•Santos FC Iconic Brazilian club Santos, cradle of late football legend Pele, were relegated to the second division Wednesday for the first time in their history, just shy of the first anniversary of his death. Santos suffered a 2-1 defeat at home to Fortaleza in their final league match of the season, sealing their fate […]
•Sanusi Former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, has called for a proper audit of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL), noting that this call was what cost him his job at the apex bank. Sanusi made this known while delivering his remarks at The Bank Directors Summit holding […]
Against the backdrop of more exits from ground operations in Nigeria by more multinational companies, Nigeria’s economy is expected to lose $335 million (about N310bn) in Foreign Direct Investments, FDI. The amount represents the combined asset value of the two latest exit announcements by Procter & Gamble, P&G, a major global player i...
•Kano State Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf A Federal High Court, sitting in Abuja, has granted a garnishee order freezing not fewer than 24 bank accounts belonging to the Kano State government, over N30 billion compensation to Incorporated Trustees of Masalachi Eid Shop Owners and Traders Association, for demolition of their shops in the state. Jus...
•Ambrose Alli University A medical student at the Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma, Benin State has expressed his dissatisfaction on X against an undertaking that could extend the duration of students’ time in school to over 12 years. •Ambrose Alli varsity Undertaking The 300-level medical student disclosed that they were given an undertaking t...
•CBN headquarters, Abuja Eight commercial banks have fallen short of the Capital Adequacy Ratio (CAR) required for international authorisation, the stress test conducted by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has shown. The affected banks have been put under pressure to raise their capital base to bridge the gap, which was brought about by the [...
Three officials of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) were injured when they repelled a gunfire attack at a forest in Edo State. NDLEA spokesman, Femi Babafemi, disclosed this in a statement today, saying armed hoodlums blocked all roads at Opuje community, in the Owan West Local Government Area (LGA) of Edo State to […]
•Law enforcement officers stand guard A Russian teenager today shot dead a classmate and injured five others before killing herself in a school in Bryansk near the Ukrainian border, investigators said. School shootings are relatively rare in Russia, which has strict gun laws, but have become more common in recent years, reports AFP. “A 14-year...
Global rights group, Amnesty International, has knocked the Nigerian military the accidental bombing that killed over 85 villagers and injured several others at Tudun Biri village in the Igabi Local Government Area of Kaduna State on Sunday. The rights group described as “unacceptable”, the “persistent unlawful killings of civilians” by milita...
The crisis rocking the Rivers State House of Assembly took a new twist yesterday as 27 lawmakers loyal to the Speaker, Martin Amaewhule, sat under tight security in the complex. The Rivers Assembly had become factionalised following an unsuccessful move to impeach Governor Siminialayi Fubara, reports The PUNCH. The Amaewhule-led lawmakers are ...
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