Inibehe Effiong Inibehe Effiong, a human rights lawyer, has sued the Akwa Ibom State Chief Judge , Justice Ekaette Obot , seeking for enforcement of his fundamental rights to liberty and fair hearing. The Lagos based lawyer has been in the Correctional facility in the past 21 days following order …
Read More »Wike gifts Peter Odili mansion as he marks 74th birthday
Wike, Odili Nyesom Wike, governor of Rivers State has gifted a mansion to Peter Odili, a former governor of the state on the occasion of his 74th birthday. Mr. Kelvin Ebiri, media aide to the governor who disclosed this in a statement, said the residence was built and donated to …
Read More »My husband is too lazy, separate me from him – woman tells court
Court Tawakalitu Sanusi, a businesswoman, has asked a Mapo Grade A Customary Court in Ibadan to dissolve her 15 year-old marriage to estranged husband, Olaide whom she described as ‘’too lazy.’’ Sanusi said she is further frustrated by her husband’s alleged ineptitude when he barred her from having access to …
Read More »Sheikh Ibrahim Khalil: Why I want to be Kano governor
Sheikh Ibrahim Khalil, the governorship candidate of African Democratic Congress (ADC) in Kano (left) receiving a document on the Kano Citizens’ Charter of Demands, from the Partnership to Engage, Reform and Learn (PERL), a Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO). Sheikh Ibrahim Khalil, the Kano State governorship candidate of the African Democratic Congress …
Read More »Nigeria’s Bank of Industry raises $1 billion loan for companies
Bank of Industry The Bank of Industry (BoI) has announced the successful completion of a landmark EURO 1 billion Guaranteed Senior Loan Facility. This is to further enhance its capacity to deliver on its mandate, in line with President Muhammadu Buhari’s economic diversification agenda. According to the bank, the initially …
Read More »DisCos takeover: BEDC MD Osibodu arrested, alleges threat to life
Managing Direction of Benin Electricity Distribution Company (BEDC) Plc, Mrs. Funke Oshibodu, The embattled Managing Direction of Benin Electricity Distribution Company (BEDC) Plc, Mrs. Funke Osibodu, has raised the alarm over alleged threat to her life, following her arrest by police operatives, over alleged trespass of the company’s premises. Osibodu …
Read More »TCN Suspends Interview-Before-Promotion Directive After Protest By Electricity Workers
Managing Director, TCN, Dr Sule Abdulaziz The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) has appealed to the electricity workers to suspend their proposed strike billed to begin on Aug. 17. The Managing Director, TCN, Dr Sule Abdulaziz, made the appeal in a letter to the workers on Tuesday following the threat …
Read More »EFCC Recovers N1.4 Billion NHIS Fund
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Tuesday released a statement that it had recovered an additional sum of one billion, four hundred million naira (N1.4 billion) for the National Health Insurance Scheme, NHIS. According to the statement, the money which was released to the NHIS on August 5, …
Read More »Jaiz Bank Gets Shareholders’ Approval To Raise N150bn For Expansion
Shareholders of Jaiz Bank Plc on Tuesday gave approval to the Board of Directors of the bank to raise the sum of N150bn through issuance of Sukuk or Equity from the Nigerian capital market. The approval was unanimously given at the Bank’s 10th Annual General Meeting held in Abuja. Through …
Read More »Senate knocks NSITF over misappropriation of N17.2bn
Both present and past management of the Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund have come under fire in the Senate for failing to justify its spending of N17.158 billion in 2013 with required evidential documents. Some of which were alleged to have been eaten up by termites. The N17.158 billion as stated in …
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