The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission had preferred an 11-count charge against the musician bordering on conspiracy, possession of counterfeit cards, and fraud.
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The State Chief Judge, Justice Nasir Ajanah administered Oath of Office on Onoja on Monday at Government House, Lokoja.
Gianluigi Nuzzi’s latest work, “Giudizio Universale” (Last Judgement), was released in Italy on Monday, and the La Repubblica newspaper ran advance excerpts.
Johannes Bonfere, the coach of Nigeria’s Dream Team I, which won gold medal at the Atlanta ’96 Olympics, said on Monday that he had no plan to assume any coaching job in Nigeria for now.
Akande is a first prosecution witness and a banker with a second-generation bank who testified at the resumed trial of Fayose.
The FRSC confirmed on Monday that two persons sustained injuries at Onitsha in Anambra when two containers fell off an articulated vehicle at Upper Iweka on the Onitsha-Owerri highway.
President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday departed Abuja for Sochi, Russia to attend a three-day Russia-Africa Summit holding from October 23 to October 25.
Abaribe, in a statement on Monday in Abuja, urged Buhari to rise above party affiliations and intervene to ensure the country’s constitution was protected, if the authorities in Kogi state failed to do so.
The 64-year-old Dermendzhiev will replace Krasimir Balakov, who resigned a few days after a 6-0 defeat by England last Monday when some supporters taunted the visitors with Nazi salutes and monkey chants, prompting match officials to halt the game twice. [L3N2733MF]
Ortom made the appeal when he visited one Wanhena Cheku, a victim of herders men attack now recuperating at the Federal Medical Centre at Apir in Makurdi.
Celebrities and fans alike have continued to congratulate musician, David ‘Davido’ Adeleke and his fiancée, Chioma Avril on the birth of their son.
Designated Non-Resident Persons Tax Office, the notice clarified that a non-resident person refers to a foreign company as defined in the Companies Income Tax Act (Cap C2, LFN 2004 as amended) or an individual (who is resident outside Nigeria and derives income or profit from Nigeria) as defined in the Personal Income Tax Act (Cap P8, LFN 2004 as amended).
Segun Sowunmi is the spokesperson of the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party for the 2019 elections in Nigeria, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar. Sowunmi speaks on behalf of his principal in this interview
An age-long adage acknowledges the fact that some men are born great, many achieved greatness while some had greatness trusted on them. Interestingly, any keen reader of his enviable storyin the last five decades or more, would of course readily admit that Chief Afe Babalola is a unique profile in dramatic trajectory from grass to grace
This was contained in a statement signed by Lawrence Olanrewaju, Assistant Secretary-General of NANS, and made available to the News Agency of Nigeria on Sunday in Ibadan.
With the Federal Government looking to generate more revenue from the ports, a key government agency, the Nigerian Ports Authority, was entrusted to Hadiza Bala Usman, who, at the time, promised to make NPA a model agency. After three years in the saddle, Usman spoke exclusively to Eromosele Abiodun of THISDAY Newspaper on how she has turned the NPA around and entrenched transparency and accountability, and her crusade against entrenched interests working against NPA. Excerpts:
The Peoples Democratic Party in Oyo State says the criticism of the planned expansion of Iwo Road interchange in Ibadan with N8 billion by the All Progressives Congress is a demonstration of the party’s insensitivity to the plight of commuters in the axis.
The Minister of Finance, Zainab Ahmed, on Sunday said the Federal Government’s request for a World Bank loan to finance the power sector was at the verge of being granted.
The Central Bank of Nigeria has opposed plans by MTN to charge their subscribers for Unstructured Supplementary Service Data access to banking services from October 21.
The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Oyo State has raised the alarm over plans by the Governor Seyi Makinde-led administration to spend N8 billion on a proposed reconstruction of the popular Iwo Road interchange in Ibadan, the state capital.