Registration and Vital Statistics System (e-CRVS), alongside the National Geospatial Data Repository and the National Coordination Committee on CRVS. The CRVS is the government system to record, in a continuous, permanent, compulsory and universal manner, the occurrences and characteristics of vital and...

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has instructed its branches nationwide to continue issuing both old and redesigned naira notes in ample quantities to deposit money banks. The directive comes on the heels of reports of cash scarcity in major cities despite earlier assurances from the CBN about sufficient cash...

An Abuja High Court on Wednesday, granted former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele bail following his recent arrest and detention by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). In his ruling, president of the court, Justice Olukayode Adeniyi, ordered the EFCC to release Emefiele to...

  The President of the Trade Union Congress (TUC), Festus Osifo, has said that his colleague in the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Joe Ajaero, was not in Imo State on November 1, 2023 for politics but to fight for the rights of aggrieved workers in the state. Osifo, who was...

The Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2023 presidential election, Atiku Abubakar has charged residents of Kogi, Bayelsa and Imo states to troop out en mass to cast their votes despite his dissatisfaction with the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). In a statement released on his...

The presidential candidate of the Labour Party, LP, Peter Obi, says the attitude of President Bola Tinubu’s administration does not indicate that it is aware that the country is in a huge crisis. Obi also accused the government of leaving out the most pressing national needs and emergencies in the...

President Bola Tinubu signed the N2.176 trillion Supplementary Appropriation Act on Wednesday in Abuja to strengthen Nigeria’s security architecture and address the critical infrastructure deficit, amongst other considerations. According to a statement by the presidential spokesperson, Ajuri Ngelale, the president signed the Supplementary Appropriation Act, 2023, in his office at...

  Bishop Matthew Kukah, the Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, has expressed shock at what former ministers who worked with former President Muhammadu Buhari are saying about him and his administration. The Catholic Bishop stated this in an interview on Arise Television on Wednesday, adding that he had no personal...