Crime generates an estimated 2.1 trillion dollars in global annual proceeds and the problem may be growing, a senior U.N. official said on Monday. This is 3.6 per cent of the world's gross domestic product . "It makes the criminal business one...
Justice Adeniyi Onigbanjo of an Ikeja High Court, Lagos, has berated the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) over attempted arrest of Chief Robert Clarke (SAN), within the court premises. The officials of the commission had on April 16, har...
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) says subscribers will not pay for Mobile Number Portability (MNP) service scheduled to begin in September. A statement titled `Nigeria Mobile Number Portability - Business Rules and Port Order Processes&rsqu...
Transactions on the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) opened for the week on a positive note as market indices recorded further appreciation due to price gains by some blue chips. The All-Share Index, which opened at 21,756.50, appreciated by 0.10 per cent...
The National Identity Management Commission on Monday emphasised that the enrolment of all Nigerians into its data base will help to address security challenges in the country. Abdul-Hamid Umar, the Deputy Director, Corporate Communication, told the Ne...
Kano State Hisbah Command, on Sunday night arrested 80 alleged commercial sex workers at Kwanar Gafan village of Garun Malam Local Government Area of the state. Malam Musa Tanko, the Public Relations Officer of the command told the News Agency of Niger...
Finally some good news for Giuliana and Bill Rancic: they're expecting! The couple, who married in 2007, will be first-time parents this summer via a gestational surrogate who is carrying the couple's biological child. "We are so thrilled ...
Politicians on Monday said that for the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to conduct successful general elections in 2015, it should disengage some of its officials found to be corrupt. They made the call in separate interviews with the ...
Controversy is still trailing the Hon. Farouk Lawan-chaired House of Representatives Ad-Hoc Committee Report on fuel subsidy, as no fewer than 17 oil companies have faulted their indictment by the report. The oil firms have also threatened to file N100...
Kidnappers of the former Minister of Interior, Captain Emmauel Iheanacho and Mrs Rachael Nkwuorgu have demanded for a ransom payment of N20m for each of them. Meanwhile fresh facts have emerged on the circumstance that led to the kidnap of the former m...
The joint security patrol team in Kogi State has discovered another bomb making factory in the central axis of the state. The state director of the State Security Service,Mr. Mike Fubara, who disclosed this to newsmen in Lokoja,said the factory w...
Vice-President Namadi Sambo yesterday led a Presidential delegation to Ilorin, the Kwara State capital to commiserate with the Belgore family over the death of the wife of the former Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Alfa Belgore, Alhaja Fatimoh ...
A Non Governmental Organisation, Initiative for Mass Education Against Corruption, MEAC, yesterday said its investigations into the alleged corruption charges leveled against former Kogi State governor, Ibrahim Idris by Dino Melaye, an ex-lawmake...
Disturbed by the increasing rate of social vices occasioned by the consumption of Indian Hemp, the Ohom Orba Autonomous Community in Udenu Local Government Area of Enugu State has warned that henceforth, anybody caught with the hard drug wo...
The Trade Union Congress of Nigeria (TUC), has said that it will resist any attempt to kill the report submitted by the Farouk Lawan Committee on Fuel Subsidy Fund. Chairman of TUC in Rivers State, Comrade Hyginus Chika Onuegbu, who disclosed this in a...