President Bola Tinubu has described the death of Elder Statesman and Business Icon, Alhaji Aminu Alhassan Dantata as a monumental national loss. Tinubu while also mourning the passing of Dantata, noted the business mogul, and philanthropist made sterling contributions to Nigeria’s economic growth and development. President Tinubu sends his heartfelt condolences to the Dantata family,…
The Nigerian Air Force announced Friday that it had killed scores of terrorists, known locally as bandits, in north-central Niger State. The military statement did not specify how many terrorists were killed in the operations, however, multiple military sources reported that a huge casualties were suffered by the bandits during the air assaults. The bandits…
A Federal High Court in Lagos, on Friday convicted and sentenced 14 Chinese for cyber-terrorism and internet fraud to one year imprisonment as well as ordered their repatriation at the completion of their jail. The Justice Daniel Osiagor court also fined the defendants N1,000,000.00 (One Million Naira). “All the defendants were sentenced to one year…
The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has resigned from his position, effective immediately. His resignation on Friday has thrown the Nigerian political space into confusion. The APC’s national chairman’s resignation has also left many surprised. However, the former Governor of Kano State, cited health reasons for his decision, stating that he needs…
Nigeria’s President Bola Tinubu has signed four finance bills into law in a set of major reforms aimed at restructuring the tax system in Africa’s most populous nation. The government says the new laws will simplify revenue collection, reduce the tax burden on some individuals and businesses, while also helping to raise much-needed government income…
From June 26 to 28, newborns to children aged 5 years will be vaccinated in provinces of Kinshasa, Tanganyika, Haut-Lomami, Kongo Central, Haut-Katanga, as well as those up to 15 years old in Tshopo and Maniema. Health authorities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo launched the second phase of a mass polio vaccination campaign…
The Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mr. Olayemi Cardoso, has underscored the importance of institutional resilience as a vital foundation for building strong and lasting African institutions. Speaking at the opening of the 2025 Annual Meetings of the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) on Wednesday, in Abuja, he emphasised that resilience must be…
The First Prosecuting Witness, PW1, William Abimbola, in the matter of former Deputy Director, Highways, Federal Ministry of Works and Housing, Augustine Ojo Olowoniyan, alongside a surveyor, Sulaiman Abdulkadir Muhammed of the Department of Highways and Planning on Monday, told Justice Jude Onwuegbuzie of the Federal High Court Abuja, how funds made for the ministry`s…
A Federal High Court, Lagos on Monday sentenced 17 Chinese nationals to one year imprisonment each for cyber-terrorism. The court presided over by Justices D. E.Osiagor and Justice D.I. Dipeolu also convicted the accused for internet fraud in a suit brought before it by the Lagos Zonal Directorate 2 of the Economic and Financial Crimes…
The Port Harcourt Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Thursday, arraigned one Dr. Nekabari Dambere Nathan, a Port Harcourt-based medical doctor before Justice P. I. Ajoku of the Federal High Court, sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State for fraud. Nathan was arraigned alongside his Global Horizons Academy Ltd on a…
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