According to a letter to that effect that was released on Tuesday morning and signed by the Secretary to the State Government, Osarodion Ogie, the drama surrounding the transfer of Edo State deputy governor, comrade Philip Shaibu’s office outside the government house may have come to an end. On Monday, when he was locked out, Shaibu denied knowing that his office had been moved, pointing out that he had not received a letter ordering him...
The Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre has accused the administration of President Tinubu of taking a cavalier attitude regarding the steadily increasing debt profile of the country. “the figure represents an increase of 75.29%, or N37.53tn, compared to N49.85tn recorded at the end of March 2023,” said the Executive Director of CISLAC, Auwal Ibrahim Musa (Rafsanjani), in a statement issued on Saturday. He voiced his concerns over Nigeria’s startling increase in debt, which has ballooned...
The Nigerian President, Bola Tinubu, will leave Abuja on Sunday to travel to New York, United States, to take part in the 78th session of the United Nations General Assembly. While there, he will focus on enhancing Nigeria’s economic connections and recruiting Foreign Direct Investments to the country. Ajuri Ngelale, who serves as Tinubu’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, made this information public on Friday when he addressed State House Correspondents on the President’s...
Dr. Olayemi Michael Cardoso has been appointed by President Bola Tinubu to be the new Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), with a term of five (5) years at the outset, pending approval. This order complies with Section 8(1) of the Central Bank of Nigeria Act, 2007, which grants the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria the power to appoint the Governor and four (4) Deputy Governors for the Central Bank of...
The Labour Party leadership reprimanded Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka for saying that the party was trying to trick Nigerians into thinking that Peter Obi, its presidential candidate, won the contentious February 25 election. The protest has been raised in response to Soyinka’s statement made on Wednesday at an occasion called “The Lives of Wole Soyinka — A Dialogue,” which took place in Stellenbosch, South Africa. The eminent author had emphasized that despite Labour Party leadership’s...
Abuja, FCT – In the ongoing investigation of the alleged fraudulent actions that took place under Godwin Emefiele’s nine-year tenure as Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) under the administration of former President Muhammadu Buhari, new information has started to emerge. The former Chief Executive of the Financial Reporting Council of Nigeria (FRC) and forensic auditor Jim Obazee are in charge of the special investigations, according to a story by The Guardian. According...
Atoyebi Bamidele, commonly known as Bam-Bam, a Bureau De Change operator, was charged by the police on Tuesday before the Federal High Court in Lagos for allegedly defrauding traders in Alaba Market of N157 million. Bamidele, who conducts business as Prosocial International Limited, is accused by the police of three charges each of conspiracy, acquiring, and stealing. The Force Criminal Investigation Department in Alagbon-Ikoyi, Lagos, brought the accusation against him before the court. Following a...
The police in Ekiti State on Tuesday arraigned a 22-year-old man, Joshua Edet, before an Ekiti State Chief Magistrate’s Court for suspected fund conversion. Inspector Olubu Apata, the police prosecutor, told the court that the defendant committed the crime between July 12 and September 7 at LAZORA Bar, opposite Fayose Market in Ado-Ekiti. According to the prosecutor, “the defendant, a sales boy, fraudulently converted the sum of N250,400 belonging to his boss, one Babafemi Damola,...
The forthcoming Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) in Ivory Coast in 2024 would not use Nigerian referees. There were no Nigerian referees on the list of 32 center referees, 33 assistant referees, and 2 VAR officials provided by the Confederation of African Football (CAF) for the competition. No Nigerian referee has been chosen for an AFCON competition for the past 13 years.
The Lagos State Police Command announced that it has detained one Nwagu Emmanuel for allegedly posing as a police commissioner to enable the release of a suspect from the state’s force headquarters. This information was revealed on Monday during the parading of Emmanuel and other suspects at the Police Headquarters in Ikeja, Lagos, by the state’s commissioner of police, Idowu Owohunwa, through the command’s public relations officer, Benjamin Hundeyin. In order to enable the release...
