Tuesday, June 17, 2025
The Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Ola Olukoyede, said on Tuesday, that whenever he checks case files and sees the amount stolen, he wonders how the country still exists. In a statement by EFCC Head of Media and Publicity, Dele Oyewale, the chairman stated this while receiving […]
The Senate, on Tuesday, passed for first reading bills seeking to create two additional South-East states to increase states in the region to seven. This was as a bill seeking the creation of Etiti State in the South-East geo-political zone was read for the first time on the floor of the House […]
Nyesom Wike, the minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), said that Ireti Kingibe, the senator representing the nation’s capital, will not be reelected in 2027. Wike made this statement on Monday in Abuja during the flag-off ceremony for the construction of the Mabushi bus terminal. “If we have done […]
A former Chairman of the Special Investigation Panel for the Recovery of Public Property, Okoi Obono-Obla, has alleged that the loot recovered by his panel under former President Muhammadu Buhari were returned to the looters. He added that the Buhari administration failed to fight corruption, supposedly the bedrock of people’s trust in […]
A US-based Nigerian entrepreneur and Chief Executive Officer of Asper Online Auction, Otunba Saheed Ashogbon, has announced plans to invest $100 million in an online auto auction platform in Nigeria. Unveiling his plans to the media in Lagos, Ashogbon, who has lived in the US for over 30 years, explained […]
The State House, under the dispensation of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has spent over N3.7 billion on the purchase and supply of vehicles and tyres, findings by Daily Trust on Saturday have revealed. Investigation and data gathered from govspend, a portal documenting government expenditures, showed that the Presidential Villa made […]
Flutterwave has laid off 24 staff members (3 percent of its workforce) in a team reorganisation move. This is as the payment company announced that it is doubling down on its core business, enterprise payments and remittance segment, Send App. “As a result, we have rebuilt the teams to more […]
In two months, Nigerians will begin utilising the services of the proposed three-in-one identity card, the National Identity Management Commission has confirmed. It said the single multipurpose card combining multiple functions of identity, financial and social services will be made available to citizens across the country by August this year. A […]
The Federal High Court in Lagos has ordered the permanent forfeiture of properties worth over N11.14 billion and N1.04 billion belonging to the former Central Bank of Nigeria Governor, Godwin Emefiele to the Federal Government. Justice Chukwujekwu Aneke issued the final forfeiture order after considering a motion filed by the […]
Awards N30 Million Against Firm The National Industrial Court has held that Employee Compensation Act 2010, the current law dealing with compensation for work-related injury claims, does not exclude the right of action in negligence for industrial injury claims. The decision was handed down by the Presiding Judge of […]