The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has filed an appeal, challenging Wednesday’s ruling of the Federal High Court, Lagos which struck out its suit seeking the forfeiture of 14 properties and N400m linked to the Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello, citing his immunity from prosecution under the 1999 Constitution. In the ruling, Justice […]
The United Nations (UN) says the recent cash crunch in Nigeria affected the country’s economy. In a recent report, the inter-governmental organisation said the development which lasted for months mostly affected the informal sector. “In Nigeria, a shortage of cash, triggered by the replacement of the highest denominations of the country’s currency, hobbled the […]
Kenya authorities said Thursday they had arrested another pastor over suspected deaths at his church as police widen an investigation following dozens of deaths linked to a cult leader. Ezekiel Odero, the head of the New Life Prayer Centre and Church, was arrested in the coastal town of Malindi following “allegations of the […]
Osun State Governor, Ademola Adeleke, has recalled how the General Overseer of The Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, anointed him back in 2018 and predicted his emergence as governor. Adeleke, who spoke in Ifewara, Osun State, on Wednesday during the opening of Jennifer Etuh Medical Centre and Skills Acquisition Centre, both […]
The Indigenous People of Biafra, on Wednesday, lashed out at President Muhammadu Buhari saying his alleged ‘sins’ against Nigerians would never be forgiven. The separatist group, in a statement by its Director of Media and Publicity, Emma Powerful, was reacting to Buhari’s recent appeal that “all those that I have hurt, I ask that […]
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) on Wednesday in Abuja alerted Nigerians about a killer cough syrup, NATURCOLD. Its director-general, Mojisola Adeyeye, stated that the cough syrup already caused the death of six children in Cameroon. Ms Adeyeye stated that the cough syrup was not in NAFDAC’s database and […]
Gunmen have shot and killed a filling station manager in Enugu identified as Mr Fidelis Ogili. Ogili, a retired police officer was shot dead at the Favoured Queen Filling Station along Amechi Road in the Enugu metropolis. His assailants took away his car which was later recovered at Awgu in Awgu local government area […]
The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, yesterday said contractors handling the Kano-Zaria and Zaria-Kaduna roads, and the Second Niger Bridge projects would hand them over by May 15. He also told reporters after the Federal Executive Council meeting that the 116km Lagos-Ibadan Expressway with toll gates would be handed over on April […]
The Islamic State of the West African Province (ISWAP) has reportedly abducted three humanitarian workers and two security guards of the Family Health International (FHI360) in Borno. FHI 360 is a US-based nonprofit human development and non-governmental organisation (NGO) dedicated to improving the health and well-being of people According to Zagazola Makama, a counter-insurgency […]
A writer told a US civil trial Wednesday that an alleged sexual assault by Donald Trump three decades ago left her feeling “ashamed” and unable to have romantic relationships. “I’m here because Donald Trump raped me,” E. Jean Carroll said in Manhattan’s federal court, which is hearing a defamation and battery lawsuit against the […]
