archiveMarch 2024

  Bandits on Thursday morning, stormed LGEA Primary School, Kuriga (1), Chikun Local Government Area of Kaduna State and kidnapped scores of pupils and teachers. It was gathered that the incident happened at about 8:20 am immediately after the morning assembly. Locals said the Headteacher of the school and some...

Justice Evelyn Anyadike of the Federal High Court in Ilorin has convicted and sentenced three currency racketeers to various jail terms   for selling new naira notes to the public for commercial purposes. The convicts are:  Asmau Sallah Wuraola, Owoduni Abdullahi Isa (a.k.a Bolaji) and  Shuaibu Rukayat. They were jailed on...

    A total of four thousand, four hundred and twelve new lawyers were on Monday called to the Nigerian Bar. The new legal practitioners were inaugurated at the Body of Benchers Headquarters in Abuja by the Chairman, of the body, Justice Mary Ukaego Peter Odili, a retired Supreme Court...

    The United Arab Emirates has lifted the visa restriction on Nigerian travellers. The resumption took effect from March 4, 2024. The Special Adviser on Information and Strategy to the President, Bayo Onanuga, disclosed this in a statement posted on his  X on Tuesday. It would be recalled that...

Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State has announced an increase in bursary payments to state indigenes in tertiary institutions. Sanwo-Olu said this at his one-day parley with student union leaders and stakeholders. The parley, themed “Students as Strategic Partners in the Governance Process: Challenges and Prospects for Youth Development,” took...

The Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lieutenant General Taoreed Lagbaja, has restated the commitment of the Nigerian military to defend Nigeria’s democracy. He said the military has come to terms with the country’s choice of democracy as the preferred system of governance. The COAS said this at a seminar on...

The Nigerian government has reacted to criticism that followed Nigeria's acceptance of 25,000 tonnes of wheat from Ukraine. Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris, says the fact that Nigeria accepted grains from Ukraine does not make Nigeria a weak or failed state. Ukraine, which is in the throes...

His Excellency, The Executive Governor of Osun State, Senator (Dr) Ademola  Adeleke will, on Thursday, 7th of March, 2024, officially flag off the 5.68km Erin Osun - Egbedi- Osogbo/Iwo express road project to be embarked upon by his administration. The project is one of the inter-city roads as officially pronounced...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) says banks were involved in about 70 per cent of financial crimes committed in Nigeria. Speaking in Abuja at the 2023 Annual Retreat and General Meeting of the Association of Chief Audit Executives of Banks in Nigeria on Monday in Abuja, EFCC Chairman,...

The Executive Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mr. Ola Olukoyede has called on Audit Executives in banks across the country to be more vigilant and assertive in tackling financial crimes in the banking sector. He gave the charge in Abuja on Monday, March 4, 2024 at...