A Director with the Security and Exchange Commission (SEC), Abdulkadir Abbas, on Friday, told a Federal High Court, Abuja how Binance Holdings Ltd breached the Nigerian law to operate naira peer-to-peer services in exchange of crypto assets. Abbas, the Director of Registration, Exchanges and Market Infrastructure Department at...
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The Nigerian Communications Commission has cautioned Nigerians not to patronise pre-registered Sim cards as act could attract severe consequences. The Commission sounded the warning on a statement posted on its platform on Friday. It noted that the use of pre-registered SIM cards could not only compromises the accuracy of...
A Jimeta Chief Magistrates’ Court in Yola, on Friday ordered the remand of a 37-year old teacher, Adamu Ayuba in a correctional facility for allegedly defiling a seven-year-old girl in school. The police charged Ayuba of Rawani of Jambutu, Yola, with defilement contrary to section 211 of penal...
By CHRISTIANA LOT, Jos – The Pharmacy Council of Nigeria (PCN) has closed down 501 medicine shops in Plateau State for various violations, including selling medicines in open drug markets and operating without registration. Other offenses also included non-renewal of certificates, non-pharmacists dispensing controlled medicines,...
The Chief of the Air Staff (CAS), Air Marshal Hasan Abubakar, has said the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) is committed to flushing out terrorists, bandits and other criminals from all parts of Nigeria. Abubakar said this while addressing newsmen during the Juma’at Prayer in commemoration of the NAF...
The Chairman Senate Committee on Local Content, Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, on Thursday, met with the Director General, Small and Medium Enterprises Development Agency of Nigeria (SMEDAN), Charles Odii, to encourage the growth of local factories and the manufacturing of made-in-Nigeria products. The meeting, also attended by Senator Ede...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arrested 17 suspected internet fraudsters in Abuja. The commission in a post on its X handle on Friday, said the suspects were arrested in the early hours of Thursday, May 16, 2024, at City...
The Police Command in Kano State on Friday confirmed the death of 15 persons in the mosque attack in Gadan village in Gezawa Local Government Area of the state. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that a man on Wednesday allegedly sprayed the mosque with petrol, locked...
By CHRISTIANA LOT, Jos – A human rights activist, polio survivor and Executive Director of the Beautiful Gate Handicapped People’s Center in Jos, Chief Ayuba Burki Gufwan, has urged Nigerian lawmakers to revise the country’s tax laws in order to facilitate charitable donations. Speaking on the Nigerian Television...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) and the Colleges of Education Academic Staff Union (COEASU) have opposed the growing trend of converting public colleges of education to universities. They described the development as disturbing, considering the important role colleges of education play in...
Diamond Stripes Limited which used its Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV)- Pragmatic Palm Limited to sign a deal with the Enugu State Government to revive the moribund United Palm Produce Limited (UPPL) has denied any Fraud in the consummation of partnership. Managing Director of the Company, Professor George Nwangwu,...
A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Friday dismissed a bail application filed by the detained Binance executive, Tigran Gambaryan. Justice Emeka Nwite, in a ruling, held that based on the affidavit evidence before him, Gambaryan would jump bail if the application is granted. “I have carefully considered the...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has said the 27 lawmakers at the Rivers State House of Assembly who defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC) has lost their seats forever. The party said this in a statement issued by its National Publicity Secretary, Mr Debo Ologunagba in Abuja....
The Russian military on Friday intercepted over 100 Ukrainian drones overnight, the Russian Defence Ministry said in a statement. The ministry said that the air defence system and the Black Sea fleet intercepted 51 drones over Crimea and 44 over the Krasnodar Territory. It also intercepted six over...
The Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) has filed an amended four-count charge against Binance Holdings Limited and its executive, Tigran Gambaryan, on alleged tax evasion. FIRS lawyer, Moses Ideho, made this known on Friday before Justice Emeka Nwite of a Federal High Court, Abuja. Ideho informed the court...
Governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) for the September 21, 2024 election in Edo State, Senator Monday Okpebholo, has congratulated the Benin Monarch, Oba Ewuare ll on the return of 39 stolen artefacts from Sweden. Okpebholo, in a statement on Friday morning, recalled that the artefacts...
Chairman, All Progressives Congress (APC), Dr Abdullahi Ganduje, has said the reforms introduced by the President Bola Tinubu-led administration will take Nigeria to the next level of development. Ganduje said this on Friday in Abuja when the party’s Forum of Local Government Area Chairmen visited the National Working...
Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) has confirmed the death of seven persons in a road accident that occurred on Ibadan-Iseyin road on Thursday. The Public Relations Officer, FRSC, Oyo Sector Command, Mr Mayowa Odewo, said in a statement that the deceased were five male adults, one female adult...
By CHRISTIANA LOT, Jos – Plateau State Chapter of the Nigerian Union of Journalists (NUJ) Correspondents’ Chapel recently organized a memorial and prayer session to honor eight journalists who tragically lost their lives in a motor accident on May 16, 2007. The event, which marked the 17th anniversary...
A team from the Presidential initiative on Compressed Natural Gas (P-CNG), on Thursday assessed the capacity of major manufacturing partners in the federal government’s effort to boost the use of CNG automobiles and electric vehicles. Speaking during media tour of Mikano car assembly plant in Ogun state, the programme...