EFCC Arrests Suspected Fraudster Buying Bank Accounts Details for Fraud

Operatives of the Benin Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, have arrested one Olawole Sunday, a suspected fraudster who specialised in buying bank accounts’ details from individuals with which he defrauds unsuspecting members of the public. Sunday’s modus operandi involved encouraging young people to open multiple bank accounts, pay them either N25,000 or N50,000 for each …

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Fidelity Bank Distributes Food Packs to FCT Communities

As part of its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiatives, leading financial institution, Fidelity Bank Plc, recently donated food packs to Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Abuja residents. Themed, the Fidelity Food Bank initiative, the outreach saw the bank’s officials distribute the food items to seven communities in the Mabushi district of the FCT. Speaking at the distribution event, the Executive Director, …

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Laffmattazz: Omobaba, Dr Smile, Baba Alariya, Mr P, Terry Akpala, others billed for Easter Sunday show

This year’s Laffmattazz tour with Gbenga Adeyinka D1st and Friends themed ‘About Time Tour’ is set to takeoff at the Jogor Centre, Ibadan on Easter Sunday, 20 April, 2025 with an array of A-list entertainers on the bill. Peter ‘Mr P’ Okoye, one half of the famous P-Square group is headlining the show alongside Terry Akpala, Babatunmise and Keanzo, while …

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Laffmattazz: Mr P, Terry Akpala, Kiekie, Mr Escom, Kamo State, others set to serenade Ibadan on Easter Sunday

This year’s Laffmattazz tour with Gbenga Adeyinka D1st and Friends themed ‘About Time Tour’ is set to takeoff at the Jogor Centre, Ibadan on Easter Sunday, 20 April, 2025 with an array of A-list entertainers on the bill. Peter ‘Mr P’ Okoye, one half of the famous P-Square group is headlining the show alongside Terry Akpala, Babatunmise and Keanzo, while …

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Civil Rights Group Urges Tinubu to Probe Defence Minister Over Alleged Abuse of Office

The Civil Rights and Anti-Corruption Network (CRACON) has called on President Bola Tinubu to set up a special investigative committee to probe Defence Minister Muhammed Abubakar Badaru over allegations of abuse of office and conflict of interest. In a statement on Wednesday by CRACON’s coordinator, Folashade Olumiya, the group urged the president to demonstrate consistency in his administration’s fight against …

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Pro-democracy group tells Tinubu to declare state of emergency in Zamfara over insecurity, political repression

The United Democratic Coalition (UDC) has called on President Bola Tinubu to immediately declare a state of emergency in Zamfara, citing worsening insecurity and a breakdown of democratic order in the state. The demand was contained in a statement on Friday signed by Abdulrahman Danladi, president of the coalition. Danladi described Zamfara as “a state under siege,” accusing the state …

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I Didn’t Collapse, Not Flown Overseas For Treatment – Wike

The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, has reacted to rumours making the rounds about his health, saying that there was never a time he collapsed or was flown overseas for treatment. Wike stated this during an inspection tour of some ongoing projects in the nation’s capital Abuja on Thursday. He claimed that the rumours emanated from mischief-makers …

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Natasha: Constituents laud INEC, vow to perfect recall petition

Some determined constituents of Kogi Central Senatorial District on Thursday expressed appreciation to the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, for validating 208,132 (43.86 per cent) signatures they submitted in the petition for recall of their Senator, Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan. The constituents said this in reaction to INEC’s declaration on Thursday that the petition they submitted for recall of Senator Natasha is …

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We were kept with hyenas, snakes – General Tsiga recounts kidnap ordeal

Former Director-General of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Brigadier General Maharazu Tsiga (rtd), who spent over two months in captivity, has recounted his harrowing experience in the hands of terrorists and kidnappers.   Tsiga revealed that he and other abductees were held in a dense forest surrounded by hills, teeming with dangerous animals. He described his survival as nothing …

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