The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) says it has uncovered the new strategy used by human traffickers to evade security checks and avoid suspicion by using the Economic Community of West Africa States (ECOWAS) Travel Certificate (ETC) as a travel document to transport their victims to any of the ECOWAS Member States to evade stringent […]
Guaranty Trust Bank (GTBank) says it will suspend international transactions on its naira Mastercard from Saturday, December 31, 2022. The bank made this known in a statement to its customers on Thursday. It said customers will be unable to make international automated teller machine (ATM), and point of sales (POS) transactions on their naira […]
The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) has expressed reservations about the way the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) is handling the case of Bolanle Raheem, a lawyer shot dead in Lagos on December 25. Raheem, the lead consultant of Croston Homes, was killed in an incident involving a police officer, now identified as Drambi Vandi, around […]
President Muhammadu Buhari says the Ajaokuta steel company is ready to be concessioned to private investors. Buhari disclosed this while inaugurating several projects in Kogi on Thursday. The projects include: the Reference Hospital, Okene; the newly-built Ohinoyi’s palace, and the Confidence University of Science and Technology, Osara. In Lokoja, Buhari inaugurated the Ganaja flyover […]
The Police Service Commission (PSC) has approved the suspension of an Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP), Drambi Vandi over the killing of a Lagos-based lawyer, Bolanle Raheem. The PSC spokesman, Ikechukwu Ani, in a statement on Thursday, said the suspension of the cop is with “immediate effect”. Vandi, who was attached to the Ajiwe […]
Men of the Ogun State Police Command have rescued a suspected Internet fraudster, Haruna Usman, abducted by his colleagues for withholding proceeds of their crime. Our correspondent gathered that the kidnapped fraudster reportedly released N2,200,000 to other members of his syndicate out of the N26,437,950 allegedly obtained from a victim in the state. The […]
The Anambra Traders’ Forum (ATF), has called on Prof. Chukwuma Soludo of Anambra State to reverse with immediate effect the appointment of Chief Humphrey Anuna (Onwa na Oraeri) as the President-General of traders in the State. The traders’ group also called on the Governor to put machinery in motion for the entire traders in […]
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President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday said he was “deeply saddened” by the passing of Professor George Obiozor, the President General of Ohaneze Ndigbo, worldwide. The President, in a statement issued by his spokesman, Femi Adesina, condoled with Obiozor’s family, the government and the people of Imo State as well as Ndigbo, at home and […]
Bandits have reportedly killed many residents and abducted over 50 others during attacks on communities in Goronyo, Gada and Sabon Birni LGAs of Sokoto state. Speaking with TheCable, Lukman Iliyasu, a resident of Sabon Birni, said the attacks took place between Monday and Wednesday. Iliyasu said the bandits invaded the communities in large numbers, […]
