Nadeem Anjarwalla, one of the two Binance executives detained in Nigeria for alleged tax evasion and other offences, has escaped from lawful custody, Premium Times reported.According to the report, Mr Anjarwalla, 38, escaped on Friday, 22 March, from the Abuja guest house where he and his colleague were detained after
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The Federal Government has donated 100 trucks of rice, 44 trucks of sorghum and four trucks of maize to the Kano State government for distribution to the needy.Sanusi Dawakin Tofa, Director-General, Media and Publicity to Kano government, disclosed this to newsmen on Sunday in Kano.He said Dangote Foundation also supported
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The European Union and UNICEF, through their newly launched Education and Youth Empowerment in the North-West Nigeria programme is to enroll 500,000 out-of-school children in the region.The Ambassador of the European Union delegation to Nigeria and ECOWAS, Ms Samuela Isopi, stated this while addressing journalists shortly after meeting Governor Ahmed
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South African Multinational Corporation and mobile telecommunications provider, MTN, reportedly experienced a significant decline of 7.3 million active subscriptions in January 2024.Recent industry data indicated that this drop occurred as a result of complying with the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC)’s directive to deactivate SIM cards that were not linked with
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Kaduna Governor Uba Sani has clarified that 137 schoolchildren, not 287 as widely reported, were abducted from Kuriga in the Chikun Local Government Area.The schoolchildren were abducted from LEA Primary School and Government Secondary School, Kuriga, on Thursday, March 7.The Governor spoke during an interview on Channels Television’s Sunday Politics.Sani
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Barely one week after the Nigeria Customs Service opened the Illela land border between Nigeria and Niger Republic, the government of the neighbouring country opened its border in Konni for operations on Friday.A source, Nuhu Samaila, from Konni, in Niger Republic, who briefed newsmen, said the border was declared open
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The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission, NERC, has cautioned electricity consumers against self- procurement of transformers, cables, and accessories without formal agreement with distribution companies.NERC Commissioner of Customers Affairs, Aisha Mahmud, gave the warning at the commission’s three-day Customers Complaints Resolution Meeting with Eko Electricity Distribution Company’s customers on Friday
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The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), has busted cocaine syndicates operating in Kano State and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja.NDLEA spokesperson, Femi Babafemi, said in a statement that in Kano State, a syndicate dealing in cocaine and heroin was successfully dismantled with the arrest of 42-year-old Onyeka Uba
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The Coordinating Minister of Health and Social welfare, Prof Muhammad Ali Pate, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Nigerian Sovereign Investment Authority (NSIA) for the procurement of cancer equipment worth N38 billion for six federal tertiary hospitals.The selected hospitals for the project in the six geo-political zones
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In two years, a total of 149 persons have died of tuberculosis and 7,000 others infected with the virus in Cross River State.The state commissioner for health, Dr Henry Ayuk, gave the statistics yesterday in Calabar during the flag-off of the campaign to mark this year’s World Tuberculosis Day at
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