Failed banks: NDIC assures business investors, depositors of prompt payouts
Officials of the Nigerian Deposit Insurance Corporation (NDIC) have pledged to intensify efforts to curb incidences of bank failure in the country, while assuring depositors of timely access to their…
Police arraigns man over alleged identity theft
Swift operatives of the Force Criminal Investigation Department (ForceCID), Annex, Alagbon-Ikoyi, Lagos, have arraigned Essien Emmanuel Akpama before the Federal High Court in Lagos over alleged identity theft, impersonation and…
When is something wrong
By Basil Fadipe SOMETHING is wrong when it is wrong. it is not wrong only when it adversely affects us or those dear to us. It is wrong when it…
FRSC secures two-month jail term for traffic guidelines violator
The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) has secured a two-month jail term without the option of a fine for a motorist arrested for driving against traffic on the Lagos–Ibadan Expressway.…
Two suspected extortionists busted by Lagos task force
OPERATIVES of the Lagos State Taskforce have arrested two suspected street urchins, popularly known as Omotaku, along the Oshodi–Agunlejika–Apapa Expressway for allegedly extorting motorists. The suspects, AbiodunAjasa, 44, of No.…
The Political logic of Trump’s violent lawlessness
By Timothy Snyder Toronto – The moral horror wrought by U.S. President Donald Trump’s second administration is incontrovertible. The execution of Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old intensive-care-unit nurse and U.S. citizen,…
Tinubu’s diplomatic offensive, foreign trips and strategic gains
By Jude Obioha IN Nigerian politics, perception often travels faster than facts. Few issues illustrate this better than the chorus of criticism surrounding President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s foreign trips. For…
HURIWA urges AGF Fagbemi to take over prosecution of 11 suspects in journalist’s death
Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) has called on the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Lateef Fagbemi, to take over the prosecution of 11 persons…
Chinese directors bags 46 years jail each for cybercrime, money laundering
Hon. Justice Daniel Osiagor of the Federal High Court, Lagos, has convicted and sentenced two Chinese nationals and directors of Genting International Co. Limited, Huang Haoyu, also known as Ken,…
OPay count loses as fire destroys Ibadan office
A fire outbreak on Tuesday gutted parts of an OPay office along the busy Akala Expressway in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, destroying property estimated at millions of naira and…