Category: Metro

EFCC Re-Arraigns Ex-Bank PHB MD, Francis Atuche
December 16, 2024 No Responses

EFCC Re-Arraigns Ex-Bank PHB MD, Francis Atuche

The Lagos Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Monday, December 16, 2024, re-arraigned a former Managing Director of the defunct Bank PHB Plc, Francis Atuche, on a nine-count charge bordering on conspiracy to commit felony...
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Boat Mishap Claims 20 Lives In River Benue
December 16, 2024 No Responses

Boat Mishap Claims 20 Lives In River Benue

Twenty persons, who are mostly women and children, have been feared dead following a boat mishap on the River Benue on Saturday around Ocholonya in Agatu Local Government Area of Benue State. The victims were reportedly returning to Doma in...
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Dufil Disburses Bursary To students From Seven Communities
December 15, 2024 No Responses

Dufil Disburses Bursary To students From Seven Communities

Agro -Allied Resources and Processing (ARPN), a subsidiary of Dufil foods has registered its name in Edo State as a company interested in the development of communities around her plantation.City Business News reports that the Company, recently, disbursed burs...
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XMAS: UBA Lights Up Lagos Marina Garden
December 3, 2024 No Responses

XMAS: UBA Lights Up Lagos Marina Garden

United Bank for Africa (UBA) through its Corporate Social Responsibility Arm, the UBA Foundation, has held its annual Garden Light-Up ceremony to kick-start the festive season.The ceremony, held at the United Bank for Africa (UBA) head office in Lagos, brought...
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EFCC Makes Single Largest Asset Recovery
December 2, 2024 No Responses

EFCC Makes Single Largest Asset Recovery

Justice Jude Onwuegbuzie, on Monday, December 2, 2024 gave a ruling on a final forfeiture of an estate in Abuja measuring 150,500 square metres and containing 753 Units of duplexes and other apartments.This is the single largest asset recovery by...
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IGP Orders Probe Into Kogi Boat Mishap
December 1, 2024 No Responses

IGP Orders Probe Into Kogi Boat Mishap

The Inspector General of Police (IGP) Kayode Egbetokun has ordered an investigation into the boat mishap in Kogi State.  Scores of persons were feared dead in the accident that happened on Friday. In response, the IGP “directed the Force Marine...
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Lagos Seals Mega Plaza
December 1, 2024 No Responses

Lagos Seals Mega Plaza

The Lagos State Wastewater Management Office (LSWMO) has clamped down on the Mega Plaza on Breadfruit Street, Lagos Island for discharging untreated wastewater into the public drains, through the use of a pumping machine.  According to LSWMO, the pum...
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Navy Bursts Petrol-Smuggling Syndicate
November 24, 2024 No Responses

Navy Bursts Petrol-Smuggling Syndicate

The Nigerian Navy’s Forward Operating Base (FOB) at Mbo local government area of Akwa Ibom State, has smashed a syndicate specialising in smuggling petroleum products and other contraband goods to Cameroon and other countries within the Gulf of Guinea region...
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EFCC Arraigns REA Director For Alleged N223.4m Fraud
November 22, 2024 No Responses

EFCC Arraigns REA Director For Alleged N223.4m Fraud

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arraigned the Director of Human Resources Management of the Rural Electrification Agency (REA) Mr. Sulieman Garba Bulkwang before Justice Joyce Abdulmalik of the Federal High Court, Abuja for fraud.Accord...
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N43.5m Fraud: Court Jails NOGASA Chairman, Fatuyi 21 Years
November 19, 2024 No Responses

N43.5m Fraud: Court Jails NOGASA Chairman, Fatuyi 21 Years

Justice Mojisola Dada of the Special Offences Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos, on Monday, November 18, 2024, convicted and sentenced Fatuyi Yemi Philips, Chairman, Natural Oil and Gas Suppliers Association of Nigeria, NOGASA, to 21 years imprisonment for N43.5m ...
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$700,000 Fraud: EFCC Arraigns Syndicate Impersonating Olukoyede
November 14, 2024 No Responses

$700,000 Fraud: EFCC Arraigns Syndicate Impersonating Olukoyede

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has arraigned two members of an alleged syndicate, Ojobo Joshua and Aliyu Hashim for attempted fraud and impersonating the Executive Chairman of the Commission, Ola Olukoyede.  They were arraigned on Wed...
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EFCC Reacts To Alleged Naira Abuse At Goje’s Daughter Wedding
November 11, 2024 No Responses

EFCC Reacts To Alleged Naira Abuse At Goje’s Daughter Wedding

The attention of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has been drawn to a viral video where the nation’s currency, Naira, was freely sprayed at a wedding ceremony in Kano, Kano State on Friday, October 24, 2024.Allegations of the...
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Customs Auctions 67,000 Liters Of Seized PMS
November 11, 2024 No Responses

Customs Auctions 67,000 Liters Of Seized PMS

Operation WHIRLWIND of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), being coordinated by the Office of the National Security Adviser (ONSA) has auctioned 67,000 Liters Of Seized Petroleum Motor Spirit (PMS) with Duty Paid Value (DPV) of N84, 870,000,000In a statement on...
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Armed Group Demands 20% Shares Of Okomu Oil, Own LGA, Amnesty
November 11, 2024 No Responses

Armed Group Demands 20% Shares Of Okomu Oil, Own LGA, Amnesty

Ongoing crisis within the Okomu community in the Ovia South West Local Government Area (LGA) remains unabated, notwithstanding the presence of military personnel around that axis.It will be recalled that in the Month of May this year, an armed group...
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