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Lagos Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), has secured the interim forfeiture of property linked to a former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke, Donald Chidi Amangbo and Sequoyah Properties Limited. Acting Spokesperson of the commission, ...

SAHARA Energy Resources DMCC, Dubai, has extended a $600 million facility to help boost resurgent hope for peace in the world’s youngest democracy. The $600 million facility provided by Sahara Energy DMCC, a member of the leading energy and infrastructure ...

Vice Chancellor of Kaduna State University (KASU), Professor Muhammad Tanko, has argued that religious manipulation and bastardisation of cultural pluralism were responsible for crises and backwardness in Nigeria. He made this known, while speaking during a research dissemination conference on ...

The ongoing leadership tussle in the African Church may have taken an ethnic dimension, as the South-South leadership of the Church in the region has allegedly ordered bishops of South-West extraction to relocate to their states. An insider who spoke ...

Telecoms operators lose 342,101 subscribers in February The Federal Government has asked the African Development Bank (AfDB) to intervene in building the trans-Saharan optic fiber backbone/national broadband backbone and develop ground station for Nigeria Communication Satellite (NIGCOMSAT) and other critical ...

The Presidency yesterday explained operations of the Special Economic Zones (SEZ), which raised concerns at a recent public hearing in the Senate. Its clarification followed concerns that Federal Government’s plans to facilitate the country’s industrial development through SEZs, was being ...

The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) yesterday announced the death of one of its men, Corporal Meshach Iliya Komo, in a parachuting accident in Kaduna. Its Director of Public Relations and Information, Air Commodore, Ibikunle Daramola, in a statement in Abuja, ...

The African Union has endorsed the Buhari Unity Band, a not-for-profit initiative that articulates the president’s commitment to peace, unity and fight against corruption. In a letter presented to Dr. Abayomi Oyekoya, the body’s convener, in Abuja at the weekend, ...

A coalition of aviation workers’ unions has grounded operations of Caverton Helicopters in Lagos and Port Harcourt over alleged indebtedness to former workers and anti-labour activities. The picketing exercise, led by the National Union of Air Transport Employees (NUATE) and ...

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) yesterday dismissed what it called “reckless and groundless claim” by the All Progressives Congress (APC) that its standard-bearer, Atiku Abubakar, was a Camerounian as a calculated attempt to “trivialise and divert attention from the compelling ...