Bawa: NGOs Vulnerable To Terrorists Financing
Chairman, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Abdulrasheed Bawa, has indicated that non-profit organizations involved in alleviating the humanitarian crisis in the North-East are vulnerable to terrorist financing abuse. The EFCC chairman, who noted this at the flag-off of the non-profit organization National Risk Assessment in Nigeria by the Special Control Unit against Money Laundering at […]
PMB Discusses Investment, Trade With Afreximbank, AfCFTA Chiefs
President Muhammadu Buhari has ensured that the Nigerian government will continue to promote efforts to broaden the economy through multilateral financing. Buhari spoke at a parley with Prof. Benedict Oramah, President, African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank), and Wamkele Mene, Secretary-General, African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) Secretariat. They met on Sunday in Durban, South Africa, ahead […]
US Journalist Jailed In Myanmar For Nearly 6 Months Is Freed
American journalist Danny Fenster, who was recently sentenced to 11 years of hard labor after spending nearly six months in jail in military-ruled Myanmar, was freed and on his way home Monday, a former U.S. diplomat who helped negotiate the release said. Fenster, the managing editor of the online magazine Frontier Myanmar, was convicted Friday of […]
Storm Surveys Confirm 3 Tornadoes Touched Down On Long Island: National Weather Service
Even an EF-0 tornado is still a tornado and extensive damage is possible. An EF-0 twister uprooted a tree and ripped up the sidewalk with it on Tulip Lane in Levittown. Neighbors have been cutting the fallen tree up and they have more cleaning up to do Monday. A total of three tornados swept across Long […]
Liverpool Women’s Hospital Explosion: Three Terror Arrests After Man Killed In Taxi Blast
Three men have been arrested under terror legislation after a taxi explosion outside Liverpool Women’s hospital that killed the passenger. The men – aged 29, 26 and 21 – were detained in the Kensington area of the city and arrested under the Terrorism Act, police said. A street in the city’s Sefton Park area was […]
Party Chieftain: Why PDP Must Give The Presidential Ticket To Northern Nigeria
Alhaji Lawal Usman, a Chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, says the party must zone its presidential ticket to the North for the 2023 general election for strategic reasons. Usman, popularly called Mr. LA, said this when he spoke with the News Agency of Nigeria in Zaria, Kaduna State on Sunday. He said: “For the […]
APGA: We’ll Reproduce Anambra Victory In Ekiti
All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA ) in Ekiti State, has indicated its readiness to participate in the forthcoming elections in the state, saying it would field candidates in the December 4, 2021, local government elections in the state. Defining its victory at the just-concluded Anambra governorship poll as a morale booster, it urged Ekiti people […]
NCDC Records 51 New Cases With 11 Losses
Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on Saturday confirmed 11 additional deaths were documented as a backlog from Edo State, bringing the country’s victim toll to 2,960. Data from the disease center also showed that other 51 new infections were confirmed across 15 states of the federation raising the total number of confirmed infections in […]
Governor Obaseki: I’ve No Plans To Switch Parties
Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, reiterated that he has no plans to join another political party, reassuring that his party affiliation will not alter development plans for the state. Obaseki, who spoke yesterday during a Banquet in Benin City, as part of activities for this year’s Alaghodaro Summit, said his government is committed to […]
Devastated Queen Forced To Pull Out Of Remembrance Sunday With Sprained Back
The Queen will miss today’s Remembrance Sunday commemorations after having sprained her back, Buckingham Palace announced just hours before Her Majesty was due to arrive in central London to attend in person the National Service of Remembrance. The palace said in a statement the sovereign took the decision to pull out of the event “with […]
