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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) says its operatives have arrested Kelechi Vitalis Anozie, identified as the founder of Praying City Church in Owerri, Imo, over his alleged involvement in $182,800 wire fraud. In […]

The justice department in the United States has denied reports that Hushpuppi, the embattled socialite, pulled off a $400,000 fraud from inside prison. Reports had earlier claimed that US prosecutors indicted Hushpuppi for fresh fraud […]

Barely 24 hours after the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) opened the doors for the sale of nomination forms to aspirants for all positions, former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has got his. The party, at its […]

The Lagos State Police Command on Wednesday assured Lagos State residents to go about their daily activities without fear, saying it has deployed “massive” patrol teams in every nook and cranny of the state to […]

Tech giant Google is celebrating the life of Nigerian educator, ceramicist, glassworker, and potter Ladi Kwali with a doodle on its search homepage. Doodles are changes made to the Google logo to celebrate holidays, anniversaries, […]

THE United Kingdom (UK) Embassy in Nigeria has announced a temporary suspension of study, work and family visa applications, barely two months after it resumed processing, as priority has now been placed on applications made […]

The All Progressives Congress (APC) national leader Bola Ahmed Tinubu is expected to meet with the Senate caucus of the ruling party on Wednesday afternoon. The president of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, made the disclosure […]

The UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator in Nigeria, Matthias Schmale, says the food economy in the West Africa and Sahel sub-region is projected to reach 480 billion dollars in 2030. Schmale said this at the […]

Stakeholders in the downstream segment of the oil and gas sector as well as some members of the private sector have projected that the country’s spending on subsidy may exceed the N3 trillion appropriated for […]

Rising energy costs both in electricity and fuel segments, geopolitical tension and fiscal indiscipline have triggered fresh concern over fast-rising prices even as headline inflation rose marginally to 15.7 per cent in February, 0.1 per […]

Parents, undergraduates and other stakeholders have voiced their disappointment as the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) extended its ongoing strike by two months. The aggrieved teachers had on February 14 declared a one-month warning […]

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has commenced a grand plan to wean deposit money banks (DMBs) off the historical risk and cost of cash management, a new document issued by the regulator has revealed. […]

If the projection of the World Bank is anything to take seriously, Nigerian businesses may have lost nothing less than $232 billion (N96.4 trillion) in the last eight years that the Federal Government and operators […]

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has officially extended its ongoing warning strike by eight weeks. The decision was reached after a meeting of the union’s national executive council (NEC) on Monday morning at […]

The Lagos state police command says Williams Tadule, the dispatch rider allegedly caught with a 10-month-old child inside a delivery box did not kidnap the child. On Saturday, an undated video where a dispatch rider […]

Two four-year-olds, Wasiu Dauda and Alimeen Ibrahim, have been abducted in the Ijesha area of Lagos. Seun Funmilayo, a relative of one of the mothers of the victims, told PREMIUM TIMES on Saturday that the […]

Buba Marwa, chairman of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), has charged officers of the agency to avoid enticement from drug barons. According to a statement issued on Saturday by Femi Babafemi, NDLEA spokesman, […]

Zainab Ahmed, minister of finance, says the federal government has removed the subsidy on electricity tariff. She also hinted at government’s plans to remove subsidy on petrol. Ahmed said this at a virtual meeting of […]