A Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP), Nwawe Cordelia, and other officers serving at the Force Criminal Investigations Department (FCID), Alagbon, Lagos are in trouble over extortion of N20 million worth of Bitcoin from some citizens in Lagos State.
The officers...
Apex northern socio-cultural group, the Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF), has expressed its frustration and anger on the spate of killings in the North.
The ACF also called on President Muhammadu Buhari to show more empathy to the bereaved by visiting...
Moderna Inc (MRNA.O) on Monday said the booster dose of its Coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccine appeared to be protective against the fast-spreading Omicron variant in laboratory testing.
It added that the current version of the vaccine would continue to be Moderna’s...
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has returned to work after finishing a week of self-isolation due to testing positive for the Coronavirus (COVID-19), his office said on Monday.
Ramaphosa, who was given Johnson & Johnson’s vaccine in February, tested positive...
Members of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) can access a maximum of N2 million loan at an interest rate of 9.5 per cent per annum.
But the NBA’s newly-introduced Stabilisation Fund is only for members who have duly paid their...
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has set the new International Termination Rate (ITR) for voice services paid by overseas telecom carriers for terminating international calls on local networks in Nigeria at $0.045.
The new rate is contained in the ‘Determination...
A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Monday, nullified the participation of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and its candidate, Andy Uba, in the November 6 Anambra governorship election.
Justice Inyang Ekwo, in a judgement, held that the June 26 primaries...
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has accused the Federal Government of blackmailing lecturers by reducing their demands to payment of Earned Academic Allowances (EAA).
The union, after its National Executive Council (NEC) meeting in Abuja at the weekend,...
By DAKUKU PETERSIDE
Globally, citizens of countries with democratic profiles are beginning to question the efficacy of democracy – especially democracy's capacity to deliver the development agenda. A survey conducted by Pew Research shows that across 34 countries, a median...
TUNDE ODESOLA
Only three reasons could make me follow Nigeria’s President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) and his former victim, Chief Adebisi Abdulkareem Akande, into the jungle; not the President’s false claims on security, not the news that 3,125 persons...
