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President Muhammadu Buhari has asked the Senate to confirm Mr Abdulrasheed Bawa as substantive Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crime Commission, EFCC. The President who in a letter to the Senate President, Ahmad Ibrahim Lawan, stated that he was acting in accordance with Paragraph 2(3) of Part1, CAP E1 of EFCC Act 2004. […]
Nigeria’s former Finance Minister, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala on Monday was confirmed as the next Director-General of the World Trade Organisation. She is the first woman and the first African to lead the international trade body. Her term is scheduled to start on March 1. The term, which is renewable, will expire on August 31, 2025. “This […]
The Pan Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF) has dispelled rumours that its national leader, Chief Edwin Clark, is dead. The National Publicity Secretary of PANDEF, Hon. Ken Robinson, in a statement issued yesterday described the speculation as malicious falsehood aimed at causing confusion within its chairman board of trustees’ constituency. “PANDEF was inundated with anxious […]
Rising crude oil theft and illegal refineries in the Niger Delta creeks have been attributed to alleged complicity of Nigerian Uniformed personnel and criminals bent on sabotaging the nation’s economy. Media sources learnt that some alleged naval officers who know the locations of illegal refineries usually receive gratifications not to close down crude oil […]
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has reported 520 new cases of corona virus (COVID-19), this makes the total number of infected people in the country to 146,184. The NCDC disclosed this figure on its official Twitter handle on Sunday. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that with the 520 fresh cases in […]
Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Godwin Emefiele is expected to appear before the House of Representatives’ Public Accounts Committee to render the bank’s audited accounts this Thursday. Chairman of the Committee, Wole Oke, said they would be expected to render accounts from 2014 to 2019. Oke said they had written to […]
President Muhammadu Buhari has vowed that his government will protect all religious and ethnic groups, whether majority or minority in line with its responsibility under the constitution. In a reaction to reports of breakout of violence in some parts of the country by some ethnic and sectional groups, President Buhari warned that the government […]
Following the invasion of Professor Wole Soyinka’s Abeokuta residence by herdsmen and their cattle, the Noble Laureate, yesterday, berated Ogun State Police command for lying over the incident. In a statement he personally signed in Abeokuta, Soyinka said, “Cattle imperialism under any guise is an obscenity to humanity.” He promised to commence a process […]
Commercial and social activities were temporarily disrupted yesterday after factional groups of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) engaged one another in a free-for-all at Obalende, a suburb in Lagos Island. The cause of the fight is yet to be ascertained, but sources said it might not be unconnected to leadership tussle. It […]
The Senate has called on the Federal Government to direct states on the implementation of the National Livestock Transformation Plan, which is aimed at establishing ranches and eliminating open grazing. The upper chamber of the National Assembly also berated governors negotiating with bandits, saying such negotiations were fuelling banditry. The senators stated these on […]
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