Ola Olukoyede, the Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission EFCC, has announced that the body has recovered lost funds from the CBEX fraud scheme. Olukoyede did not announce the amount recovered, but he assured Nigerians that the EFCC is taking action against the promoters of the scheme. The EFCC Chairman emphasised that…
Nigeria’s active crude oil rigs have increased from 44 last week to 46, according to the Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission (NUPRC). This growth reflects ongoing efforts to boost the country’s oil production capacity and attract greater investment into the sector. NUPRC Chief Executive Gbenga Komolafe announced this development during a recent workshop for media…
The Nigerian government has denied reports that President Bola Tinubu has halted the issuance of five-year multiple-entry visas to United States citizens, insisting that no such directive has been given. In a statement issued on Wednesday by Bayo Onanuga, Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, the Presidency described the claims as misinformation…
Senior Special Assistant to The President on Media and Publicity, Temitope Ajayi, has replied the former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha, who said President Bola Ahmed Tinubu did not make former President Muhammadu Buhari President in 2015. In a post on his social media account, the Presidential aide said even though…
Senate President Godswill Akpabio has announced the replacement of suspended senator, Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, as chairman of the Senate Committee on Diaspora and Non-Governmental Organisations Akpabio, during plenary on Thursday, announced Senator Aniekan Bassey as the new chairman of the committee. As a result, Bassey replaces Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, whose leadership of the committee had been uncertain…
Ahead of the July 24 National Executive Committee meeting of the All Progressives Congress to take a position on the substantive national chairman of the party, former Kogi governor, Yahaya Bello may have decided to throw his hat into the ring. Our reporter sighted on Thursday, posters of the former Kogi governor on the busy…
Lauretta Onochie, former Special Assistant (SA) to former President Muhammadu Buhari, has claimed that Nigeria’s incumbent President, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, did not support Buhari’s emergence as the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in 2014. Buhari, a two-term president of Nigeria from 2015 to 2023, emerged the first presidential candidate of the APC in…
Mohammed Adoke, former attorney-general of the federation and minister of justice, says he has forgiven everyone behind his ordeal in the prosecution of the OPL245 oil block litigation. Adoke spoke in Abuja on Thursday at the public presentation of his memoir, OPL245: Inside Story of the $1.3 billion Nigerian oil block. He said the motive…
Thousands of users were left stranded on Wednesday morning as Microsoft 365 suffered a major outage, locking many out of their Outlook email accounts and disrupting daily work activities. The issue, which began around 5 a.m., triggered over 200 outage reports globally. Affected users said they were suddenly logged out of their accounts, with error…
The Supreme Court has affirmed the election of Governor Monday Okpebholo of Edo State. In a unanimous decision delivered on Thursday, a five-member panel led by Justice Mohammed Garba dismissed, for lacking in merit, the appeal filed by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, candidate, Asuerinme Ighodalo. The appeal sought to nullify the outcome of the…