Governor Siminalayi Fubara of Rivers State has ordered immediate temporary relocation of the sitting of the State House of Assembly to the Auditorium, Admin Block of the Government House, Port Harcourt. The order was contained in the State’s official Gazette, Executive Order of the Rivers State Government 001-2023. According to the governor, the decision was…
Senator Ali Ndume has condemned the controversial cybersecurity levy recently introduced by the Central Bank of Nigeria, adding that the Federal Government cannot continue to impose levies on Nigerians without increasing their income. The All Progressives Congress lawmaker representing Borno South Senatorial District, disclosed this on Channels Television’s Politics Today Programme on Friday. Ndume stressed…
A federal appeals court has upheld the criminal conviction of former Trump strategist Steve Bannon. The decision may soon send Bannon, 70, to prison, after years of legal wrangling. He was convicted in 2022 of contempt of Congress for refusing to provide testimony or documents to the committee probing the 6 January Capitol riot. Bannon’s…
The embattle senior executive of cryptocurrency exchange Binance, Tigran Gambaryan, has appealed for assistance from the government of the United States of America in a viral video recorded in detention. In the video footage circulating online, Tigran Gambaryan revealed that he has been detained for a month, adding that he recently discovered his partner, Nadeem…
Justice J.A. Kereng of the Gombe State High Court, sitting in Gombe on Friday, May 10, 2024 convicted and sentenced one George Habu Nuhu to six months imprisonment for fraud. Nuhu was prosecuted by the Gombe Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC on a one-count charge of intent to defraud. The…
Justice Evelyn Anyadike of the Federal High Court, Ilorin on Wednesday, May 8, 2024, struck out the objection against the admissibility of the statements tendered by the Ilorin Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, in a $10,000 fraud trial of an Ilorin-based businessman, Chukudubem Ezenwa and one Adeleke Damilola. Ezenwa and…
Investigators at the Uyo Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, have arrested forty-four(44) suspected internet fraudsters. The suspected fraudsters were arrested in an early morning sting operation on Thursday, May 9, 2024, at Satellite Town, Tinapa junction and parliamentary extension areas of Calabar in Cross River State. Items recovered from them…
A federal high court in Abuja has rejected a request to cancel an arrest warrant issued against Yahaya Bello, the former governor of Kogi state. The judge, Emeka Nwite, criticized Bello for filing applications while failing to appear in court. He accused Bello of trying to derail the case brought against him by the Economic…
A contractor with the Central Bank of Nigeria, Mr Victor Onyejiuwa, on Thursday, told the Lagos State Special Offences Court in Ikeja how he was pressured to pay $600,000 before he was paid for a contract. Onyejiuwa, the Managing Director of Resource Computer Limited, testified in the ongoing trial of the former CBN Governor, Mr…
