Category: News
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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arraigned former Governor of Anambra State, Willie Obiano, on nine counts of alleged N4bn fraud during his time as governor of the South-East state from March 2014 to March 2022. The 68-year-old was arraigned today (Wednesday) before Justice Inyang Ekwo of the Federal High Court Abuja. Obiano…
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STATE HOUSE PRESS RELEASE PRESIDENT TINUBU TRAVELS TO FRANCE President Bola Tinubu departs Abuja for Paris, France, on Wednesday, January 24, 2024, for a private visit. He will return to the country in the first week of February, 2024. Chief Ajuri Ngelale Special Adviser to the President (Media & Publicity) January 24, 2024
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“We have a head. We have some limbs,” Kenny told reporters Tuesday. “As of right now it seems like we have the whole body.” A woman who was inside the apartment at the time was taken into custody because she had several open petit larceny warrants, sources said. Investigators would like to speak with her,…
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The Central Bank of Nigeria’s governor expects headline inflation to fall to 21.4 per cent in 2024. The apex bank’s governor disclosed this during his keynote speech at the launching of the Nigerian Economic Summit Group macroeconomic outlook report for 2024. He said, “Inflationary pressures are expected to decline in 2024 due to the CBN’s…
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Some yet-to-be-identified gunmen have killed two persons suspected to be husband and wife and dumped their corpses in a car boot of their vehicle, a Toyota Camry with the registration number: EE-621-EU. The two fresh blood-dripping corpses were seen by passers-by at a lonely place along the Tempo Junction, Umunya axis of the Enugu-Onitsha Expressway…
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President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has granted an emergency approval for procurement of digital tracking devices to aid the fight against kidnapping and other violent crimes in the Federal Capital Territory, FCT. FCT Minister, Barrister Ezenwo Nyesom Wike, made this disclosure in Abuja on Monday, January 22, 2024 during his first monthly media chat for the…
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The market capitalisation of Dangote Cement hit N10tn on Monday, emerging as the first company to achieve that milestone on the Nigerian Exchange. This is as billionaire businessman, Femi Otedola, who called the founder of the Dangote Group, Aliko Dangote, his “bestie”, had made a significant acquisition of Dangote Cement shares. The firm closed trading…
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President Bola Tinubu has urged Nigerians to join hands to fix the country and have a change of mindset towards money. Tinubu spoke on Monday when he received a delegation of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) led by its president Archbishop Daniel Okoh at the State House in Abuja, asking the body to help…
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Detectives in Kenya have arrested two Nigerians, William Opia and Johnbull Asbor, for allegedly murdering and dismembering Rita Waeni, a 20-year-old student at Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology in an apartment. According to Kenya’s The Nation Media Group on its website on Monday, the discovery of Waeni’s head, covered in a sack and…
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The Rivers State Police Command has said three of its officers who abducted and extorted the sum of $3,000 from two travellers will face an orderly room trial and query respectively. The spokesperson for the command, Grace Iringe-Koko, who disclosed this while parading the suspects before newsmen in Port Harcourt on Monday, said the action…