For a country eager to position itself as Africa’s gateway for business, tourism and investment, Nigeria’s electronic visa platform was meant to symbolise efficiency – a streamlined, modern sysÂtem that would make visiting the counÂtry faster and easier. Instead, a growing chorus of interÂnational travellers says the system has become a source...
Indications emerged today that Deposit Money Banks (DMBs) and telecom operators may have formally commenced charge deductions on the use of Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD) directly from customers’ airtime instead of their bank accounts. It was earlier reported on April 16 about the possibility of telecom subscribers paying for t...
•VeryDarkMan The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has secured a court order to remand social media activist, Martins Otse, popularly known as VeryDarkMan (VDM), pending the conclusion of an investigation into alleged cybercrime offences. VDM was arrested last Friday at a bank branch in the Wuse area of Abuja by a combined team o...
•Binance chief, Tigran Gambaryan The federal government has dropped all charges against an executive at Binance Holdings, Tigran Gambaryan on health grounds. Gambaryan has been facing money laundering trial from detention since April, reports Channels TV. A Counsel for the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), announced the withdraw...
•Babalola, Ooni and Farotimi The founder and chancellor of Afe Babalola University, Ado-Ekiti (ABUAD), Aare Afe Babalola has dropped all criminal charges against human rights lawyer, Dele Farotimi following the intervention of Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi. Babalola who stated this yesterday, said the Ooni and other prominent traditional r...
•Pelumi Olajengbesi Human rights lawyer, Pelumi Olajengbesi, has written to the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Lateef Fagbemi, over the ordeal of 10 #EndBadGovernance protesters who are facing treasonable charges levelled against them by the federal government. In his letter received by the AGF Office yesterday, Ol...
•Hunger protesters in court today A wave of public outrage has erupted following the Federal High Court in Abuja’s decision to remand protesters from the recent #EndBadGovernance demonstrations, accusing them of treason and terrorism. The court, presided over by Justice Emeka Nwite, ruled that the protesters be held at the Kuje Correctional Ce...
•Immigration officers The Nigeria Immigration Service NIS has suspended one of its top personnel at the Murtala Muhammad International Airport MMIA, Lagos, Akomolafe Gbenga Michael, over multiple charges of alleged drug trafficking. Spokesman of the Service, DCI Kenneth Udo disclosed this in a statement issued today in Abuja. According to him,...
•Tobi Amusan 100m hurdles world record holder Tobi Amusan has been cleared to run in the Paris Olympics after the sport’s top court yesterday dismissed appeals against the decision to clear her of a doping offence. Amusan, 27, was charged in July 2023 with missing three anti-doping tests in a period of 12 months but […]
•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...
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