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By Okhide Em’ya David Operatives of the Benin Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC,  on Tuesday,  September 13, 2022 arrested two owners of yahoo schools: Internet Fraud Coaching Centre (a.k.a HK), and seven suspected internet fraudsters  in Benin City, Edo State. A Statement by the Head, Media & Publicity of the Commission Mr. Wilson Uwujaren says …

*Panel emphasizes official welfare for motivation *leadership of Nigeria should be thoroughly overhauled to ensure proactive steps towards crime detection and prevention By Okhide Em’ya David Former Nigeria’s Inspector General of Police, Dr. Solomon Arase has strongly advocated that the nature of emerging security challenges facing the country are multi-dimensional and would require the skills and competencies which no single …

… declares zero budget for CBN, NNPC next year The Chairman of the Senate Committee on Finance, Senator Olamilekan Adeola, said on Wednesday that over 400 out of 541 Federal Government’s Ministries, Departments and Agencies are to be scrapped as recommended by Stephen Orosanye-led Presidential Committee on agencies’ rationalisation. Olamilekan, who made the declaration on the second day of the …

Militant leaders of the Niger-Delta region are currently at war over the N4.5 billion monthly pipeline surveillance contract awarded to former leader of Movement for the Emancipation of Niger-Delta, MEND, Government Ekpemupolo, popularly known as Tompolo, by the Federal Government, with Alhaji Asari Dokubo, yesterday, alleging that he (Tompolo) bluntly refused to involve him and other ex-militant leaders in a …

•Approves N2bn for facilities in Bayelsa Gas Hub  •Okays N28.1bn for augmentation of FCT infrastructure  •Gives nod to local production of COVID-19 vaccines The end appears to be in sight to the perennial scarcity of petroleum products across the country as the federal government yesterday gave an assurance that the rehabilitation work on the Port Harcourt Refinery would be completed …

Last Thursday’s death of Queen Elizabeth of the United Kingdom brought another opportunity to interrogate Nigerians’ perception of their own realities. Before her transition, arguments had risen as to the exact place of the monarch in history. A professor of Nigerian descent stirred the hornet’s nest with a tweet which recalled Great Britain’s role in the Nigerian civil war. It …

…Describe new owners as hustlers, hawks The National Union of Electricity Employees, NUEE, yesterdasy, urged the Federal Government to reverse the privatisation of the nation’s power sector, describing new owners of the privatised companies as ‘hustlers’ and ‘hawks’ who have contributed poorly to the power sector. The union also accused the new owners of deceiving the Federal Government into paying …

At the height of the chatter the current occupant of Aso Rock, Major General Muhamamdu Buhari (retd.), had been body snatched by a certain Jibril (or Jubril) from Sudan, this column pointed out that there is some sense in the nonsense being retailed in some quarters. Stories do not always need to be logical before they can be considered reasonable. …

The Federal Government said, yesterday, that protesting members of the National Association of Nigerian Students, NANS, who blocked the Lagos-Ibadan expressway violated the country’s law. Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, SAN, stated this while briefing State House correspondents at the end of the weekly Federal Executive Council, FEC, meeting presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari at the Council …

The use of gas as a transition fuel will not only help in stemming deforestation but advance Nigeria’s broader development goals, the Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo has said. Stating that the country has one of the largest gas reserves in the world, he believes other developing countries will also benefit from the adoption of gas as a transition fuel. …