Beyond the Headlines
The International Centre for Investigative Reporting, on Thursday, expressed concerns over an invitation letter addressed to one of its journalists, Nurudeen Akewushola, and the organisation’s “managing directors” by the Nigeria Police Force National Cybercrime Centre. The organisation said the letter from the police, which it received on Wednesday, May 15, 2024, was dated April […]
Atedo Peterside, founder of Stanbic IBTC Bank Plc and Anap Foundation, has faulted the payment of N90 billion to subsidise the cost of the 2024 hajj pilgrimage by the federal government. Speaking in an interview on Channels Television on Thursday, Peterside said he has no personal issue with pilgrimage, noting that the religious tradition […]
The federation account allocation committee (FAAC) says the three tiers of government shared N1.2 trillion in April. This was contained in a communiqué issued at the end of the FAAC meeting for May 2024 by Bawa Mokwa, director of press and public relations in the office of the accountant-general of the federation (OAGF), on […]
Chad’s constitutional council has announced Mahamat Déby as the winner of the May 6 presidential election. The announcement on Thursday, confirmed preliminary results from the country’s National Election Management Agency last week. The declaration of Déby as the winner came after the council dismissed challenges by two candidates — Succès Masra, prime minister, and […]
A federal high court in Lagos has struck out a case against the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) over its directive requiring banks to collect and verify social media handles as part of their know-your-customer (KYC) requirement. In June 2023, the apex bank issued the directive, saying the aim is to prevent financial crime, […]
The Nigerian Education Loan Fund, NELFUND, has announced May 24, 2024, as the official date for the opening of the portal for student loan applications. It explained that through the portal, students can now access loans to pursue their academic aspirations without financial constraints. The Fund announced this in a statement, Thursday night […]
Dangote refinery plans to buy 24 million barrels of crude from the United States over the next year as it increases processing rates. According to a report on Thursday by Bloomberg, the plant issued a “term tender” for the purchase of two million barrels of West Texas Intermediate (WTI) Midland crude a month. The […]
The speakers of Nigeria’s 36 state houses of assembly have supported the ongoing process by the national assembly to create state police. The speakers made their resolution known at the end of a meeting in Abuja on Thursday. The two chambers of the national assembly are working to amend some provisions of the 1999 […]
Ola Olukoyede, chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), says some youths who trade in cryptocurrencies do not know that they are being used to fund terrorism in Nigeria. Olukoyede spoke on Wednesday during a multi-stakeholders’ national dialogue on preventing terrorism financing and violent extremism. The EFCC chair said some of the […]
The United Kingdom Home Office has told a retired 74-year-old Ghanaian man, Nelson Shardey who has lived in the UK for 42 years that he is not British. According to BBC, the Home Office asked him to wait another 10 years before he could stay permanently. Shardey, from Wallasey in Wirral, had for many […]
