Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC have smashed a syndicate of alleged fraudsters who specializes in credit card fraud. The arrested suspects, Daniel C. Stephen, Nestor Ezeani, Sonny Okwaraji, Sylvester E Otuwa and Jeff Ogbonaya, allegedly masterminded the theft of $257,822.16 American Dollars from a new generation bank. The alleged fraudulent transaction…
Lateef Jakande, the first civilian Governor of Lagos State is dead. He died on Thursday morning in Lagos at the age of 91. The news of the former Governor’s death was confirmed by Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu on his twitter handle this afternoon. Sanwo-Olu wrote, “With gratitude to God for a worthy life well spent in…
The Lagos Police Command has assured citizens that normalcy has returned in the Obalende area of Lagos following a clash between rival groups of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW). Pandemonium broke out in the early hours of Thursday, at Obalende area of Lagos Island when sounds of gunshots were heard, thereby raising…
A Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Femi Falana, has said that the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) misled the court into freezing the accounts of some individuals of the ENDSARs protesters by making the court believe that some grave offenses had been committed and would require time to run an investigation. The human rights lawyer,…
The Ibadan zonal office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Tuesday, February 9, 2021, arrested 39 internet fraud suspects, also known as ‘Yahoo-Yahoo Boys’. Ten of them were arrested at Ilesha, Osun State, while Twenty-nine others were arrested in different locations at Ago-Iwoye, Ogun State. Those arrested at Ilesha are: Oyesoji Tosin,…
Rinu Oduala, one of the front liners in the ENDSARs protest that really shook the Nigerian Government last year is set to sue the Central Bank of Nigeria over an unlawful freezing of her accounts. She decided to take legal action against the Apex bank after a Federal High Court in Abuja on Wednesday set…
The Lagos State Government has announced the closure of the Yaba Overpass temporarily for three weeks from Tuesday 9th to Tuesday, 23rd February, 2021. The government explained that the closure is in continuation of the Multimodal Master Plan in the transportation sector, According to a statement signed by the Honourable Commissioner for Transportation, Dr. Frederic…
The Lagos State Ministry of Justice, in collaboration with the State Task Force on Environmental and Special Offences Unit, on Monday, supervised the public auction of 83 forfeited vehicles on the orders of the Lagos State Special Offences Mobile Court for the violation of the Lagos State Transport Sector Reform Law 2018. Speaking to journalists…
The private sector-led Coalition Against COVID-19 (CACOVID) has clarified that only the Federal Government, through the National Primary Healthcare Development Agency (NPHCDA) can obtain any COVID-19 vaccine for Nigeria in the ongoing fight against the coronavirus pandemic. The coalition also explained that the process of buying the vaccines through the Federal Government has commenced and…
The pension industry in Nigeria has evolved over the years and introduction of the Transfer Window, which allows pension contributors to switch from one pension fund administrator (PFA) to another has been the talk of the town since November 2020 when it was officially declared open by the National Pension Commission (PenCom). Recently, Stanbic IBTC…