CORRUPTION The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has continued its insistent interrogation of the former chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), Babatunde Fowler, over alleged multiple frauds while in office. Fowler, who reportedly arrived at the Lagos State office of the anti-graft agency on Monday, is still being grilled over alleged corruption Read more
By AFP US biotech firm Moderna on Monday announced its experimental vaccine against Covid-19 was 94.5 per cent effective, marking a second major breakthrough in the vaccine hunt. Moderna released early results from a clinical trial with more than 30,000 participants, after US pharmaceutical company Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech last week said their Read more
In less than two months, Libya has managed to go from producing just a fraction of its usual volume to more than 1 million bpd. By NJ Ayuk If I called 2020 a terrible year for the oil industry, no one would take exception. Demand collapsed in the spring, during the first wave of the Read more
One of the #EndSARS protesters, Kamsiyochukwu Perpetual, has disclosed that she saw many dead bodies, including one with a bullet-torn head, after the alleged shootings at #EndSARS protesters by soldiers at the Lekki tollgate on 20 October 2020. She claimed in a petition she submitted to the Lagos State Panel of Judicial Inquiry probing the Read more
The CCB had in July prepared charges against Magu for allegedly turning down the demand to declare his assets Suspended acting chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu, will not appear before the Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB) on Tuesday, according to TheCable. Magu had been summoned by the Bureau to Read more
HEALTH Of the over 65,000 total, about 61, 073 persons have been discharged from hospitals, after treatment Nigeria, on Sunday, recorded 152 new cases of coronavirus bringing the total of infected persons in the country to 65,000. This is according to an update by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC). This new infection cases Read more
POLITICS Despite APC claims, authorities of the University of Ibadan (UI) confirmed that Obaseki was a product of the institution A Federal High Court, Abuja, will today commence the hearing in the certificate forgery suit instituted against Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State by the opposition party in the state – the All Progressives Congress (APC). Read more
“As our nation returns to the drawing board in the wake of the #EndSARS protests, I have observed with keen interest the policy actions and positions taken by national and subnational governments…” Pastor Tunde Bakare has raised alarm over the freezing of accounts of some notable #EndSARS protesters, warning the federal government that such decision Read more
FOREIGN President Donald Trump of the United States on Sunday insisted he is not conceding the presidential election despite accepting defeat by Democrat’s Joe Biden. Trump, had for the first time acknowledged that Biden won but swiftly added that the election was rigged. “He won because the Election was Rigged. NO VOTE WATCHERS OR OBSERVERS allowed,” he Read more
A group of Prominent Indigenes of Lagos has called on the state government to stop all taxes illegally collected by the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) on Lagos roads. The state prominent indigenes pointed out that the taxes being collected by the transport union can be used by local councils for maintenance of Read more
