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Evidence of tax payment will be a condition for operating a bank account from January, according to the Financial bill passed by the National Assembly. The Bill, submitted to the lawmakers with Budget 2020 by President Muhammadu Buhari, is designed to improve financial operations of the country and streamline the tax regime. It is expected […]

Hanan Buhari, one of the daughters of President Muhammadu Buhari, has graduated with a first-class degree from a university abroad. Her proud mother took to Instagram to share the good news. Read below:

Personnel of the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department of the Lagos State Police Command have arrested four suspects, including two pastors, for allegedly staging fake miracles to defraud unsuspecting members of the public in the Lekki and Epe areas of the state. The alleged pastors, Favour David and Favour Chimobi, were said to have […]

The anti-graft agency, EFCC, has released the mail below announcing the arrest of a former local government lawmaker for car theft. Wilson Uwujaren, the EFCC spokesperson, said Samuel Adeojo is a member of a syndicate “notorious for stealing vehicles from car dealers through pretense as genuine buyers.” Read Mr Uwujaren’s full statement below. A former […]

A lawyer, Femi Falana, on Sunday said the federal government has applied to the Federal High Court in Abuja for an order of transfer the publisher of Sahara Reporters, Omoyele Sowore, and his co-accused, Olawale Bakare, from the custody of the State Security Service (SSS) to prison. Messrs Sowore and Bakare have been in the […]

President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday in Daura, Katsina State, said Nigeria’s socio-economic and political salvation will come from education, urging citizens to embrace learning as a way of life while the government will do its best to provide access. According to a statement by Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, […]

Lionel Messi clinched his sixth Ballon d’Or award on Monday after yet another scintillating season for the Argentine. The 32-year-old saw off competition from the likes of Juventus forward Cristiano Ronaldo and Liverpool defender Virgil van Dijk to win the prestigious accolade, which is voted for by journalists. Messi won the award for the first […]

The National Universities Commission has said it has uncovered about 100 fake professors across Nigerian universities. The NUC Executive Secretary, Prof Abubakar Rasheed, stated this in the November edition of the commission’s bulletin, obtained by Punch correspondent. The ES noted that the commission published the details of the fake professors on its website and also […]

Femi Falana, a human rights lawyer, has accused the federal government of disobeying valid court orders in Nigeria while it complies with orders from Britain. Granting a stay of execution for a $9.6 billion judgement awarded against Nigeria in favour of Process & Industrial Development (P&ID) Limited, Christopher Butcher, judge of a commercial court in […]

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has seized the passport of Allen Onyema, chief executive officer of Air Peace, over alleged bank fraud and money laundering in the US. The Nation reports that Onyema’s passports will be in custody of the anti-graft commission as investigations continue and his movements, temporarily restricted. In November, US authorities had […]

Nine people are dead after a plane crashed shortly after takeoff Saturday in Chamberlain, South Dakota, authorities said. Among the nine dead are two children and the pilot, Brule County States Attorney Theresa Maule Rossow said in a statement. There were 12 people on the plane. The three survivors were taken to Sioux Falls for […]

Governor Nasir el-Rufai of Kaduna State said on Sunday he never prevented the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission from performing its functions as widely reported; rather he  went to court to clear his name. In a statement by El-Rufai’s counsel, A.U. Mustapha (SAN), the governor of Kaduna State said he approached the court in 2009 […]

The Nigerian Governors’ Forum (NGF) says state governors are not the sole target of a comment by First Lady Aisha Buhari that things are ‘getting out of hand’ in the country without the governments doing much about it. Mrs Buhari, who has criticised various government organs in the past, took a swipe at the governors, […]

The biggest challenge to Nigeria is “…from the mindsets and entities rooted in the idea of violence as a means to change,” a presidential aide has said. Garba Shehu, spokesperson to President Muhammad Buhari, said this in a statement Sunday night. Mr Shehu said he was reacting to a statement by a former military chief, […]

The wife of the president, Mrs Aisha Buhari has called for the regulation of social media, noting that China with about 1.3bn people had done so, stressing that many people could not visit their villages on account of fake news broadcasts. Mrs Buhari spoke on Friday at the Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA) […]

People in China are now required to have their faces scanned when registering new mobile phone services, as the authorities seek to verify the identities of the country’s hundreds of millions of internet users. The regulation, announced in September, was due to come into effect Sunday. The government says it wants to “protect the legitimate […]