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The Executive Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Mr. Ola Olukoyede, has urged Nigerian youths to steer clear of fraudulent activities, particularly internet fraud and channel their creativity into productive and legitimate ventures. Olukoyede made this call on Wednesday, February 19, 2025 at the inauguration ceremony of...

The Universal Service Provision Fund (USPF) of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has handed over a new Information and Communication Technology (ICT) project to Ogun State Institute of Technology (OGITECH), Igbesa, Ogun State. The project named: Emerging Technologies Centre (ETC), sited on the Institute’s campus, is aimed at enhancing learning...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Uyo Zonal Directorate, on Wednesday, February 12, 2025, arraigned a legal practitioner Barrister Alexander Uchenna Ozougwu before Justice Sergius Onah of the Federal High Court sitting in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, for allegedly defrauding his victims to the tune of N1, 323, 850....

● says Osun remains a peaceful state Governor Ademola Adeleke of Osun state has tasked politicians to abide by the rule of law even as he urged voters to peacefully exercise their rights at the Saturday local government elections. In a statewide broadcast today from Osogbo, the State Governor declared...

President Bola Tinubu on Thursday recalled how he once challenged the former military President, Ibrahim Babangida, and told him that he failed to make history. Babangida, former military dictator, ruled Nigeria from 1985 to 1993. He is renowned for annulling the June 12, 1993 presidential election believed by many to...

• as society celebrates 64 years of existence A research Director of the National Agency for Science and Engineering Infrastructure (NASENI), Engr. Dr. Samuel Olugbenga O. Olusunle has been conferred with the prestigious Fellow of Nigerian Mining and Geosciences Society (FNMGS), one of the oldest professional bodies in the history...

The Federal Ministry of Transportation has refuted a story purporting an imminent launch of a “Lagos-Abuja High-Speed Bullet Train that will reduce travel time between both cities from 12 hours to just two to three hours”. In a rejoinder issued by the management of the ministry in Abuja, it stated...

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has advised former military President and Head of State, General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida to expect diverse criticism of his new literary work – “A Journey in Service”. He disclosed this on Thursday in Abuja while declaring open the public presentation of the book and fundraising for...

The former Military President, General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida (rtd), has openly admitted that the late Chief Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola won the June 12, 1993 presidential election conducted by his government. General Babangida’s public admission is contained in his autobiography titled “A Journey In Service”, which was launched in Abuja...

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Thursday resolved to retain the Monetary Policy Rate (MPR), the benchmark interest rate, at 27.50 per cent with the asymmetric corridor of +500/-100 basis points around the MPR. The apex bank, also left all monetary policy tools unchanged, including the Cash Reserve Ratio (CRR)...