FINANCIAL crimes offenders will not go unpunished under the present administration, the Federal Government said on Friday. The government insisted that offenders would pay the price for their crimes. The Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, in a statement signed by the Deputy Director in the interior ministry, Mr. Afonja Ajibola, said the resolve of the government to fight the two economic evils was not a mere pronouncement. He identified financial crimes militating against national economic development including money laundering and terrorism financing. He, therefore, pledged the unflinching commitment of the Federal Government to fighting the menace with all seriousness…
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US President Joe Biden has tested positive again for Covid-19 after consecutive days of testing negative for the virus. His physician Dr. Kevin O’Connor disclosed this in a memo shared by the White House. O’Connor said 79-year-old Biden is experiencing no new symptoms and “continues to feel quite well”. The doctor said the President will, however, “reinitiate strict isolation procedures”. Biden, in a tweet, said he was asymptomatic but would isolate “for the safety of everyone around me”. The President tweeted: “I’m still at work, and will be back on the road soon.” When he initially tested positive, the 79-year-old…
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said it will deploy over 200,000 Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) across the country for the 2023 general election. INEC’s National Commissioner in charge of Information and Voter Education, Mr Festus Okoye, who disclosed this in a statement yesterday, stated that the BVAS would be deployed in the 176,000 polling units across the country, while the excess would be kept as reserves. He said that the July 31 deadline for the Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) remained sacrosanct. “We will have one BVAS reserve in every Registration Area Centre (RAC) to ensure immediate intervention…
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) says Nigerians must avoid dealing with speculators in the foreign exchange (FX) market to save the naira from further decline. Osita Nwanisobi, director of the apex bank’s corporate communications, said this in a statement on Friday. The statement comes a few hours after some operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) raided Wuse Zone 4, Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, over allegations that some Bureaux De Change (BDC) operators are mopping up foreign currencies. According to reports, the invasion was a covert operation to “dislodge currency speculators who are alleged to be massively mopping up…
The family of Sarah Ajesi, a mother of three, knocked down by a vehicle learner along Irese Road, Akure, Ondo State capital, has cried for justice and prosecution of her killers. The deceased’s husband, Bolarinwa Ajesi, was equally seriously injured during the accident which occurred at about 4 pm on July 18. The family, through their lawyer, lbukun Fasanmi, said they are not pleased with the way the police were handling the case, adding that the family wanted justice and the matter not swept under the carpet. Fasanmi, in a petition to Ondo State Police Commissioner, Oyeyemi Oyediran, said the…
THE National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) has called for an increase in the wages of its members engaged by states and the Federal government. The association also gave the states and the Federal government two weeks to honour all agreements they had reached with the doctors, threatening its members would proceed on strike if this was not done. Besides, the NARD wants the Federal government to increase allocation to the health sector to 15 per cent of the national budget, which heads of governments in Africa agreed with in what is famously known as the 2001 Abuja Declaration. The…
The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has ruled out the possibility of extending the Continuous Voter’s Registration (CVR) expected to end today. The INEC National Commissioner, Voter Education and Publicity, Barr. Festus Okoye made this known in a chat with journalists in Awka, Anambra State capital, on Saturday. According to him, the exercise, scheduled to end today, July 31, 2022, would not be extended. He said the electoral body had in many ways intervened to ensure all intending voters are captured. He stated that the commission had in the last few weeks, extended registration centers to both churches and other…
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) in collaboration with the International Labour Organisation (ILO) has unveiled Trade Union Information Guide to provide necessary links to facilitate an easy return and reintegration of migrants and migrant workers. Unveiling the book in Abuja at the weekend, NLC president, Comrade Ayuba Wabba, noted that the worker-friendly guide would serve as a qualitative contribution to ensuring a comfortable and dignified return and a successful readmission and reintegration of returning migrants and migrant workers in Nigeria. Comrade Wabba said the congress had observed over time that several potential returnees find it difficult, frustrating and traumatic to…
The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) on Saturday received another batch of 140 Nigerians stranded from Agadas, Niger Republic. The NEMA Coordinator, Kano Territorial Office, Nuradeen Abdullahi, confirmed this while receiving the returnees in Kano. According to him, the returnees were brought back to Kano at about 9:38 p.m. in three luxury buses under the care of the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) from Agadas. Mr Abdullahi noted that the returnees were brought back through a voluntary repatriation programme for the distressed who had left the country to seek greener pastures in various European countries and could not afford to…
Some security experts and a civil society organisation have said the N4.85tn spent by the Buhari regime was gulped by corruption allegedly perpetrated by the ‘corrupt service chiefs’ and other officers. It was reported that the Federal Government has provided N4.85tn to the armed forces in the last eight years, through its yearly budgetary allocations. The budgetary allocations made by the Federal Government to the Army, Navy, and Air Force were mainly to cater for personnel and overheads, as well as recurrent and fixed expenditures. According to documents from the Budget Office of the Federation made available to one of…