Metro – Page 8 – City Business News

July 12, 2025 No Responses

EFCC Monitors Local Government Elections In Lagos

Operatives of the Lagos Directorates 1 and 2 of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Saturday joined other law enforcement agencies in monitoring the conduct of Local Government Elections across Lagos State.The deployment was part of efforts to...

July 10, 2025 No Responses

FRSC Data Reveals Spike In Road Fatalities

Fatalities from road traffic crashes are on the increase across Nigeria.Indeed, the first quarter of the year was marked by several tragic incidents.Nigerians wake up daily to disturbing reports of containers tragically dropping from trucks on passenger buses,...

July 9, 2025 No Responses

EFCC Probes Suspect Over Undeclared $29,000 At Lagos Airport

Operatives of the Lagos Zonal Directorate 2 of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, have commenced investigation of one Rajesh Kumar arrested by the Nigeria Customs Service, NCS, for allegedly failing to declare the sum of $29,000( Twenty Nine.....

July 8, 2025 No Responses

EFCC Probes Suspect Over Undeclared $420,900, £5,825, CFA3,946,500

The Kano Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has commenced a comprehensive investigation into the case of one Ahmad Salisu, arrested by the Nigeria Customs Service, NCS, for allegedly concealing and failing to declare the s...

July 8, 2025 No Responses

FG Donates 3500 Life-Jackets To Ogun State Waterways Operators

As part of efforts to enhance the safety of waterways across the nation, the federal government has donated 3500 life-jackets to Ogun State Government for waterways operators in the state. The Minister of Marine and Blue Economy, Adegboyega Oyetola, who...

June 19, 2025 No Responses

Olori Janet Afolabi To Youth Corpers: Acquire Additional Skills For Brighter Future

Olori Janet Afolabi, Queen of Apomu Kingdom, has delivered a motivational speech to about 3,000 National Youth Service Corp, NYSC, members, encouraging them to acquire skills and be financially independent.Olori Afolabi in her speech, emphasised the importance...

June 16, 2025 No Responses

Court Jails Ecobank Staff One Year For N2.4m Cybercrime

Justice Yellim Bogoro of the Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos, on Monday, June 16, 2025, convicted and sentenced one Solomon Stephen Ufayo, a staff of Ecobank Plc, to one-year imprisonment for cybercrime.The convict was arraigned on Friday, May...

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...