By Emma Ujah, Abuja Bureau Chief The Nigeria Revenue Service (NRS) has clarified that there was no fresh imposition of Value-Added Tax (VAT) on banking services. In a statement yesterday, the NRS said VAT has always applied to banking services and […]
By Elizabeth Adegbesan The number of unsentenced inmates in Nigeria correctional centers rose by 12.9 percent to 53,790 in over nine years (2017-Q2’25 ( second quarter of 2025). The National Bureau of Statistics, NBS, disclosed this in its Nigeria Correctional […]
By James Ogunnaike Abeokuta—An Ogun State High Court, sitting in Ota, Ado-Odo/Ota Local Government Area, has denied bail to controversial singer, Habeeb Okikiola, popularly known as Portable, following his arraignment on multiple criminal charges. Portable was arraigned on a nine-count […]
The management of Nestoil Limited and Neconde Energy Limited yesterday rejected what they described as false and misleading narratives circulating in sections of the print and online media over ongoing legal disputes with a consortium of lenders, insisting that no […]
By Ayorinde Oluokun/Abuja An investigator with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Dr. Michael Adariku has narrated how money were disbursed from the account of the Office of National Security Adviser, ONSA under the leadership of Colonel Sambo Dasuki […]
By Ikechukwu Nnochiri ABUJA— Two survivors of the terrorists’ attack that killed 40 members of St. Francis’ Catholic Church in Owo, Ondo State, in 2022, yesterday, testified before a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja. In their separate testimonies, the […]
A Federal High Court in Abuja yesterday returned the case file on the alleged $9.7 million terrorism financing case involving the Bauchi State Commissioner for Finance, Yakubu Adamu, and three others to the Chief Judge (CJ) for reassignment to a substantive judge. […]
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) chairman Ola Olukoyede has faulted the persecution claim by the immediate-past Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mallam Abubakar Malami (SAN). He described it as unfortunate that some Nigerians were buying into the narrative when […]
The Nigerian Society of Anaesthetists (NSA) has urged the Lagos State Government to include its members in the ongoing probe into alleged medical negligence linked to the death of the infant son of celebrated writer, Chimamanda Adichie. The call was […]
A Magistrate Court in Abakaliki, Ebonyi State, on Monday ordered the remand of a social media critic, Polycap Obinna Alegu, over allegations of defamation and cyberbullying against the Secretary to the State Government, Prof. Grace Umezurike. Alegu, 36, was arraigned […]