Fraud: World Bank blacklists Nigerian companies, individuals

The World Bank Group has debarred 18 Nigerian companies and individuals for engaging in corrupt and collusive practices in its 2021 fiscal year. In a new annual report titled ‘World Bank Group Sanctions System FY21’, the bank said the individuals and companies were sanctioned different sentences according to their offences. According to the world lender, the companies and individuals were …

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#EndSars Anniversary: No Street Protests In Lagos — Odumosu

Lagos State Police Command  has said that  a post being circulated on the social media insinuating that the police in Lagos have agreed to allow street protests in commemoration of the one year EndSARS anniversary on 20th October, 2021 is not true. On the contrary, the police will only allow an indoor and virtual event in commemoration of the EndSARS anniversary and …

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How FirstBank Employees are Making a Difference in their Immediate Environments Through the SPARK Initiative

Every other day, social media brings us a picture or video of a dilapidated school somewhere in Nigeria or shares images of a distraught widow, a struggling roadside trader or street hawker, or some other hapless victims of the extremely harsh realities of living in Nigeria. Immediately, as if on cue or automated, viewers launch into stinging attacks of government, …

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‘Sunday Igboho has been Poisoned in Benin Republic’

Self-proclaimed investigative journalist, Kemi Olunloyo has stated that Yoruba pro-secessionist, Sunday Adeyemo alias Sunday Igboho has been poisoned. Olunloyo took to Twitter on Monday to claim that the activist was ‘poisoned’. “#BREAKING Sunday lgboho has been poisoned in a Cotonou prison. His kidney function is deteriorating and Yoruba Nation is silent. Where is the cash donated for him? Cotonou authorities …

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Read FG’s New Charges Against Nnamdi Kanu

The Federal Government has filed an amended seven-count charge against the detained leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu. The amended charge, which was filed by the office of the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, borders on treasonable felony and Kanu’s alleged involvement in acts of terrorism. This came at a time, the …

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FG amend charges against Nnamdi Kanu ahead of Thursday trial

The President Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal Government has amended the charges against pro-Biafra agitator, Nnamdi Kanu. The amended charges were served to Kanu’s lawyers ahead of Thursday. Lead counsel to Kanu, Ifeanyi Ejiofor disclosed this in a statement he signed and issued last night, after routine visit to Kanu. The statement reads partly: “Today, I and my colleague, Bar. Alloy Ejimakor, …

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2023: Raymond Dokpesi Reveals Why Igbo President Can’t Emerge

Raymond Dokpesi, the founder of DAAR Communications, has disclosed how the agitation for Biafra by Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has affected the chances of the southeast producing a Nigerian president. Dokpesi disclosed that some Nigerians believe that Kanu would force a Nigerian president of Igbo extraction to declare Biafra. He said the IPOB leader …

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Nigerians can use eNaira without Internet, says CBN

The Central Bank of Nigeria has said the eNaira will be available to Nigerians without Internet-enabled phones. The CBN disclosed this in a document obtained by our correspondent, with the title ‘Design paper for the eNaira’. It said maximising the value and use cases of the eNaira would depend largely on devices with Internet capabilities. “The eNaira thus risks further …

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2023: APC ready to make Tinubu presidential candidate —Lawmaker

A member of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Hon Gbolahan Yishawu has said the State chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, is prepared to make the party’s National Leader, Bola Tinubu its presidential candidate in 2023. Yishawu said the success of Saturday’s State congress showed that they were ready to make Tinubu APC flag bearer. The lawmaker, who …

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El-Zakzaky sues AGF, DSS for N2bn over detention, passport’s seizure

The leader of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria, Sheikh Ibraheem El-Zakzaky, has sued the Department of State Services and the Attorney-General of the Federation to court over his prolonged detention and the refusal of the government to release his passport. In the fundamental human rights suit instituted at the Federal High Court, Abuja, by his lawyer, Mr Femi Falana (SAN), …

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