. Plans afoot to invite Ex-SGF for interrogation over $6.23m cash stolen from CBN vaults. Manhunt ongoing for Mustapha’s alleged collaborator, prime suspect in SGF’s office, letter dispatched to Akume for information. Top CBN officials arrested, detained, make damning revelations, write confessional statements. ‘Emefiele endorsed payment of illegal withdrawal of $6.23m from CBN vaults’. Lemo,…
Pope Francis on Sunday kicked off global Christmas celebrations with a call for peace, as Israel’s war on Hamas and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine cast a shadow over one of the world’s favourite holidays. Children around the globe meanwhile tracked Santa, his reindeer and their present-laden sleigh with the help of www.noradsanta.org, a 3-D interactive…
Love, unity, peace, and tolerance were some of the common themes in the messages by Nigerian leaders across all levels as the country joins others for the Christmas celebrations amid a stuttering economy. President Bola Tinubu, who came to power at the helm of Africa’s largest economy in May, launched an ambitious reform agenda to…
A mammoth crowd on Sunday welcomed Governor Abba Yusuf of Kano State back to the North-West state. Governor Yusuf had been away from the state amid the legal tussle over his position. The Court of Appeal sacked him as the Kano leader and declared the All Progressives Congress (APC)’s Nasiru Gawuna as the winner of…
he naira, today, Friday, depreciated to N885.88 per dollar in the official Nigerian Foreign Exchange Market, NAFEM. Data from FMDQ showed that the indicative exchange rate for NAFEM rose to N885.88 per dollar from N861.91 per dollar on Thursday. This indicates a N23.97 depreciation for the naira. The intraday high stood at N1,248 per dollar…
The top court in the United States has declined to rule on whether former President Donald Trump can claim immunity for his efforts to overturn the 2020 election, rejecting efforts by prosecutors to expedite review of the question. The Supreme Court rebuffed the request from US Special Counsel Jack Smith on Friday, kicking it back…
US President Joe Biden has pardoned thousands of people convicted of use and simple possession of marijuana on federal lands and in the District of Columbia, says the White House. Friday’s action, Biden’s latest in executive clemencies meant to rectify racial disparities in the justice system, broadened the criminal offences covered by the pardon.Biden has…
“It is a situation where pretty much everybody in Gaza is hungry one in every four people is starving in Gaza as we speak,’’ explained Arif Husain. The World Food Program chief economist warned that if the Israel-Hamas war continued at the same levels and food deliveries were not restored, the population of the Palestinian…
Christmas time is in the air. The lights in the streets and buildings around Nigeria’s economic capital are testimony to this. Twinkling Christmas Light Displays could be admired under Falomo Bridge, where portraits of the Chibok girls kidnapped by Boko Haram are painted or outside the Church of the Assumption in Lagos. However, the festive…
