The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has charged Richard Akindele, a former lecturer of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, to court. Akindele, who allegedly demanded sex from Monica Osagie, a postgraduate student of OAU, will appear before the federal high court, Osogbo, Osun state capital, on Monday. In an audio which
The just-concluded Africa Investment Forum successfully convened key stakeholders and provided a platform for effective dialogue to drive investments into the continent. Running on the margins of the Forum, the Africa Energy Market Place (AEMP) progressed with country-specific discussions that began at the inaugural AEMP in July 2018 aimed at removing barriers to private sector
The service charge on all transactions to be paid into treasury single account (TSA) of the federal government will be borne by payers, under the newly-announced model. This means the payment to enroll for the Joint Admissions and Matriculation (JAMB) exams, to obtain a driver’s licence and other government transactions has increased from November 1.
Some seven hundred and forty-seven thousand, eight hundred and fifty-three females are among the 1,090,233 people on Anti-Retroviral (ARV) treatment in Nigeria by June, National Agency for the Control of HIV/AIDS, says. In a statement to News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja on Friday, Mr Greg Ashefor, the Acting Director, Research Monitoring and Evaluation
THE chairman of the senate committee on banking, Senator Rafiu Ibrahim, says the executive proposed the cuts made in the budgets of ministries, department and agencies (MDAs). The upper legislative chamber had earlier approved that the funds for 2019 elections should be raised from recurrent, capital and service wide votes of the 2018 budget. But
MTN Nigeria is seeking N3 billion in damages and legal costs from the federal government. The telco is challenging the legality of N242 billion and $1.3 billion import duties and withholding tax demanded from it. NAN reports that Wole Olanipekun, MTN’s lead counsel, on Thursday informed the federal high court of the various processes filed
First Bank of Nigeria Plc on Friday launched a WhatsApp application to make banking more convenient for its 12.5 million customers. The FirstBank Chat Banking on WhatsApp was launched at the bank’s Digital Lab, Yaba, Lagos. The bank’s Managing Director, Dr Adesola Adeduntan, said at the launch that, as a leading banking services provider, First
Former Chelsea and Ivory Coast striker Didier Drogba has ended his glittering football career. Drogba, now 40 years old, decided to hang his boots after his team, Phoenix Rising, which he part-owned lost to Louisville City in the USL Cup final. It was the final of U.S. football’s second tier. According to BBC Sport, co-owner
MINISTER for budget and national planning, Udo Udoma, says in four years, every of the 774 local government areas in Nigeria will have internet connectivity. The minister disclosed this while speaking at the 42nd Annual Conference of Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators of Nigeria (ICSAN) in Lagos during the week. He said the government
When the former Premier of defunct Western region,late chief Obafemi Awolowo visited the then Military President, General Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida at Dodan Barrack in 1985 shortly after the latter took over in a coup de’tat from General Muhammad Buhari, the first thing Chief Awolowo told President Babangida was that “Nigeria is ripe for free and