Following its inability to pay back N333 million loan borrowed in 2008, a Federal High Court in Abuja has made an interim order, freezing all bank accounts of Benue State Government.
Justice Inyang Ekwo, who gave the order following an...
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has raised the alarm over the activities of fraudsters following the launch of the digital currency, eNaira.
The apex bank, in a statement issued on Wednesday by Osita Nwanisobi, Director of Corporate Communications, stated...
The Federal Executive Council (FEC) has given the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) the approval to deploy some of its tax liabilities to Lagos-Badagry Expressway and 20 other road projects across the six-geo-political zones.
Babatunde Fashola, Minister of Works and...
Managing Director, Petroleum Products Marketing Company (PPMC), Mr. Isiyaku Abdullahi, has said that the full deregulation of the petroleum downstream sector will save Nigeria N12 trillion in four years.
Abdullahi stated that with the price of crude oil at $80,...
Dr. Abba Sayyadi Ruma, a former Minister of Agriculture and Water Resources during the administration of late President Umaru Musa Yar’adua, is dead.
Ruma, according to Daily Trust, died in a London hospital.
Confirming the demise of Ruma, his uncle and...
Southern Vietnam’s Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) on Wednesday started vaccinating children against COVID-19.
According to a local media outlet, VnExpress, the city became the first locality in the country to do so.
The inoculation campaign began in Cu Chi district,...
A hotelier, Mr. Babatunde Emmanuel on Wednesday before an Ikeja Special Offences Court, alleged that Access Bank Plc., relied on forged documents to authorise illegal debit and credit transactions on his account amounting to N42.5 million.
Emmanuel, the owner of...
World Bank has granted Kenya 16.7 billion shillings (about $150 million) to support the country’s climate action plan, the National Treasury said Wednesday.
The Treasury said the money would be used to strengthen local resilience to the impact of climate...
Former Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Senator Anyim Pius Anyim, has explained why he was detained for two days by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).
Anyim was released on Tuesday after he was kept in...
Bayern Munich’s HernandezLucas Hernandez, Bayern Munich and France defender, will not have to go to prison in Spain this week after judges instead imposed a suspended sentence.
The regional court in Madrid announced the decision on Wednesday.
A six-month prison term...
