Metro – Page 12 – City Business News

June 16, 2025 No Responses

EFCC Arraigns Director For Alleged N13.8b Fraud

The Port Harcourt Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC has arraigned the director of Glossalalia Nigeria Ltd and Pelenged Nigeria Ltd, Precious Williams before Justice S. I . Mark of the Federal High Court, sitting in...

June 16, 2025 No Responses

NDLEA Intercepts N1.1b codeine

THE National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has intercepted 157,800 bottles of codeine-based syrup at Port Harcourt Ports, Onne, Rivers.The shipment has an estimated street value of over ₦1.1 billion, according to a statement released on Sunday in Abuja...

June 15, 2025 No Responses

Minister Unveils NDDC Projects In Cross River

The Minister of Regional Development, Engr. Abubakar Momoh, has commissioned the Ultra-Modern NDDC Cross River State Office and a road network totalling 8,137 km in Calabar South and Municipality. He also flagged off the first phase of distributing Handheld Ti...

June 14, 2025 No Responses

Firm Drags Zenith Bank To UK Parliament, ICC Over $64m Contract Judgment

The stage is set for another round of legal battle between Zenith Bank and Owigs and Obigs Nigeria Limited over what the company terms institutional sabotage.In a petition before the UK Parliament and the International Criminal Court Hague, Owigs and...

June 14, 2025 No Responses

EFCC Arraigns Top Executives Of Sun Trust Bank Over Alleged $12 Million Fraud

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC on Friday, June 13, 2025 arraigned the duo of Halima Buba and Innocent Mbagwu before Justice Emeka Nwite of the Federal High Court, Abuja for alleged fraud.The defendants, who are Managing Director/Chief Execu...

June 14, 2025 No Responses

Edo Inaugurates N1b Interest-Free Loan Scheme For Traders, Farmers

Edo State Governor, Monday Okpebholo on Friday inaugurated a N1billion interest-free loan scheme, targeting farmers and traders across the state.According to Okpebholo, the initiative would support over 5,000 beneficiaries.He said that it was designed to stimu...

June 10, 2025 No Responses

Ikeja Electric Insists On Zero Tolerance For Vandalism As Court Convicts Three Persons

For vandalizing and stealing electricity distribution equipment within the Ikeja Electric network, Magistrate courts in Lagos recently convicted three persons.The Magistrate Court sitting at Ikorodu on 5th May 2025 convicted and sentenced Adegbite Jamiu for va...

June 10, 2025 No Responses

Police Kill Seven Kidnappers

The Nigeria Police Force has killed seven suspected kidnappers and arrested five alleged armed robbers in separate raids across Delta and Kaduna states. Force Public Relations Officer ACP Olumuyiwa Adejobi disclosed this in a statement on Monday, referencing t...

June 9, 2025 No Responses

NDLEA Intercepts Illicit Drugs Packaged As Green Tea

Sixty-six parcels of loud, a strong strain of cannabis, packaged as green tea, have been intercepted by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) at the import shed of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, Lagos. A statement.....

June 8, 2025 No Responses

NDDC Promotes Tree Planting, Tackles Environmental Challenges

The Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, has launched a tree-planting campaign aimed at promoting environmental sustainability and community development in the Niger Delta region.The campaign kicked off with a stakeholders’ meeting in Port Harcourt ...

June 5, 2025 No Responses

Customs Reinforces Anti-Fuel Smuggling, Deploys New Officers

The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has intensified its efforts to combat fuel smuggling with the deployment of newly inducted officers to Operation Whirlwind, a tactical unit launched in May 2024 to check the illegal movement of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS)...

May 31, 2025 No Responses

FRSC Boss Mourns Kano Sports Commission Crash Victims

The Corps Marshal, Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Shehu Mohammed, has expressed profound sadness and commiserated with the Kano State Government and the families of the Kano Sports Commission.The Commission athletes were returning from the just concluded Na...

May 31, 2025 No Responses

EFCC Hands Over Forfeited Properties Of Nnamani To AMCON

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has handed over four properties forfeited by Rainbownet Nigeria Limited, a company owned by a former governor of Enugu State, Chimaroke Nnamani, to the Asset Management Company of Nigeria, AMCON in Enugu Stat...

May 31, 2025 No Responses

Customs Intercepts 1,577 Jerrycans Of Smuggled PMS

The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) through its Operation Whirlwind has intercepted 1,577 jerrycans (39,425 litres) of smuggled petroleum products and eight vehicles used for their transportation, with a combined value of N63,425,000 across the Lagos and Ogun ax...