The command’s spokesperson, CSP Femi Joseph, debunked the rumours while speaking with newsmen in Akure on Tuesday. News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) recalls that the incident happened on Feb. 6 and claimed four lives including two police officers. Meanwhile, there were rumours on the social media on Tuesday that one of the bank robbery suspects […]

With the world fast-evolving, and nations gradually becoming less oil dependent, experts have canvassed the importance of data mining for business and economic growth in Nigeria. Data mining is a process used to extract usable data from a larger set of any raw data for information sharing, among others. Speaking in Lagos, at a financial […]

Nigeria rakes in between N5 billion and N6 billion daily from imports since the closure of its land borders with neighbouring countries. Prior to the closure in August 2019, daily duty collections hovered between N4 billion and N5 billon, said the Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) in Lagos on Tuesday. The NCS Comptroller-General Col. Hammed Ali […]

The visa ban placed on Nigeria and other countries was a temporary measure, the United States (U.S.) said on Tuesday as the U.S. Ambassador to Nigeria, Mary Leonard, said the issue could be resolved if the conditions that necessitated the ban are met by the Federal Government. She listed information sharing goals as one of […]

Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike has criticised the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS) for stipulating Bank Verification Number (BVN) as a condition for obtaining the new e-passport. Wike, who spoke yesterday at the roll-out of the enhanced international e-passport in Port Harcourt, said providing BVN was not necessary as it would create problems for couples intending […]

Economic experts have agree with some of the observations by the International Monetary Fund (IMF), leading to its downgrade of earlier forecast of 2.5 percent gross domestic product (GDP) growth to 2.0 percent in 2020, while also faulting some prescriptions that tend to keep Nigeria under perpetual importation. They criticised that some of the prescriptions […]

The Bayelsa All Progressives Congress (APC) Youths Vanguard for Real Change has said the party leadership led by Adams Oshiomhole is to blame for foisting a candidate with forged credentials on the state chapter of the party. It also condemned the continued assault by thugs on the justices of the Supreme Court over the February […]

On Friday, 14 February 2020, history was made in the oil-rich Bayelsa State, when Senator Douye Diri was sworn in as the fifth democratically elected governor of the state. Historic also because it is the first time Kolokuma/Opokuma Local Government Area is producing a governor. It’s also the first time a democratically elected governor is […]

President of the Lagos Polo Club, Ayo Olashoju, who described the just-concluded GTB Lagos International Polo Tournament as one of the most successful in recent years, has promised more innovations to the competition, which draws participants from all over the world. Speaking at the end of the tournament on Sunday, Olashoju pointed out that the […]

• Corruption deadlier than Coronavirus, Ebola, says Magu President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday declared that very soon all government financial transactions would be done in the open on account of the reforms being pursued by his administration. Addressing the passing-out parade of the Detective Inspector Course 5 of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in […]

The Joint Revolutionary Council (JRC) has blamed rising oil theft and proliferation of illegal refineries in the Niger Delta on failure of the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP). Its Spokesman, Cynthia Whyte, also heaped the blame of the failed programme on incompetence, inefficiency, malfeasance, greed and corruption. Whyte said the Amnesty Programme has since been transformed […]

The Oluwo of Iwoland, Oba Abdulrosheed Adewale Akanbi, has denied that he punched his fellow monarch, Agbowu of Ogbaagbaa, Oba Dhikrulahi Akinropo. Oluwo was accused of descending on Oba Akinropo and battered him till he sustained a facial cut during a peace meeting convened by the Assistant Inspector General of Police in charge of Zone […]