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Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, DG WTO At 2022 WEF In Davos/ THE WHISTLER The World Trade Organisation has said that it is finding ways to prevent member countries from hoarding their food and avert global food crisis. The WTO Director General, Ngozi Okonjo Iweala, said the over three-month Russia-Ukraine crisis is posing …

A High Court in Damaturu, Yobe State, on Monday, ordered MTN Telecommunications Limited and Nigeria Electricity Liability Management Limited/GTE (NELMCO), to pay N200m to Hamsatu Abdullahi for negligence. Justice M. Lawu Lawan said: “I hold that the plaintiff has dully established by oral and documentary credible and unchallenged evidence against …

Rochas Okorocha in court today, May 30, 2022 The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arraigned Rochas Okorocha, former Imo State governor and presidential hopeful before a federal high court in Abuja. Okorocha, who currently represents Imo West senatorial district in the National Assembly, was arraigned before Justice Inyang …

The scope of the ongoing probe of the suspended Accountant-General of the Federation, Ahmed Idris, by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has reached N170billion. Idris, who was battling for bail last night, has opened up on some top government officials allegedly involved in some transactions. The EFCC has …

Yari, Yaro Anti graft agency, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), ha arrested Abdulaziz Yari, ex-Zamfara State governor over his alleged  involvement in the N84 billion fraud allegation against the former Accountant General of the Federation Ahmed Idris. Yari on Saturday picked the All Progressives Congress (APC) ticket for …

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arrested former Governor Abdulaziz Yari in connection with the agency’s ongoing investigation of the suspended Accountant-General of the Federation, Ahmed Idris. According to reports, Yari, a former governor of Zamfara State, was arrested on Sunday at his residence in Abuja days after he …

Dr. Samuel Uche Dr. Samuel Uche, a Prelate of the Methodist Church of Nigeria, has been kidnapped by gunmen in Abia State. The state police command spokesman, Geoffrey Ogbonna, who confirmed the abduction on Sunday, said the clergyman was abducted alongside Denis Mark, the Bishop of Methodist Church, Owerri Diocese, …

A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, on Friday did not immediately grant bail to Senator Rocha’s Okorocha, who is currently in the detention of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. Okorocha is one of the presidential aspirants of the All Progressives Congress primaries scheduled to hold on May 30. …

A student of the Akwa Ibom State University (AKSU), whose name has not been disclosed, has apologised over a leaked sex tape. An explicit sex video of the young woman had surfaced on Twitter earlier in the week, generating public criticism after the female involved was identified as an undergraduate …

Ugwu Charles Ugwu, a presidential aspirant of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has promised to do something about Nigeria’s situation if elected president in 2023. The largely unknown entrepreneur and attorney, stressed the need for the PDP to field a southerner as a consensus candidate in tomorrow’s primary election. Ugwu …