DUBAI ports giant DP World and Britain’s development finance agency CDC Group on Tuesday committed to jointly investing $1.7bn on infrastructure in Africa over the next several years. The investments in ports, container depots, business parks and other logistics infrastructure…
THE Public Complaints Commission has called on the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, to evolve more drastic strategies in tackling the menace of ponzi scheme operators across the country. This clarion call was made on Tuesday, October 12, 2021…
WITH the present level of Nigeria’s external debt, every Nigerian citizen in the country is currently indebted to the tune of $157 or N64,684. This trend, according to a development economist, Dr. Tayo Bello, is worrisome as the borrowing rate…
POPULAR Nigerian dancer, Usiwo Orezimena Jane, better known as Janemena, has dragged Nollywood actress Tonto Dikeh before the Inspector-General of Police. Janemena, in a petition written on her behalf by her solicitors, Rockson Igelige, of Felix, Igelige & Associates, accused…
PROTOCOLS On behalf of the supervising Minister, the Honourable Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Mr. Festus Keyamo, SAN, the Chairman Governing Council, Chief Frank Ovie Kokori, Governing Council members, Management and entire staff of the Michael Imoudu National…
THE Kaduna Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, today October 11, 2021 secured the conviction and sentencing of one Yakubu .M. Abbas before Justice Darius Khobo of the Kaduna State High Court, Kaduna on one count amended charge…
PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari has proposed to spend N2,490,658,599 on state house clinic, salary, sewage, electricity charges and internet access in 2022. A breakdown of the aforementioned budget shows that the chunk of it, N1,346,707,871 goes to salary payment. State house…
The late sage, Chief Obafemi Awolowo once described journalists as the floatsam and jetsam of society when he was asked about his experience as a journalist with The Nigerian Worker long before his famous 1944 sojourn to the UK to…
IN Nigeria, a country heavily reliant on revenues from its oil exports, entrepreneur Ifedolapo Runsewe has identified another type of black gold: used car tyres. She has set up Freetown Waste Management Recycle, an industrial plant dedicated to transforming old…
THE Abuja Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, have arrested ten suspected internet fraudsters. The suspects: Victor Onyemachi, Okolo Abdulganiyu, Williams Ebenezer, Victor Ejike, Ojonugwa V. Adama, Ejeh Michael, Bala Ogecha Sadiq, Ejaigu Obokohwo, Azubike Joel and Ejaigu Tobore Donald were apprehended in the Kubwa…
