Barely 19 days to leave office, President Muhammadu Buhari has written to the senate to approve a request to borrow $800 million from the World Bank. He said the loan is mearnt to for the National Social Safety Net programme designed to support poor and vulnerable Nigerians The President’s request …
Read More »Tinubu departs for Europe, to meet with investors
President-elect Bola Ahmed Tinubu has departed Nigeria on a working trip to Europe. Tinubu who left the Country on Wednesday will also use the trip to fine-tune transition plans and programmes, as well as his policy options, with some of his key aides without undue pressures and distractions. This was …
Read More »Court Convicts Eleven Internet Fraudsters in Ogun, Oyo
No fewer than eleven internet fraudsters have been convicted by the Oyo State High Court, Ibadan and the Ogun State High Court, Abeokuta on separate one count charges. The Ibadan Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has secured their conviction to various jail terms before Justices …
Read More »Man wrongly convicted of rape released from Prison after 29 Years
A Louisiana man, Patrick Brown, was released from prison on Monday after spending 29 years behind bars for a rape he didn’t commit. Brown, 49, was convicted in 1994 of raping his then six-year-old stepdaughter and was sentenced to life without parole. According to The Guardian on Tuesday, it was …
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