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  A former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Dr. Obadiah Mailafia, says repentant terrorists revealed that a serving northern governor is a Boko Haram leader.   Mailafia said this on the ‘Morning Crossfire’ program on Nigeria Info Abuja 95.1FM on Monday, the Punch reported Tuesday.   The former CBN deputy governor said […]

Nova Merchant Bank, a three-year-old Nigerian lender, said it has raised long-term funds to finance projects in Agriculture, Fintech, healthcare, and telecoms, among others.   Nova is focusing on these sectors for financing projects because they are the areas where the bank currently sees opportunities, managing director Anya Duroha said.   Nova set to raise […]

  A Shari’a court in northern Nigeria town of Kano on Monday sentenced 22-year-old singer to death by hanging for allegedly blaspheming Prophet Muhammad.   The Presiding Judge of the Upper Shari’a Court, Khadi Aliyu Muhammad Kani, gave the judgement after he found the accused, Yahaya Sharif-Aminu,  guilty of the offence.   Sharif-Aminu was accused […]

  It took the management of First City Monument Bank four years to admit that it erroneously posted the sum of 573 million naira into the account of Prophet Emmanuel Omale, the founder of Divine Hand of God Prophetic Ministries, Abuja.   The Chief Executive Officer of Adam Nuru admitted the error while testifying before […]

Top stories . Twitter ‘looking’ at a possible TikTok tie-up . 13 hours ago . Twitter, TikTok Have Held Preliminary Talks About Possible Combination . 1 day ago . Twitter jumps into the fray for TikTok Twitter has approached TikTok’s Chinese owner ByteDance to express an interest in buying its US operations, according to reports. […]

Agboola Ajayi, the Ondo State deputy governor whose exit from the ruling All Progressives Congress caused quite a loud stir, has decamped from the People’s Democratic Party, which he joined in June.   Ajayi sent the letter of resignation from the party on Monday to the PDP secretariat at Apoi Ward 2 in Kiribo town, […]

 …Gives commission 45 days to submit report   President Muhammadu Buhari has authorized a Judicial Commission of inquiry to undertake a complete probe into the allegations levelled suspended Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Ibrahim Magu, and the commission.   The probe is to cover the period 2015 to 2020, looking into […]

  Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, (SERAP) has sent an open letter to the World Bank President Mr David Malpass, urging him to use his “good offices to encourage the Federal Government and 36 state governments to publicly commit to transparency and accountability in the spending of the $114.28m credit and grant for COVID-19, which […]