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Ibrahim Magu, the suspended acting chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has been asked to account for interest accruing from N550 billion looted funds, which were recovered by the commission, the News Agency of Nigeria has reported.   NAN’s story was based on “The Final Report of the Presidential Investigation Committee on the […]

The Nigerian government on Friday prevented 58 medical doctors from travelling out of the country to the United Kingdom. They were stopped at the Murtala Mohammed International Air Port, Lagos, by the Nigeria Immigration Service.   Muhammad Babandede, the Comptroller-General of NIS, said that  56 of the 58 doctors billed to travel to the UK […]

…MDAs to receive 15% of Capital votes July Ending   President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday signed into law Nigeria’s revised budget of 10.8 trillion naira for the year.   At the event, Buhari promised that ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs) of government would receive 15 percent of their capital votes by the end of July. […]

President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the immediate suspension of Ibrahim Magu as Ag. Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in order to allow for an unhindered inquiry by the Presidential Investigation Panel under the Tribunals of Inquiry Act and other relevant laws.   This was contained in a statement issued by Dr. […]

Nigeria cannot guarantee a low price for petrol because of the impact of market forces and the need to end subsidy for the local consumption of the product, the government said Thursday.   Timipre Sylva, the country’s junior minister for petroleum resources, said this in a statement published on the Instagram page of the ministry. […]

A consortium of American Ivy League universities led by Harvard and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), both in Cambridge, Massachusetts, have sued the Trump administration, seeking to block a directive that would strip foreign college students of their visas if the courses they are taking this Fall semester are entirely online. According to the new […]

The Edo State Chapter of the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) has commended the giant strides of the Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, in the education sector, reaffirming the union’s support for the reelection bid of Governor Obaseki and his deputy, Rt. Hon. Comrade Philip Shaibu.   In a statement by the Union’s chairman, […]

  For those who say Nigeria is a country where wonders shall never end, they had vindication yesterday when former Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Andrew Yakubu, told the Federal High Court in Abuja that the $9.7million and £74,000 seized from his house in 2017 by the Economic and Financial […]

Despite the massive mobilization of resources by the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) to ensure victory for their candidates in the forthcoming gubernatorial elections in Edo and Ondo states, there are emerging indications that APC candidates – Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu and his Ondo counterpart will be disqualified if the courts ruled that the caretaker committee […]

  Nigeria’s COVID-19 cases jumped to 30,249 as it recorded 460 cases on Wednesday, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) announced on its official twitter handle. The NCDC said as at July 8, the number of new confirmed cases was 460 with 15 deaths recorded, while no new state had reported a case in […]

The Nigerian government on Wednesday cancelled its plan to reopen schools to enable students sit for the senior secondary certificate examinations and junior secondary certificate examinations. The  Minister of State for Education, Mr Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba, had said on Monday, July 6, that schools would reopen for graduating students on August 4.  This changed on Wednesday […]

Prof Yemi Osinbajo, Nigeria’s Vice President, did not collect N4billion from former Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, as was reported in some online publications, his Senior Special Assistant on Media has said.   Laolu Akande, in a  statement issued on Wednesday, said he had been “inundated by wide the circulation of […]