STUDENT LOAN SCAM: NELFUND VOWS LEGAL ACTION AGAINST DECEITFUL SCHOOLS
The Nigerian Education Loan Fund (NELFUND) has threatened legal action against institutions found to be engaging in deceptive practices within the student loan scheme. The...
SUIT TO REMOVE RIVERS’ SOLE ADMINISTRATOR SUFFERS SETBACK
A suit filed by an Abuja-based lawyer, Mr Johnmary Jideobi, seeking the sack of the recently appointed Sole Administrator of Rivers, Vice Admiral Ibok-Ete Ibas...
EEDRIS ABDULKAREEM SLAMS NBC OVER BAN OF NEW SONG FROM RADIO, TV
The National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) has barred radio and television stations from airing Eedris Abdulkareem’s trending song “Tell Your Papa.” In a memo issued by...
TWO NIGERIANS NABBED AS INDIAN POLICE BUST INTERNATIONAL DRUG SYNDICATE
Two Nigerians, Ugwu Ikechukwu (alias Emma) and Chukwu Ogbonna (alias Big Joe) are among the transnational drug trafficking and money laundering syndicate arrested in Hyderabad,...
EX-KWARA GOV DIVERTED SUBEB LOAN TO PAY SALARIES — EFCC WITNESS
A former Chairman of the Kwara State Universal Basic Education Board, Alhaji Lanre Daibu, on Thursday told a Kwara State High Court that a N1bn...
COURT THROWS OUT CHINESE SUSPECTS’ N5bn SUIT AGAINST EFCC
Justice James Omotosho of the Federal High Court in Abuja has dismissed a ₦5 billion lawsuit filed by 110 alleged internet fraudsters against the Economic...
MOB KILLS MAN OVER ALLEGED DOG THEFT IN BAUCHI, POLICE LAUNCH PROBE
The Bauchi State Police Command has vowed to leave no “stone unturned” in its investigation into a case of jungle justice that resulted in the...
‘JAPA’: YOUTHS NEED CAPITAL, NOT N10,000 FREEBIES – AFDB’S ADESINA
The President of the African Development Bank (AfDB), Akinwumi Adesina, says Africa’s youth bulge is a demographic asset that has to become an economic asset...
NERC FINES EIGHT DISCOS N628M FOR ‘CRAZY BILLING’
The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) has fined Abuja, Eko, Enugu, Ikeja, Jos, Kaduna, Kano, and Yola Electricity Distribution Companies the sum of N628.03 million...
EX-KWARA GOVERNOR USED SUBEB LOAN TO PAY SALARIES – EFCC WITNESS
Alhaji Lanre Daibu, a former chairman of the Kwara State Universal Basic Education Board, testified before a Kwara State High Court on Thursday that the...