President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday February 25, met the newly appointed chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Abdulrasheed Bawa. The President met Bawa at the state house in Abuja, barely a day after his nomination as head of the anti-graft agency, was confirmed by the senate.
Argentina’s public prosecutor’s office will convene a medical board on March 8 to decide whether the late football legend Diego Maradona was given proper treatment before his death, legal sources said on Tuesday, February 23. The Argetine football legend died of a heart attack on November 25, weeks after undergoing brain surgery on a…
President Buhari has said that his administration’s plan to lift 100 million Nigerians out of poverty did not come by accident or something they just ”bumped into,” but is a deliberate one that will be pursued with remarkable grit and determination. Speaking on Tuesday February 23 at a meeting with the Presidential Economic Advisory…
Many persons have reportedly been killed after Boko Haram members attacked Maiduguri, the Borno state capital this evening February 23. HumAngle reports that the sect members stormed the Kaleria area close to the University of Maiduguri, firing multiple rockets and killing dozens of persons. Many persons are said to have sustained serious injuries from…
The Central Bank of Nigeria is maintaining its stand on the ban on Cryptocurrency. The governor of the apex bank, Godwin Emefiele, who appeared before the Senate Joint Committee on Banking, Insurance, and other financial institutions on Tuesday, February 23, said that money laundering, terrorism financing, and other criminal activities were being carried out…
Mohammed Dikko Umar, a former Chief of Air staff has been acquitted of six out of seven fraud charges filed against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). Umar was first arraigned in 2016 afer the anti-graft agency accused him of being involved in money laundering and procurement fraud to the tune of about N9.7 billion,…
A man has been sent to prison over failure to produce the suspect he stood for as surety. Mr. Gajah Omayulele Lovely was arraigned before Justice G. O. Imadegbelo of the Edo State High Court sitting in Benin City on Tuesday, February 23. According to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Mr.Lovely…
Former US President, Donald Trump has wished golfing legend, Tiger Woods a quick recovery after he experienced a tragic car accident on Tuesday Feb 23. Woods’ crash occurred shortly before 7:15 a.m. about 20 miles (32 kilometers) south of downtown Los Angeles, on the border of the upscale communities of Rolling Hills Estates and Rancho…
The Nigeria Center for Disease Control NCDChas said that 571 new cases of #COVID19 were recorded in Nigeria on Tuesday, February 23. According to agency, Lagos recorded 170 fresh cases. Other states with new cases include Ogun-65, FCT-45, Kwara-34, Abia-32, Enugu-32, Kano-25, Oyo-22, Ondo-21, Rivers-19, Kaduna-19, Benue-18, Bayelsa-12, Kebbi-12, Nasarawa-11, Akwa Ibom-9, Delta-8, Ekiti-6,…
Kaduna state Governor Nasir El Rufai has said that Nigeria has the highest number of poor people among the countries of the world. Governor El-Rufai stated this while launching the State Social Protection Policy on Tuesday, February 23. In his words “Nigeria is going through trying times. We have the largest number of…
