The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC has arrested one Mohammed Umar, a Bida, Niger State based politician and businessman, for alleged employment scam. A statement by the commission’s spokesperson, Wilson Uwujaren, said operatives from the Cybercrime section at the EFCC headquarters, Abuja arrested Umar on May 18, 2021 following a petition from a victim…
Hoodlums again launched a series of coordinated attacks on the Independent National Electoral Commission’s (INEC) facilities in Anambra, Enugu and Imo States on Sunday, prompting the Commission to declare the recurrent invasions as a national emergency. All three incidents have been reported to the Police for investigation. Although no lives were lost, the Commission said…
President of Dangote group, Aliko Dangote on Monday assured the new President of Tanzania, Samia Suhulu that Dangote group will increase its investment in the country and inform investors all over the world, that Tanzania is now a place to invest. Dangote currently has invested about $770million in Tanzania. He lauded the new President investors’…
The Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Abdulrasheed Bawa, has described as alarming the rate of procurement frauds in public service in Nigeria. He stated this in his goodwill message at the opening ceremony of the Year 2021 First Batch Conversion Training Programme to Procurement Cadre for Federal Parastatals and Agencies organized…
The Governor of Lagos State and the Visitor to the Lagos State University (LASU), Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu has ordered the immediate dissolution of the Lagos State University Governing Council and a fresh process for the selection of the ninth substantive Vice-Chancellor of the University. The Lagos State Commissioner of Information, Gbenga Omotoso, made this known…
The House of Representatives has urged the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) to suspend a fresh increase in electricity tariff proposed to take off next month. It said the majority of Nigerians could not afford the additional burden of a fresh tariff hike amid the hardship they already faced. In a resolution passed in plenary…
The Federal Government has set up a committee to come up with a work plan on how to resolve the dispute between the Kaduna State Government and the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC). Minister for Labour and Employment, Dr Chris Ngige, stated that this is part of the Memorandum of Understanding reached at the end of…
The Lagos state government has revealed that property at Osborne Foreshore Estate, Ikoyi, Lagos, for the relocation of Igbosere High Court, will be ready by end of May 2021. This was disclosed by the state’s Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice Moyosore Onigbanjo, SAN at the Ministry’s Ministerial Press Briefing tagged ‘Our journey between April 2020…
Lagos State Government, through the Ministry of Health and in partnership with a non-governmental Organisation, Evidence Action, on Tuesday, commenced mass deworming for the treatment and prevention of Soil-Transmitted Helminths (STH) in 10 Local Government Areas of the State. Speaking during the official flag-off of the exercise held at St. Peters Anglican Primary School, Alausa,…
Premier Agribusiness Academy (PAA), Nigeria’s leading centre for learning and transferring innovative competencies required for sustainable investment in all allied industries of the agri-sector has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Africa’s leading agricultural research institute, The International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) for the purpose of private sector and farmer capacity building. Mr.…