THE Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has grilled a former Kano Governor, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso. Naija News reports that the questioning was in connection with an alleged mismanagement of N10billion pension cash. Some individuals had accused Kwankwaso of using…
ON the tarmac at Uganda’s Entebbe International Airport on the shores of Lake Victoria, Chinese technicians and their Ugandan counterparts put final touches on the aprons as planes fly in and out. The 70-year-old airport, opened in 1951 by the…
By ABDULLAHI Rabiu, Kano LAST Week, specifically 30th of August 2021 will go down in history as one of the days Kano will never put behind and allow it to pass into the oblivion of history without any Intelectual review…
THE Olu of Warri, Ogiame Atuwatse III has donated N4B Naira to expedite the completion of the Koko-Ogheye road project in Warri North Local Government Area of Delta State. The Koko-Ogheye road contract was awarded to Levant Construction Company by…
IT was a day of pomp and pageantry when policy makers, diplomats and Legal Practitioners on the African continent converged on Niamey, Niger Republic. It was the annual conference of the voice of the legal profession on the continent, African…
THE Benin Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, on Wednesday October 13, 2021 arraigned the trio of Jessica Roselyn Edoleyi, Charles Endurance and Ayase Destiny before Justice S. M.Shuaibu of the Federal High Court sitting in Benin…
A 21 YEAR-OLD internet fraudster, Jatto Sheriff Umar, who posed as the founder of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, in order to defraud unsuspecting victims via online relationship, was on Wednesday, October 13, 2021 convicted and sentenced to prison for offences bordering…
BOTSWANAN judges on Tuesday postponed ruling on a case in which the government is seeking to overturn a 2019 ruling that decriminalised gay sex, saying the matter needed more research and debate. The case was initially brought by a university…
DESPITE widespread decline felt by most economies across the globe, private equity fundraising in Africa has already managed to reach $1.3bn for the first half of 2021, when including final and interim closes. Mirroring the gradual stabilisation of Africa’s macroeconomic…
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…
