Chuks Egbede

As part of ongoing efforts at ensuring that commercial banks comply with the Central Bank of Nigeria’s directive on the distribution of the redesigned naira notes, operatives of the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission last week Friday, discovered the sum of N258 million stashed in the vault at the head office of

The redeployment of former Force spokesperson, Frank Mba and his colleague, Idowu Owohunwa as Commissioners of Police, Ogun and Lagos Commands respectively, is pending the approval of the Police Service Commission, The PUNCH reports. This was as the Inspector-General of Police, Usman Baba, on Tuesday ordered the posting and redeployment of Deputy Inspectors-General of Police,

The Lagos State Governor, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has sympathised with the deputy governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, in Lagos, Funke Akindele, over the death of her mother, Dr Adebanjo-Akindele. Sanwo-Olu, in a statement issued by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr Gboyega Akosile, on Tuesday, said it is difficult to find the right words

The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), has described the First Republic Minister of Aviation, Mbazulike Amechi, as a patriot whose lifestyle deserved emulation by leaders in Nigeria. Speaking at the Day of Tribute to honour the late Amaechi at the Shehu Yar’adua Centre, on Tuesday in Abuja, President Buhari, pointed out that the elder

The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), has described the First Republic Minister of Aviation, Mbazulike Amaechi, as a patriot whose lifestyle is deserved emulation by leaders in Nigeria. Speaking at the Day of Tribute to honour the late Amaechi at the Shehu Yar’adua Centre, on Tuesday in Abuja, President Buhari, pointed out that the

A former lawmaker, Senator Shehu Sani, has adopted a two-week-old baby, reportedly abandoned on the street of Nasarawa State. The baby was said to have been picked up by a police patrol team, who proceeded to a social welfare centre. The senator, who represented Kaduna Central senatorial district in the 8th Assembly, on Tuesday, paid

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo on Tuesday in Abuja, urged Nigerians to regulate, discipline and hold their next set of leaders accountable at the ballot come February 25 and March 11. “It is through the instrumentality of the ballot, that citizens regulate and discipline their leaders and hold them accountable,” Osinbajo said at the National Delegates’

The Civil Societies Directorate, an arm of Tinubu-Shettima Presidential Campaign Council, on Tuesday commenced its mobilisation drive to garner votes for the party flag bearer, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu. The electioneering campaign is coming one month after the former Director of PCC Civil Societies, Naja’atu Mohammed, announced her resignation from the council. The activist, who later

Video Conferencing app, Zoom, has announced plans to cut about 1,300 staff members, from the company’s total workforce. In a release published on Tuesday by Zoom’s Chief Executive Officer, Eric Yuan, it was stated that the move had become necessary due to the “uncertainty of the global economy” and its effects on the company’s customers.

The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), on Tuesday, said his regime’s electoral, pension, tax and monetary policy reforms had received high commendations from African policy experts. This was as he called on African Union member states to imbibe the culture of peer review and peer-to-peer learning for proactive and strong leadership on the continent.