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The South-West, South-East, South-South and Middle Belt leaders on Tuesday faulted the appointment of Abdulrasheed Bawa as the new Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, describing him as unfit for the anti-graft agency. The leaders in a statement signed by Dr Yinka Odumakin of the Afenifere, Chief Guy Ikokwu, Senator Bassey Henshaw, […]
A Nigerian entrepreneur and a Forbes Africa 30 Under 30 honoree Obinwanne Okeke has been sentenced to a 10-year jail term for computer and wire fraud by an American court. Popularly known as Invictus Obi, Okeke was found guilty of causing approximately $11 million in known losses to his victims between 2015 and 2019. […]
A former member of the House of Representatives, Ned Nwoko, has threatened to sue PREMIUM TIMES over an investigative story on his controversial acquisition of 90 hectares of land for a private university in his hometown, Udumuje-Ugboko in Delta State. The two-part story published last December exposed how Mr Nwoko, a member of the […]
Former governor of Ogun State, Otunba Gbenga Daniel, has joined the ruling All Progressive Congress, APC. Gbenga was a front row member of the main opposition party, Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, having led the campaign team of defeated presidential candidate, Abubakar Atiku. Daniel is expected to pick up the membership card of APC before the […]
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 […]
NASA’s latest Mars rover is approaching its final descent to the surface. Perseverance, the largest vehicle ever to attempt to land on the Red Planet, is due to touch down on 18 February. Landing on Mars is difficult: about 60 per cent of the missions that have tried it to date have failed. Perseverance will […]
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 […]
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