THE Court of Appeal has set aside contempt proceedings initiated by the former Governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello, against the Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Olanipekun Olukoyede. In a unanimous judgement read by Justice Joseph Oyewole, he set aside the proceedings while overruling the Respondent’s preliminary …

U.S. President Joe Biden and Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskiy signed a 10-year bilateral security agreement on Thursday aimed at bolstering Ukraine’s defence against Russian invaders and getting Ukraine closer to NATO membership. The deal, signed on the sidelines of the G7 summit in Italy, aims to commit future U.S. administrations …

THE Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited announced on Thursday that it would hold the ground-breaking of three mini-Liquefied Natural Gas projects in August this year. NNPC’s Group Chief Executive Officer, Mele Kyari, announced this in Abuja at the inaugural Africa Gas Innovation Summit 2024 organised by the Society of Petroleum …

A federal jury convicted a Nigerian national today [June 13, 2024] for operating a business email compromise scheme targeting victims in the United States and elsewhere. According to court documents and evidence presented at trial, Ebuka Raphael Umeti, 35, and his co-conspirators sent victim businesses phishing emails, which were made …

American Airlines flight attendants picketed at DFW International Airport Thursday for a new contract, a week after the Fort Worth-based airline’s CEO tried to slide them a 17% pay bump outside of an agreement. Last week, in an effort to show progress toward a new contract, CEO Robert Isom delivered …

New US sanctions against Russia have caused an immediate suspension of trading in dollars and euros on the country’s leading financial marketplace, the Moscow Exchange. The exchange, also known as MOEX, and the Russian central bank rushed out statements on Wednesday, a public holiday in Russia, within an hour of …

SEVEN European countries are in “dire need” of doctors and nurses, prompting them to ease work visa procedures as they aim to attract foreign healthcare workers to tackle the shortages. A recent report from the 2023 EURES on shortages and surpluses highlighted critical shortages in healthcare occupations across several European …

A last-minute rush to buy rams in many states across the North region has intensified even as the majority of the residents lament the high cost of the sacrificial animal, according to a report by The Punch. Several Muslim faithful in the Arewa region who are eager to be part …

  As far back as December 29, 1987 ( 37 years ago), Prof. Mike Ozekhome, SAN, CON, OFR, had already taken on the Federal Government of Nigeria on behalf of the Nigerian masses regarding the issue of subsidy removal on petroleum products. Ozekhome had sued the then military dictator, President …

The burial of Malawi’s Vice-President Saulos Chilima, who tragically died in a plane crash on Monday, will be held on July 17, the government announced. Chilima, along with eight others, was flying towards a northern town when the military aircraft they were on disappeared from airport radars due to bad weather. …