•Nadeem Anjarwalla The Federal High Court in Abuja, has fixed May 17 to rule on an application by the federal government through the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), seeking to serve by substituted means the charge against a top executive of Binance Holdings Limited, Nadeem Anjarwalla, who fled from custody while awaiting trial. Moses Id...
•Abdullahi Ganduje The Kano State Government has filed criminal charges against the immediate past governor, Abdullahi Ganduje, over alleged $413,000, N1.38 billion bribery. The state said it had assembled 15 witnesses to testify against Ganduje, reports The PUNCH. Joined as co-defendants in the charge sheet dated April 3, 2024, sighted by our...
•Binance chief and EFCC operative in court yesterday The scheduled arraignment of Binance Holdings Limited and two of its executives for alleged tax evasion was stalled yesterday over a complaint that one of the executives had not been served with the charge sheet. Counsel for the Federal Inland Revenue Service, which is prosecuting the case, ...
•Pregnant woman A US woman who faced a charge of abusing a corpse after she suffered a miscarriage will not be criminally indicted, a grand jury decided yesterday, US media reported. The unusual case, which sparked an outcry amid a nationwide row over abortion rights, began when Brittany Watts, 34, had a miscarriage at home […]
The Central Bank of Nigeria has directed all banks, other financial institutions, and non-bank financial institutions, to suspend the processing charges previously imposed on large cash deposits. This change, referenced under the “Guide to Charges by Banks, Other Financial Institutions, and Non-Bank Financial Institutions” dated December 20, 2...
The management of University of Calabar, UNICAL, has suspended the new charges and levies it announced earlier, till further notice. This is coming on the heels of the peaceful protest by students of the institution today over the decision of management to increase their tuition fees and other levies. In a statement signed by the […]