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A Former Head of Interim National Government, Chief Ernest Adegunle Shonekan, has finally laid to rest. Top personalities across the federation including Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo; former President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan; former Military Head of state, Yakubu Gowon, his wife, Victoria; Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu gathered around 11am of yesterday – Friday, February 4, 2022, at the Cathedral Church of ...

Information reaching us has it, that President Muhammadu Buhari, has written to the Senate to seek confirmation for the appointment of four commissioners for Nigeria Electricity Regulatory Commission.   ,,,,Aside from the NERC commissioners, the president also sought confirmation for the appointment of Executive Directors of the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority and the Nigerian Deposit Insurance Corporation. ...

Nigeria’s foremost financial institution, Heritage Bank have received the Online Reporters Association of Nigeria, ORAN Award of the most innovative bank of the year 2021 for her Excellence and innovative performance in championing the cause of Agricultural development, and unblemished track record in investment strategies. The award was presented to the bank recently at the Heritage Bank’s Corporate Headquarters in ...

The United Kingdom (UK) has announced the resumption of work and study visa applications processing in Nigeria. The British High Commission had on December 6, 2021, suspended visa applications from red list countries, including Nigeria. But a post by UKinNigeria on its social media handles on Wednesday, urged Nigerians to proceed to the UK visa application centres for the Priority ...

The federal government has disclosed that the subsidy of fuel will last for another 18months, pending when an amendment in the Petroleum Industry Act will be forwarded to the National Assembly.   Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Timipre Sylva gave this indication on Tuesday while briefing State House Correspondents in Abuja.   According to Sylva, President Muhammadu Buhari being ...

By JUMOKE SANNI The Lagos Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Friday, January 21, 2022, arraigned one Funmi Adenmosun before Justice Daniel Osiagor of the Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos on a 10-count charge bordering on  conspiracy and money laundering to the tune of N26, 600, 000,000( Twenty-six Billion Six Hundred Million Naira). ...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Wednesday grilled the managing director of Assets Management Company of Nigeria, (AMCON), Mr. Ahmed Kuru. Kuru was quizzed in connection to alleged diversion of assets. A top official at the anti-graft agency confirmed the development on Wednesday. Kuru has been accused of asset diversion and selling of seized assets to cronies at below ...

Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, (IPOB), has pleaded not guilty to the 15 charges brought against him by the Federal Government in the case of alleged treasonable felony. He pleaded not guilty before Justice Binta Nyako when the case resumed at the Federal High Court in Abuja on Wednesday. The Federal Government had filed fresh terrorism charges ...

1,183 of 7,799 students will graduate in the Third-class division from the University of Lagos (UNILAG), Akoka. Vice-Chancellor of UNILAG, Prof. Oluwatoyin Ogundipe, disclosed this at the 52nd pre-convocation briefing on January 12, 2021. ’A total of 12,217 graduating students will receive their degrees, diplomas, and certificates; out of this number, 7,799 will receive first degrees or diplomas while 4,418 ...

Otunba Christopher Alao-Akala, a former governor of Oyo State, is dead. He was aged 71. Details of his death are sketchy as at press time. Born on June 3, 1950, at Ogbomoso in the Ogbomoso North Local Government Area of Oyo State, Alao-Akala had his elementary school at Osupa Baptist Day School, Ogbomoso before proceeding to Kamina Barracks Middle School, ...