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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has charged ex-Lagos Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Supo Shasore (SAN), for money laundering. The EFCC filed four count charges against the founding partner of Africa Law Practice NG & Co. before the Federal High Court in Lagos. 58-year-old Shasore is accused of inducing one Olufolakemi […]
Nigerian Senate President, Dr Ahmad Ibrahim Lawan has said that the 2023 appropriation bill of N20.5 trillion which was presented to the joint session of the lawmakers by President Muhammadu Buhari last Friday would be passed into law in December. Lawan disclosed this at a reception organised for him on Tuesday after he […]
The United Kingdom is looking at tightening the rules on how many relatives migrants can bring into the country. According to Home Office figures, Nigerians accounted for the highest increase in the number of dependants accompanying persons with study visas for the year ending in June 2022. It has been discovered that Nigerian […]
Lois Arzurfa, one of the freed victims of the Kaduna train attack, says she is willing to put the experience behind her. In an interview with Punch on Monday, Arzurfa recounted the ordeal she and 60 others faced in over six months of captivity. Speaking from a hospital bed in Kaduna, she narrated […]
Thousands of Haitians demonstrated Monday in Port-au-Prince to protest against the government and its call for foreign assistance to deal with endemic insecurity, a humanitarian crisis and a burgeoning cholera epidemic. A day after UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called for immediate deployment of a special international armed force in Haiti to help the […]
The Delta State Police Command has arrested three nurses at a private hospital in Asaba, the state capital. It was gathered that the hospital had confirmed dead a newborn brought by the parents for treatment on Sunday. The next day, the family reportedly brought back the child, alleging that his eyes, nose and ear […]
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation Limited (NNPC) says the recently-detected illegal connection was on the Trans Escravos pipeline looped to the 4-kilometre Afremo test line. Last Tuesday, Mele Kyari, group chief executive officer (GCEO), NNPC Limited, had said the nine-year illegal 4-kilometre (km) pipeline was from Forcados terminal to the sea. “The most […]
The presidential candidate of the All Progressive Congress, Bola Tinubu says the Peoples Democratic Party can never return to power. Tinubu said this at the inauguration of the APC women’s campaign council in Abuja on Monday, describing the PDP as a party of “termites.” He also claimed that the major opposition party […]
No fewer than 101 suspected Boko Haram terrorists have been allegedly released from the Kirikiri Medium Security Prison, Lagos State. According to an online platform, Foundation for Investigative Journalism, wardens at the facility let them out as part of a swap deal for the release of travellers who were abducted in Kaduna on […]
Following the judgement of the Appeal Court that ordered the Academic Staff Union of Universities to end its strike, the union has said it would review the judgment to determine its next line of action. CrownFM had reported that the appeal court on Friday 7, October 2022, gave a rule for the union […]
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