The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, on Wednesday, arraigned the immediate-past Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele, for alleged unlawful redesign and printing of the new naira notes. Emefiele was arraigned before Justice Maryanne Anenih of the Federal Capital Territory High Court. In the charge marked CR/264/2024, the EFCC alleged that Emefiele…
The 2023 presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, has said the move by the Federal Government to deploy N20tn pension fund for infrastructure development could lead to disastrous consequences for Nigerians. This was as he called for an immediate halt to what he termed another attempt to perpetrate illegality by…
The threat of legal action against the Speaker of the Niger State House of Assembly, Abdulmalik Sarkindaji, by the Minister of Women Affairs, Uju Kennedy Ohanenye, over his plans to sponsor the marriage of over 100 girls in his constituency in Mariga Local Government Area has continued to generate brouhaha across. Various Islamic…
The executive chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ola Olukoyede, has advised civil society organisations, CSOs, across the country not to allow themselves to be used as tools to engender corruption by dubious politicians. A statement by EFCC spokesperson, Dele Oyewale on Wednesday, said Olukoyede gave the advice when he received…
Opposition lawmakers in the House of Representatives on Wednesday said President Bola Tinubu can use commercial flight if the presidential planes are not available. The lawmakers made the assertion during a debate on the recent breakdown of presidential flights. The Minority Leader, Kingsley Chinda and Minority Whip, Ali Isa, during a debate on a…
Organised Labour on Wednesday pulled out of the ongoing minimum wage negotiations with the Federal Government. The development came after the FG and the Organized Private Sector, OPS, made an offer of N48,000 and N54,000 wage respectively. The organized labour described the offer as “ridiculous”. Giotv gathered that while the FG did not provide any…
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has released an additional 36,540 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) results which were earlier withheld for further investigation. Disclosing this in a statement on Tuesday, JAMB’s spokesman, Fabian Benjamin, said the latest release was in addition to the 531 results released the previous week, bringing the…
President Bola Tinubu has ordered the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, to suspend the implementation of the 0.5 per cent cybersecurity levy. This was revealed on Tuesday by the Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris. Idris disclosed this while speaking to State House correspondents. According to him, President Tinubu ordered the suspension following…
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has threatened to strike nationwide over the non-constitution of governing councils for universities months after they were dissolved. In June, the National Universities Commission (NUC) dissolved the governing councils of all federal universities after a directive from President Bola Tinubu. But months after the move, ASUU insists…
A teenage student, Benjamin Basil, who was apprehended by security operatives at a bank in Jos, the Plateau State capital, with devices suspected to be bomb explosives while trying to rob them of N100m on Tuesday narrated how kidnappers forced him into the act. Speaking with newsmen on Tuesday at the Police Command headquarters in…