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Oyo State Government has sealed off Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company Plc offices in the state for disconnecting electricity supply to the state secretariat. The company said the state went ahead to shut its office despite that it was owing it N450 million over three years. The Chief Operating Officer of …

As part of efforts towards implementing the National Digital Economy Policy and Strategy (NDEPS), the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) engages Lagos State stakeholders to establish a sustainable collaboration adequately needed for a viable digital ecosystem in the country. The engagement program ‘Creating Boundaries and Breaking Boundaries: Towards Digitalisation …

Armed bandits, Wednesday morning, killed a divisional police officer, A. Rano, in Jibia local government area of Katsina State during an attack on Magama section of Jibia town. Multiple sources revealed that the bandits arrived at the area around 3 a.m. and laid siege to it for three hours, despite …

The Nigeria Security and Civil Defense Corps, Rivers State Command on Monday paraded 19 suspected dealers of illegal oil bunkering activities arrested in different parts of the state. The state Commandant of the NSCDC, Abu Tambuwal, who paraded the suspects in Port Harcourt, said the command in the course of …

Abba Kyari/Hushpuppi Abubakar Malami, attorney-general of the federation, says the federal government is working with the US on the “possible extradition” of Abba Kyari, suspended deputy commissioner of police (DCP). In July 2019, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) had revealed how Kyari allegedly collaborated with Hushpuppi, a self-confessed international …

Yemi Osinbajo Yemi Osinbajo, Nigeria’s Vice President has denied reports that he plans to declare his intention to run for president ahead of the 2023 elections after the All Progressives Congress Convention slated for February 26, 2021. Earlier on Monday, there were reports that Osinbajo would announce his presidential bid …

Yomi Alliyu, counsel to Sunday Adeyemo, a ‘Yoruba nation’ agitator better known as Sunday Igboho, says the government of Benin Republic has extended the activist’s detention period by six months. Igboho is being held in a prison facility in Cotonou, Benin Republic, after he was arrested at Cardinal Bernardin International …

The associations and unions in the aviation industry, on Tuesday morning, suspended their planned nationwide industrial action billed to commence today after signing a fresh Memorandum of Settlement (MoS) with the federal government. A meeting, which was held at the headquarters of the Federal Ministry of Labour and Employment, started …

The house of representatives has commenced an investigation into “unclaimed and unremitted funds” said to be in various accounts in commercial banks in Nigeria. The ad hoc committee on unclaimed funds in Nigerian commercial banks and infractions by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), which was inaugurated on Monday, is …

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Monday arraigned a company, Marqott Nigeria Limited, an alleged accomplice in the $9.6bn Gas Supply and Processing Agreement between the Ministry of Petroleum Resources and Process and Industrial Development Limited, P&ID Limited, on four counts of money laundering. One of the count …