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Court Grants EFCC Order to Freeze 1146 Suspicious Accounts
Justice Emeka Nwite of the Federal High Court Abuja, has granted the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) an interim order to freeze One Thousand, One Hundred and Forty Six (1,146) bank accounts belonging to individuals and companies being investigated…
Extravagant Overseas Events: PRP Tackles Northern Governors, Other Government Officials
The Peoples Redemption Party (PRP) has strongly condemned the recent attendance of some Northern Governors at a symposium on insecurity held in the United States of America, instead of within the Northern region where the issue persists. The party Acting…
SERAP Sues NNPC Over Alleged Missing $2.04bn, N164bn Oil Revenues
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has filed a lawsuit against the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited over the “failure to account for and explain the whereabouts of the alleged missing USD$2.04 billion and N164 billion oil revenues.”…
Naira to Dollar Rate: BDCs Proffer Solutions To Depreciation
Bureaux De Change Operators (BDCs) under the umbrella of the Association of Bureaux De Change Operators of Nigeria (ABCON), has revealed plans for a unified retail end of the foreign currency market to tackle the recent Naira depreciation. The president…
Customs Area 1 PH Hits N43 Billion Revenue Generation in First Quarter of 2024
By Bon Peters The Nigeria Customs Service Area 1 Command Port Harcourt, Rivers state says the Command has generated and collected the sum of ₦43,625,986,168.40 in the First Quarter of 2024. The figure represented a 23.68 per cent of the…
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Unity Bank Marks Global Money Week, Engages Students on Financial Literacy
Unity Bank Plc has engaged students from all the geopolitical zones of the federation as it facilitated financial literacy training in 15 schools as part of activities to mark the 2024 Global Money Week. The Financial Literacy Training was held…
Naira to Dollar Rate: BDCs Proffer Solutions To Depreciation
Bureaux De Change Operators (BDCs) under the umbrella of the Association of Bureaux De Change Operators of Nigeria (ABCON), has revealed plans for a unified retail end of the foreign currency market to tackle the recent Naira depreciation. The president…
Customs Area 1 PH Hits N43 Billion Revenue Generation in First Quarter of 2024
By Bon Peters The Nigeria Customs Service Area 1 Command Port Harcourt, Rivers state says the Command has generated and collected the sum of ₦43,625,986,168.40 in the First Quarter of 2024. The figure represented a 23.68 per cent of the…
Delta to Commence Another Round of Palliatives Distribution — Egbo
Coordinator of Subsidy Palliatives Committee in Delta State, and Special Adviser to the Governor on Transportation, Olorogun Jaro Egbo, has disclosed that the state government will soon commence another round of palliatives distribution to mitigate hardship occasioned by federal government…
Food Crisis: NDE Trains 50 Unemployed On Modern Agriculture
In line with the renewed efforts of the Federal Government to revamp the country’s agricultural sector, the National Directorate of Employment (NDE) in Oyo State has kicked off the year 2024 Sustainable Agricultural Development Training Scheme (SADTS)Speaking on behalf of…
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Naira Abuse: Cubana Chief Priest Arraigned, Pleads Not Guilty, Granted N10 Bail
Celebrity businessman, Pascal Okechukwu, popularly known as Cubana Chief Priest, who arrived at the Federal High Court, Lagos, on Wednesday morning, for his arraignment for allegedly abusing the Naira notes, have been granted bail. He is facing a three-count charge…
Davido Acquires New Bombardier 7500 Private Jet Sparking Internet Controversy
Music sensation Davido has made the headlines again with the revelation of his latest acquisition, a Bombardier 7500 private jet, reportedly the third private jet. Tribune Online reports that the move that has set tongues wagging and eyebrows raising. Taking…
Top Nigerian Comedian, Wife Welcome Triplets
Top Nigerian Comedian, Atunyota Alleluya Akpobome, popularly known as Alibaba ,and his wife Mary, have welcomed a set of triplets. Alibaba announced the news on Monday through an Instagram post, revealing that the newborns, all boys, became part of the…
Nigerian Actor & Director, Zack Orji’s Death Rumoured As AGN Fumes
Amid trending death rumour of the ailing Nigerian actor and film director, Zack Orji, the Actors’ Guild of Nigeria (AGN) has insisted that Nollywood actor is not dead. The President of the Guild, Emeka Rollas, in an Instagram post wrote:…
Nollywood Star Amaechi Muonagor Dies At 61, What You May Not Know About Him
A Nigerian Nollywood actor and producer, Amaechi Muonagor, is dead. He died today, March 24, after suffering from kidney-related issues, diabetes, and stroke at the age of 61. He was born on 20 August 1962 and would have turned 62…
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Continental Students’ Body Expresses Interest in Siriman Niaré Case In Letter Colonel Goïta
Continental Students movement and the umbrella body for all national students’ unions in Africa, under the auspices of the All-Africa Stucents Unian (AASU), has expressed interest in a case involving a student activist, Comrade Siriman Niaré, in a letter to…
Senator Barau Emerges Speaker Of ECOWAS Parliament
The Deputy President of the Nigerian Senate, Barau Jibrin, has emerged as the acting Speaker of the Sixth Legislature of the Parliament of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). The Parliament which was established under Articles 6 and…
Africa Games: Tobi Amusan Wins Women’s 100m Hurdles Heat
Tobi Amusan has won the women’s 100m hurdles Round 1 heat at the 13th Africa Games in Ghana. Amusan, the Nigerian sprint icon, won the heat with a time of 13.03s, securing a spot in the semis of the women’s…
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Delta Scholarship Board 2023 Report And Oborevwori’s Human Capital Development Story
By Monday Uwagwu Recently in Asaba, the state capital, the Delta State Scholarship Board unfolded data on its operation for the 2022/2023 academic year.Going by the data released in the press release issued on its behalf by its Executive Secretary,…
UNN VC Position: It is Time for Nsukka Indigene
By Emmanuel Ikechukwu Jonathan The University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN) was founded by His Excellency, Late Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe in 1955. It formally opened for academic programme on October 7, 1960, six days after Nigeria’s Independence. The University of Nigeria…
Are More Marriages Really Breaking?
According to the United Nations statistics, there are an estimated one billion married couples in the world as of 2021. One billion. Keep that in mind! The latest official figures from the National Bureau of Statistics in Nigeria, show that,…
One Day, Someday….
No matter how you love and protect her, if you like use the Rottweiler or even satellites to monitor her and ensure a man doesn’t come near that your little daughter or touch her, a day is coming when you,…
PBAT: Where is Yari?
It was the gathering of our political gladiators at the table of our Chief Chef, Baker and Divider of the Nigeria cake, 27 of them were seating Governors out of 36, along with leadership of the Nation’s Assembly led by…