Category: Metro
Auditor-general’s report indicts Mele Kyari led NNPCL of diverting N514bn meant for the federation
A report by the office of Nigeria’s Auditor-General has indicted the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) for alleged misappropriation [...]
Retired army generals to get $20,000 medical allowance, bulletproof SUVs, others while junior military personnel are yet to get full payment of long overdue entitlements (Photos)
President Bola Tinubu has approved a retirement package that includes $20,000 for foreign medical treatment, bulletproof SUVs, and cooks, amon [...]
3 Nigerian women arrested, prosecuted for drug trafficking in Saudi Arabia regain freedom
Three Nigerian women arrested and prosecuted for drug trafficking in Saudi Arabia have been acquitted and released.
In a statement on Sunday, Kimiebi [...]
How Lagos resident’s money vanished from account after loosing UBA ATM card
Gabriel Olatunde, a Lagos State resident, has narrated how N81,000 mysteriously vanished from his United Bank for Africa (UBA) account.
Olatunde re [...]
Lagos resident loses N537,000 life savings to fake UBA customer representative
Lilian Ojibe, a Lagos resident has lost N537,000, all the money she had saved for five years in United Bank for Africa, UBA, in preparation for her te [...]
LPDC rejects Afe Babalola’s firm bid to disbar Dele Farotimi
The Legal Practitioners Disciplinary Committee (LPDC) has rejected a request by Emmanuel Chambers, Afe Babalola’s law firm, to disbar Dele Farotimi, a [...]
Coca-Cola, FrieslandCampina, Guinness shut down by Lagos government over regulatory non-compliance
The Lagos State Water Regulatory Commission (LASWARCO) has sealed the factories belonging to Coca-Cola Hellenic Bottling Company, FrieslandCampina WAM [...]
Akintoye Akindele, Atlantic International Refinery boss arraigned again over $35m fraud
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Monday, December 24, arraigned a businessman, Akindele Akintoye, before Justice Emeka Nwite of [...]
Court upholds conviction of business man, Kolawole Adedayo Erinle over $1.4m fraud
A three-man panel of the Court of Appeal, in Lagos state, have upheld the conviction and 12-year prison sentence of businessman Kolawole Adedayo Erinl [...]
Stampede incidents reflect Nigeria’s systemic failures – Peter Obi
Peter Obi, presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in the 2023 elections, has condemned the recent stampedes that claimed lives across the [...]