November 09, 2022
Nigeria: Why Bawa's Conviction On Contempt Charge Is Wrong - EFCC
EFCC said Mr Bawa was wrongly convicted of contempt. Read more »
Nigeria: Why Mining Police Didn't Stop Illegal Activities - Minister
The Mines and Steel minister says the mining police failed because it was not funded by the federal government. Read more »
November 08, 2022
Nigeria: Court Jails Financial Crimes Commission Chairperson for Contempt
The court convicted the EFCC chairperson and ordered the Inspector of General of Police to put him in Kuje prison in Abuja for disobeying an earlier order. Read more »
Nigeria: Many Feared Killed As Fire Razes Market in Anambra State
The fire was caused by an explosion, a witness said. Read more »
West Africa: Special Report - Traders Count Losses As Floods Submerge West Africa's Largest Textile Market in Kano
The flood incidents recorded in the textile market followed the blockage of the 'Kwarin Gogau' Read more »
Nigeria: Hushpuppi Gets 11-Year Jail Term, To Pay U.S.$1.8 Million Restitution
Hushpuppi was jailed for conspiring to launder tens of millions of dollars through online scams. Read more »
Nigeria: EFCC Chair Reacts to Contempt Judgment
The Abuja High Court, in a ruling convicted Mr Bawa for failing to carry out its order in a case involving the Director of Operations at the Nigerian Air Force, Rufus Ojuawo. Read more »
Nigeria: Budget - Akume Laments Allocation of N180 Billion to Special Duties Ministry in 2023
The minister says the reduction by 71 per cent of the 2022 budgetary allocation to the ministry for the 2023 fiscal year will make it extremely difficult for it to function… Read more »
Nigeria: Over 12,000 Inmates Freed in Six Years - Minister of Justice
Mr Malami says that decongesting the prisons was top on the President Muhammadu Buhari's to-do list upon assumption of office in 2015. Read more »
Nigeria: Presidential Candidate's One-Million-Man March Grounds Traffic, Businesses in Ogun
The solidarity walk ignored the routes provided by the state government Read more »
Nigeria: 2023 - Police Distribute Uniforms, Anti-Riot Equipment to Personnel
The police said the anti-riot equipment distributed include bullet-proof vests with armoured plates, ballistic helmets, long and short-range tear gas for civil disorder management… Read more »
Nigeria: Why Peter Obi May No Longer Attend Presidential Debates - Campaign Council
"This election season, they (Peter Obi and Yusuf Baba-Ahmed) will only be prepared to mount the podium, with their peers in this presidential race, and not with any surrogates or… Read more »
Nigeria: Lagos 2023 - Sanwo-Olu in 'Significant Lead' Ahead of PDP, Labour Party Candidates - Poll
The poll reveals a significant lead by Mr Sanwo-Olu of the All Progressives Congress (APC), with Mr Adediran and Mr Rhodes-Vivour trailing at a distance. Read more »
Nigeria: 2023 - Poll Shows Kwara Governor Favourite to Win
The poll shows the incumbent governor is the favourite to win the governorship election Read more »
Nigeria: NDLEA Seizes N200 Million Worth of Hard Drugs Within 10 Months in Cross River
About 159 people were arrested within the period, according to the agency. Read more »
Nigeria: 2023 - Tinubu Promises to Establish National Agricultural Commodity Directorate
Mr Tinubu said the directorate would be charged with the responsibility of providing required farming implements to farmers at subsidised rates. Read more »
Nigeria: South-East Not Marginalised in Buhari's Rail Project - Federal Govt
"There is no deliberate attempt whatsoever to marginalise the South-east and if anything, that is the one part of the country that has benefited the most on PMB infrastructure… Read more »
Nigeria: 2023 - Poll Shows Kano NNPP Governorship Candidate Ahead of APC
The poll showed that undecided voters would ultimately decide which candidate emerges as Governor of Kano State in the 2023 governorship elections. Read more »
Nigeria: INEC Didn't Disqualify Our Candidates in Lagos - PDP
Media reports had indicated that 21 out of the 40 House of Assembly candidates of the PDP for the 2023 elections were allegedly disqualified over controversies arising from its… Read more »
November 07, 2022
Nigeria: Video About Kano State Governor - Court Orders Flogging of Kannywood TikTok Skit Makers
A magistrate court in Kano on Monday ordered the flogging of two Kannywood TikTok skit makers, Mubarak Muhammad (Uniquepikin) and Nazifi Muhammad. Read more »
Nigeria: UK Updates Travel Advisory On Nigeria, Says Abuja Now Relatively Safe
"The FCDO no longer advises against all but essential travel to the Federal Capital Territory, including the city of Abuja, but risks remain," it said in its latest advisory. Read more »
Nigeria: Ruling Party Presidential Candidate Might Not Attend Any Presidential Debates - Campaign Team
Mr Tinubu on Sunday avoided the presidential debate organised by Arise Television and the Centre for Democracy and Development, the latest such miss by the APC candidate. Read more »
Nigeria: CBN, New Banknotes, and How Not to Run Monetary Policy
The presence in circulation of different series of the US dollar suggests that there are other less-disruptive-to-economic-activity ways of doing this. Read more »
Nigeria: Gunmen Attack Soldiers in Imo Community
"The soldiers were on routine patrol in the area when they came under attack by armed youths." Read more »
Nigeria: Hushpuppi's Wife, Imams Write Judge As US Court Sentences Fraudster Today
The US district court in California is set to sentence Hushpuppi over fraud charges, today, Monday. Read more »