From January to November 2022, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) obtained 3,440 convictions for financial and cybercrimes around the nation. EFCC Chairman Abdulrasheed Bawa gave a message of goodwill at the beginning of a workshop on reporting financial crimes that the agency had organised. As the general elections in 2023 draw near, Bawa, Read More…
The Nigeria Police Force has denied that the current administration of the Inspector-General of Police (I-G) violated a court order. The denial was contained in a statement released on Tuesday in Abuja by CSP Olumuyiwa Adejobi, the Force Public Relations Officer. Adejobi claimed that, with regard to a story making the rounds in the media, Read More…
According to Dr. Faisal Shuaib, the Executive Secretary of the National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA), Nigeria has not yet achieved the year-end worldwide vaccination target of 70% target coverage with the COVID-19 vaccinations. Shuaib disclosed this in an interview with journalists on Tuesday in Abuja. “We are 21.6 million eligible persons away from Read More…
A 17-year-old Oyo State girl who was detained in Kebbi while reportedly travelling to Libya has been turned over to NAPTIP by the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS). When immigration officers detained the girl in Kebbi’s Yauri Local Government Area, she was travelling alone. This information was provided to newsmen in Birnin Kebbi on Tuesday during Read More…
Away from the grandiose promises of politicians in these testy times of electoral campaigns in the midst of insecurity, let’s just pause for a moment and consider how parts of our country came to look like Libya where warlords determine life expectancy. I am not aware that any of the leading presidential candidates has shown Read More…
The conviction of Faisal for conspiracy and money laundering by the Court of Appeal on Thursday was affirmed. Faisal is the son of the imprisoned former Chairman of the disbanded Pension Reform Taskforce Team (PRTT), Abdulrasheed Maina. A three-member panel of the appellate court also lowered his sentence from 14 to seven years in prison Read More…
To improve professionalism and accountability in police operations, the Rule of Law and Accountability Advocacy Center (RULAAC) has urged for strict adherence to the Police Act. The request was made on Thursday in Abuja at the National Assessment Performance Meeting of the Nigeria Police Trust Fund by Mr. Okechukwu Nwanguma, Executive Director of RULAAC, a Read More…
Ahead of the general elections in 2023, the United States Consulate in Nigeria has trained 150 journalists on election reporting. The two-day meeting for the South-South geopolitical zone in Port Harcourt came to an end on Wednesday. Speaking at the occasion via video conference, Mr. Will Stevens, the general consul of the United States, pledged Read More…
According to a Senate report released on Tuesday, Nigeria lost more than $2 billion to oil theft in the first eight months of this year. Large-scale theft from Nigeria’s pipelines has slowed exports, forced some businesses to halt production, destroyed the nation’s finances, and forced Nigeria to relinquish its position as Africa’s top oil producer. Read More…
INTRIGUING. I mean the topic that leaders of the Food, Beverage, and Tobacco Senior Staff Association, FOBTOB asked me to speak on. ‘Trade Union Leadership: Lessons to be learnt from or Taught to the Political Class.’ I know a lot of lessons politicians can teach labour leaders, but scratch my head what the latter can Read More…
