The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC slams Betta Edu, suspended Humanitarian Minister, her predecessor, Sadiya Umar-Farouq, and the Coordinator of the National Social Insurance Programmes (NSIP) Agency, Halima Shehu, while revealing that a combined total of N32.7bn and $445,000 has been recovered so far from the ministry. The commission made the development known on…
…maintain unbeaten record in all competitions Bayer 04 Leverkusen have won the German Bundesliga for the first time, quelling Bayern Munich’s 11th title. The Xabi Alonso boys did that in style after thumping Werder Bremen at the BayArena on Sunday, 14th April 2024, courtesy of goals from Victor Boniface, Granit Xhaka and Florian Wirtz. The…
Successful candidates from Cross River and Akwa Ibom States who just concluded the Computer-Based Test (CBT) for recruitment into the Nigeria Police Force (NPF), have been invited for a medical screening exercise. According to a statement signed by SP Nelson Okpabi, Public Relations Officer of Zone 6 in Calabar, the successful candidates are to report…
Governor Bassey Otu has commenced the construction of one of the impassable roads in Calabar, Cross River State capital. The road is Okoro Agbor Road with entrance and exit at Marian by Rabanna and Ekong Etta by IBB traffic light. The work, CONVERSEER gathered started on Saturday, 13th April 2024. The project is under the…
Prince Nico Mbarga (born Nicholas Mbarga or Nico Mbarga) as he was fondly called made a living by playing music every Sunday night at Onitsha Plaza Hotel, though not many knew this story. There is probably no street or building named after him. And when Nigerians list the legends of this country, Nico’s name doesn’t…
By Agba Jalingo One of my younger friends who was with me yesterday at home, asked a question about tattoos. He wears tattoos and he is a church instrumentalist. He is smart and very good with multiple instruments. He said he is always uncomfortable about the remarks he gets about his tattoos in Church and…
Former United States president, Mr Donald Trump has said the attack on Israel would not have happened if he was president while promising to restore world peace. Trump stated this while rallying for Support at Schnecksville in Pennsylvania. “We will return the world to peace through strength, and it’ll happen very quickly. “I will revive…
By Felix Agbesanwa Sometimes, one may be in doubt whether truly these girls got missed at the beginning. Recently, with all these facts coming out after ten years, I am indeed worried as a parent that more than ten years now that those girls have been captured by the Boko Horam people, they are still…
The Iran Permanent Mission to the United Nations has warned the United States of America to “stay away” as its attack on Israel was conducted as a “legitimate defence” in response to Israel’s attack on the Iranian embassy in Syria. “Conducted on the strength of Article 51 of the UN Charter pertaining to legitimate defence,…
The United States has said it will support and defend Israel, following the attack by Iran, earlier on. This was disclosed by President Joe Biden while fielding questions from journalists, adding that he expects an Iranian strike on Israel to occur “sooner than later” amid urgent concerns that Iran was about to retaliate for the…
