For the 11th year in a row, the President/CEO of Dangote Industries Limited, Aliko Dangote, has topped the 2022 list of Africa’s richest persons, Forbes magazine said in a report. Dangote’s wealth jumped from $12.1 billion last year to an estimated $13.9 billion. Forbes attributed the growth to a 30% increase in the stock price […]
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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission(EFCC) has re-arraigned a former minister of aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode, on a 17-count charge of fraud. Fani-Kayode was re-arraigned on Monday alongside Nenadi Usman, former minister of state for finance; Danjuma Yusuf, a former national chairman of the Association of Local Government of Nigeria (ALGON) and a company, Joint-Trust Dimensions […]
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Transparency International, Tl has made available the 2021 corruption perception index globally, which placed Nigeria 154 out of 180 countries studied methodologically. The results as released by the Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre, CISLAC, TI’s representative in Nigeria, on Tuesday, in Abuja, revealed that Nigeria scored 24 out of 100 points in the 2021 CPI, […]
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The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has threatened to go on a nationwide industrial action if the government goes ahead to implement an increase in the price of Premium Motor Spirit. NLC restated It’s position in a petition to the Governors of the 36 states ahead of the planned nationwide protest scheduled for Thursday. The petition, […]
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Nigeria’s Federal Government has postponed the planned removal of subsidy on petroleum products till further notice. Minister of Finance, Budget and Economic Planning, Hajia Zainab Ahmed, announced the development at a meeting held on Monday at the National Assembly. The meeting was convened at the instance of the President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan. It […]
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The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board on Monday revealed that the registration for the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME and the Direct Entry DE, examinations will commence by February 12, 2022. The Board made this known in its weekly bulletin released by the Director of Public Relations, Dr Fabian Benjamin. In the timeline of events […]
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The Abuja Federal high court, on Monday issued an arrest warrant against the former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke, believed to be residing in the UK. Justice Bolaji Olajuwon granted the request after counsel to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Farouk Abdullah, made an oral application. The anti-graft agency said its investigations […]
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Angry mob on Monday burned down ‘Noble Kids Comprehensive College’, the school in which the kidnappers of the five-year-old Hanifa Abubakar buried her body in Kano State. Spokesperson of the Kano Police Command, Abdullahi Kiyawa, who confirmed the development, said some youths within the community set fire to the school on Monday morning. Kiyawa further […]
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Nigerian politician and elder statesman, Tanko Yakasai, has said it will be unjust for Northern Nigeria to still demand the presidency in 2023 in spite of the agitations for power shift to the South at the end of President Muhammadu Buhari’s tenure. Kokomansion understands that there have been heated debates among stakeholders in the nation’s […]
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About 112 illegal refineries have been uncovered in Ikwerre Local Government Area of Rivers State. Chairman of the council, Samuel Nwanosike, who spoke to Channels Television said that 99 percent of the discoveries were made in a particular community located along the OML 17 trunk lines. The development comes on the heels of the recent […]
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