The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has detained the Director General of Voice of Nigeria (VON), Osita Okechukwu, over N1.3 billion contract fraud.
As at 10:30p.m. on Saturday when The Star spoke with sources at the anti-graft agency, the...
The electricity firms – Eko Electricity Distribution Company (EKEDC) and Ikeja Electric (IE) Plc – servicing Lagos consumers have attributed the outage currently being experienced in the state to a drop in power generation.
The DisCos made this known in...
The Anambra State Governor-Elect, Prof. Chukwuma Soludo, has lamented the state of Nigeria’s politics, declaring that it has become big business for some criminal elements.
Soludo, who won the November 6, 2021 governorship election in Anambra State, said many barons...
The Kibaku (Chibok) Area Development Association (KADA) on Saturday in Abuja indicated that 110 of the 276 girls abducted in April 2014, are still unaccounted for.
President of KADA, Dauda lliya, at a press conference, said of the 276 girls...
Three teenage boys have been arrested in Oke Aregba area of Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, after they were caught burning the head of a girl, said to be in a relationship with one of them, for money ritual.
It...
The Police Service Commission (PSC) has said that the recruitment of police officers remains the constitutional responsibility of the Commission, saying the right was affirmed by a judgement of the Federal Court of Appeal.
The Commission made this known in...
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has called the attention of Nigerians to a Short Messaging Service (SMS) Android malware, TangleBot, which is installed on phones by internet fraudsters to defraud unsuspecting internet users.
According to NCC, the malware takes complete...
Prof. Ignatius Uduk of the University of Uyo (UNIUYO) is set to plead a no-case submission as the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), on Friday, concluded its prosecution at the Akwa Ibom State High Court sitting in Uyo, in...
The founder of Salvation Ministry, Pastor David Ibiyeomie, has rained curses on internet fraudsters, popularly called ‘Yahoo boys’, and culpable policemen allegedly taking “bribe” to stop their arrest.
Pastor Ibiyeomie, in a viral video watched by The Star, said the...
Minister of Works and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, has denied saying that Nigeria's achievements in infrastructure have surpassed that of the United States.
The minister said America is a much richer nation and their infrastructure is well ahead of Nigeria.
Fashola,...
