SEVEN commercial banks have been ordered by a federal high court in Lagos to remit the sum of $793.2m to the federal government as it was lodged with them illegally by certain public officials in breach of the Treasury Single Account (TSA) policy.
ONE-time human rights activist and former attorney-general of the federation and justice minister Dr Olu Onagoruwa passed away in the early hours of today at the ripe old age of 80.
Dr Onagoruwa was appointed attorney-general by the late head of state General Sani Abacha, in November 1993. He, however, quit the post few months later due to agreements with the then military government.
WASHINGTON has banned its citizens from travelling to North Korea with effect from the end of August in response to US citizen Otto Warmbier dying in detention after being jailed in the country for 15 years.
Two American agencies that operate tour in North Korea, Koryo Tours and Young Pioneer Tours, said the ban would be announced on July 27 to come into effect 30 days later. Young Pioneer Tours was the agency that took US student, Otto Warmbier, to North Korea.
OHANAEZE Ndigbo Youth Council (OYC) has decided to further its meetings with the Arewa Youth Council ahead of the latter's October 1 deadline which it gave to all Igbos living in northern Nigeria to leave the region.
SPAIN's former monarch King Juan Carlos is reported to have had sex with about 2,154 women over an 18 year period between 1976 and 1994 according to a new book published about his life due out in September.
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FORMER football star and actor OJ Simpson has been granted parole by the Nevada Board of Parole Commissioners after serving nine years in prison for a variety of offences including armed robbery and kidnapping.
NIGER State government has announced plans to demolish houses and other structures along river banks in the state as part of a plan to construct a comprehensive drainage network in response to recent flooding.
LAGOS couple Tunji and Romoke Oyedele have had their 23-year marriage annulled by an Igando Customary Court after the husband accused his wife of infidelity by sleeping with her church pastor.
SENATORS have began the process of decoupling the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) from the Nigeria Financial Intelligence Unit (NFIU) in order to get the country's suspension from the international anti-graft watchdog the Egmont Group lifted.
SEVEN commercial banks have been ordered by a federal high court in Lagos to remit the sum of $793.2m to the federal government as it was lodged with them illegally by certain public officials in breach of the Treasury Single Account (TSA) policy.
ONE-time human rights activist and former attorney-general of the federation and justice minister Dr Olu Onagoruwa passed away in the early hours of today at the ripe old age of 80.
WASHINGTON has banned its citizens from travelling to North Korea with effect from the end of August in response to US citizen Otto Warmbier dying in detention after being jailed in the country for 15 years.
OHANAEZE Ndigbo Youth Council (OYC) has decided to further its meetings with the Arewa Youth Council ahead of the latter's October 1 deadline which it gave to all Igbos living in northern Nigeria to leave the region.
SPAIN's former monarch King Juan Carlos is reported to have had sex with about 2,154 women over an 18 year period between 1976 and 1994 according to a new book published about his life due out in September.
FORMER football star and actor OJ Simpson has been granted parole by the Nevada Board of Parole Commissioners after serving nine years in prison for a variety of offences including armed robbery and kidnapping.
NIGER State government has announced plans to demolish houses and other structures along river banks in the state as part of a plan to construct a comprehensive drainage network in response to recent flooding.
LAGOS couple Tunji and Romoke Oyedele have had their 23-year marriage annulled by an Igando Customary Court after the husband accused his wife of infidelity by sleeping with her church pastor.
SENATORS have began the process of decoupling the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) from the Nigeria Financial Intelligence Unit (NFIU) in order to get the country's suspension from the international anti-graft watchdog the Egmont Group lifted.
