A court in east Zhejiang Province on Tuesday sentenced 17 people to prison for smuggling more than 23 tons of pangolin scales into the country from Nigeria. The scales, worth more than 180 million yuan (US$27.9 million), were smuggled by the gang from Nigeria in three batches in 2018 and 2019, according to the intermediate…
The management of the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission, NERC, has denied reports that there has been a 50 per cent increase in electricity tariff. NERC’s Head of Public Affairs, Micheal Faloseyi, denied the report in a statement released in Abuja today Tuesday, January 5. According to Faloseyi, rates for service bands have been adjusted by NGN2.00 to NGN4.00 per…
The Chairman of the Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19 and Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha, says 731 members of Batch B National Youths Service Corps (NYSC) have tested positive for COVID19. Mustapha disclosed this at the national briefing on COVID19 in Abuja on Tuesday, January 5. According to Mustapha, the PTF had conducted…
Secretary to the Government of Katsina state, Mustapha Inuwa, has said that no ransom was paid by the government to secure the release of students of Government Science Secondary School, Kankara abducted by suspected bandits on Friday December 11, 2020. Inuwa stated this while addressing journalists on the security challenges facing the state today January 5. In his…
Justice Lateefa A. Okunnu of the Lagos State High Court sitting in Ikeja, on Tuesday, January 5, 2021, convicted and sentenced Okey Nwosu, a former Managing Director, Finbank Plc, to three years imprisonment over 10m fraud. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, had arraigned Nwosu alongside Dayo Famuroti, Agnes Ebubedike and Danjuma Ocholi on…
Former attorney-general of the federation and minister of justice, Mohammed Bello Adoke has contracted Coronavirus. Adoke who told The Cable that he has gone to Dubai in United Arab Emirates for treatment, disclosed that he is asymptomatic. He said; “Two days to my return trip to Nigeria, I went for the mandatory COVID-19 test. A day to the…
Eric Jerome Dickey, who rose to prominence with his novels on Black love, relationships, and contemporary life, has reportedly died after battling a longtime illness. The author was 59-years-old. His death was first announced by his cousin, La Verne Madison Fuller before it was later confirmed by his publicist, Philip Lewis. According to Philip, Dickey passed…
K Osun State Police Command has paraded a pregnant woman, Musa Mariam for allegedly poisoning the 3-year-old son of her husband’s second wife to death. The incident happened in the Ede area of the state on December 26. Mariam was paraded alongside other crime suspects at the command headquarters in Osogbo by the State Commissioner of Police, CP…
The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffery Onyeama, says the Federal Government is currently in talks with China to have access to COVID19 vaccines for Nigeria. Onyeama made this disclosure while briefing newsmen shortly after a bilateral meeting with the Chinese Foreign Minister, Wang Yi, who was in Nigeria on a working visit. He said that…
Chelsea football club of England have posted a profit of £32.5 million ($44.4m) in their latest financial results. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the Blues saw their total turnover go down from the previous number of £446.7m ($610.6m) last year to £407.4m ($556.8m) this fiscal year ending June 30 2020. Most of the profit was…