The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has warned the public against dealings with FinAfrica Investment Ltd and Poyoyo Investment. A circular by the management of SEC and published on the commission’s website said the activities of the companies were not registered by it. The commission described the business of...
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Frontline International Journalist, Tony Iyare has won the Lifetime Media Icons Award for “pacesetting contribution and growth of media industry in Nigeria”. He was named along with other outstanding Journalists – Ovation Publisher, Dele Momodu, Publisher, Africa Today, Kayode Soyinka and Ladi Ayodeji, managing director, BMG Promotions haven garnered...
Nollywood actor, Uche Maduagwu, has made a shocking claim about Ghanaian dancehall singer, Shatta Wale after he took a swipe at Nigerian artists. This comes following the claims made by Shatta Wale on how he does not need any Nigerian singer to sell out shows in his country. In...
France has ordered the closure of a mosque in the north of the country because of the radical nature of its imam’s preaching, regional authorities told AFP on Tuesday. The mosque in Beauvais, a town of 50,000 people some 100 kilometers (62 miles) north of Paris, will remain shut...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – All candidates, clients and other members of the public below the age of 18years are not required to produce any vaccination card before being allowed access to our facilities. In a statement by the board spokesman, Dr Fabian Benjamin, this category of persons are...
A lone gunman killed four people and wounded three more — including a police officer — on Monday after opening fire in multiple locations across Colorado before being shot dead, US police said. The incidents began at around 5 pm and unfolded across at least four different locations in...
Hundreds of thousands more people were confined to their homes in northern China Tuesday as the country battled its worst Covid surge in 21 months and locked-down residents took to social media to complain about food shortages. China — where the virus emerged two years ago — has followed...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The Ghanaian Police Force have warned religious leaders against negative utterances during New Year messages or they risk a jail term of seven years. “As the year 2021 draws to a close, the Ghana Police Service wishes to draw the attention of Ghanaians, especially...
Bollywood “bad boy” Salman Khan has revealed how he starred in his own real-life action drama when he was bitten by a snake and spent six hours in the hospital. Khan — who enjoys a cult-like status in star-obsessed India — said the serpent bit him twice when he...
A truth and reconciliation commission in The Gambia on Friday recommended that ex-leader Yahya Jammeh be brought before an international tribunal for crimes allegedly committed during his 22-year dictatorship. The commission recommended “prosecuting Yahya Jammeh and his co-perpetrators in an international tribunal” in West Africa outside of The Gambia,...
The Edo State Police Command says it is in search of a man said to have killed his 29-year-old girlfriend in Iguadolo community for suspected ritual. In a statement on Tuesday, the Police Public Relations Officer in the state, Kontongs Bello, identified the suspect as Osas and the victim...
PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – Over one hundred and eighty-eight support groups from the three Senatorial District of Cross River State has drummed support for Senator Gershom Bassey’s ambition to take over from Governor Ben Ayade in 2023. Speaking at the State Secretariat of the PDP in Calabar, where he...
By LEKAN AGBOOLA, Ilorin – The Secretary of the defunct National Democratic Coalition (NADECO), Chief Ayo Opadokun, has advised Nigerians not to dissipate energy on the Electoral Act but to focus on the need to have a system that works for all. Chief Opadokun, who said that the system...
About two months to the fourth-year anniversary of the abduction of Leah Sharibu by Boko Haram terrorists, her parents have expressed disappointment in the body language of the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), towards her freedom. Nathan and Rebecca Sharibu said they were tired of speaking, crying and...
The Police in Adamawa have denied an online report that Boko Haram insurgents and bandits have attacked the home town of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Mr Boss Mustapha. DSP Sulaiman Nguroje, Police Spokesman in state said there was no truth in the report that...
The Zamfara Chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Monday night elected a new executive council headed by Col. Bala Mande (Rtd.) Speaking at the end of the congress, the Deputy Governor, Mahadi Ali, expressed concern at the “way and manner“ PDP was been treated in the state...
By BARBARA KALU – The Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission (NUPRC) is set to close out the 2020 marginal field bid round programme and has put in place all necessary machinery to progress the bid round exercise to conclusion in line with the Petroleum Industry Act 2021 (PIA). The...
Actor Yul Edochie has reacted after Ghanaian dancehall star, Shatta Wale,took a swipe at Nigerian artistes. Yul was responding to Shatta Wale’s outburst on Sunday, where the rapper threw shades on Nigerian artistes after he had apparently sold out a Ghanaian stadium. The rapper stated: “They said I won’t...
Three persons have reportedly been killed on Sunday after gunmen suspected to be bandits invaded some communities under Gusau Local Government Area of Zamfara State. An unspecified number of villagers, mostly women, were said to have been kidnapped during the assault. Some of the villages said to have been...
The Federal Government hopes to push its public debt stock to N50.22tn by 2023, with domestic debt at N28.75tn and external debt at N21.47tn. This is according to the projections in the National Development Plan 2021-2025. The Debt Management Office had disclosed that Nigeria’s public debt was N38tn as...