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- 30 Jul 2025
NCC and Attorneys-General Forge Powerful Alliance to Accelerate Nigeria’s Digital Transformation
Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has officially inaugurated its first-ever Annual Workshop for Attorneys-General, convening top legal officers from across Nigeria to strengthen regulatory…
- 10 May 2022
FG Withdraws Charges of Cyberstalking against Suraju, HEDA Chair
Federal government on Tuesday withdrew cyberstalking charges against Olanrewaju Suraju, chairman, Human and Environmental Development Agenda (HEDA). Olanrewaju Suraju, chairman, Human and…
- 8 Nov 2018
$2b Withholding tax: MTN’s Suit against AGF Adjourned to Dec. 3
A Federal High Court in Lagos hearing the case between MTN Nigeria and the Attorney-General’s Office over a $2 billion demand in back taxes by the federal government has been adjourned till December…
- 25 Jun 2024
Alleged Blackmail of Zinox Chairman and Access Bank by Benjamin Joseph: The Full Story
By Adamu Sanni, Public Affairs Analyst An undue reprieve came the way of Mr. Benjamin Joseph, an indigene of Enugu State and Managing Director of Ibadan-based Citadel Oracle Concepts Limited, on…
- 1 Jun 2017
FG, MTN in Court over Mast Installation in Niger
A Federal High Court sitting in Minna, Niger State, is currently hearing a case of illegal installation of mast instituted by the office of the Attorney-General of the Federation against telecom…
- 24 Sept 2018
MRA Idnucts NBC into FOI Hall of Shame
Media Rights Agenda (MRA) today named the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) this week’s inductee into the “Freedom of Information (FOI) Hall of Shame”, saying that its overall performance in the…
- 15 Feb 2017
Bankers, Civil Servants in Trouble over $151m in Fictitious Accounts
Mr. Abubakar Malami (SAN), attorney-general of the Federation, has said that the federal government was compiling lists of suspects who will face trial over the $151million and N8billion found in…
- 5 Nov 2018
MRA Inducts CommTech into ‘FOI Hall of Shame’
The Media Rights Agenda (MRA) has inducted the Federal Ministry of Communication Technology into its “Freedom of Information (FOI) Hall of Shame”, accusing the Ministry of extremely poor performance…
- 4 Sept 2018
FG Targets MTN for Cash as Buhari Govt. Tightens Rules Ahead 2019 Elections- Expert
The many troubles of MTN group in Nigeria may both economic and political play the federal government of Nigeria, according to Ron Klipin, an analyst at Cratos Wealth in Johannesburg. Klipin,…
- 13 Jan 2020
House, EFCC to Probe Defaulting Telcos of NITDA Fund
Alhaji Lado Abdullahi, chairman, House of Representatives Committee on ICT, has said that Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) will join the committee to investigate telecom providers,…
- 14 Jun 2016
Reps Summon Ministers, Others over MTN Fine
House of Representatives Committee on Telecommunications has summoned Abubakar Malami, Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF); Adebayo Shittu, minister of Communications; Prof. Garba Danbata,…
- 24 Apr 2018
FG Moves to Adopt Policies, Legislation to Fight Cyber-crime
The Federal Government has taken several steps through domestic policies and legislation as well as multilateral cooperation and collaboration to fight cybercrime , the Attorney-General of the…
- 5 Mar 2018
MRA Inducts NLRC into FOI Hall of Shame
Media Rights Agenda (MRA) has named the National Lottery Regulatory Commission (NLRC) as this week’s inductee into its “Freedom of Information (FOI) Hall of Shame” for consistently violating the…
- 11 Jun 2018
MRA Inducts Onu’s Science and Tech Ministry into‘FOI Hall of Shame’
The Federal Ministry of Science and Technology under the leadership of Dr. Christopher Ogbonnaya Onu has been inducted into the ‘FOI Hall of Shame’ by Media Rights Agenda (MRA) for alleged blatant…
- 9 Apr 2018
MRA Inducts Voice of Nigeria into FOI ‘Hall of Shame’
Media Rights Agenda (MRA) has named the Voice of Nigeria (VON) into its Freedom of Information (FOI) Hall of Shame, accusing it of failing to promote the FOI Act and ensuring its effective…
- 20 Jul 2017
Court Orders Seven Banks to Remit $793m to TSA
Seven commercial banks in the country have been ordered by a Federal High Court in Lagos to temporarily remit a total of $793, 200, 000 allegedly hidden with them in contravention of the Federal…
- 3 Mar 2017
Police Continue Prosecution of Joseph, Alleged Blackmailer of Zinox
The Nigerian Police is to continue the prosecution of a case involving Benjamin Joseph, an Enugu indigene and self-acclaimed managing director of an Ibadan-based company, Citadel Oracle…
- 13 Sept 2017
Group Asks Buhari to Sack Fashola, Others for Non-Performance
Centre for Anti-Corruption and Open Leadership (CACOL), a community-based and civil society organisation has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to urgently rejig his cabinet and as a matter of…
- 18 Jul 2018
NHIS Accuses Banks, CEOs of Hiding N720Bn
Professor Usman Yusuf, executive secretary, National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), has indicted banks, former executive secretaries of NHIS, select management staff and interest groups in a fresh…
- 7 Nov 2021
Adia Sowho, Chief Marketing Officer, MTN Nigeria Others Express Optimism About the Future of Nigerian Startups
Adia Sowho, Chief Marketing Officer, MTN Nigeria has expressed optimism about the future of the Nigerian startups while discussing the Nigerian Startup Bill at the Nigerian Economic Pre-Summit event.…
- 2 Mar 2022
N2Bn Fraud Suit: SEC Alleges Famzhi Interbiz not Registered, Licensed
Ahmed Nakwada, senior manager with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), has told a Federal High Court that Famzhi Interbiz Limited was not registered nor licensed to carry out capital market…
- 9 Jan 2016
Indian Firm Takes over NIS Job, Hijacks Sensitive National Security Project
Continental Transfer Technique Limited (CONTEC), an Indian firm, has hijacked a sensitive national security project – the Combined Expatriate Residence Permit and Aliens Card – which was supposed to…
- 27 Aug 2018
MRA Inducts NIPOST into its ‘FOI Hall of Shame’ for Violating FOI
Media Rights Agenda today named the Nigerian Postal Service (NIPOST) into its “Freedom of Information (FOI) Hall of Shame” for the institution’s failure to comply with its duties and obligations…
- 29 Apr 2015
Indonesia Executes 3 Nigerians, Others for Drug Trafficking
Three Nigerians and five other members of the Bali Nine prisoners being held in Indonesia for drug offences have just been executed on Nusakambangan Prison Island near Cilacap in Central Java.…
- 10 Mar 2020
FG Accuses Mortgage Bank MD of N32.6m Fraud
Federal government has dragged, Bayo Adewakun, a former managing director of Mortgages PHB Limited before the Federal High Court in Lagos, for allegedly defrauding the mortgage bank of the sum of…
- 16 Sept 2018
Is MTN Being Shaken Down By Buhari's Government?
Nigeria’s costly claims against the South African company raise questions about investment security in Africa’s largest economy, according to Peter Fabricius, a consultant with Institute for Security…
- 25 Nov 2019
MTN Nigeria Launches First Demo 5G Network Service in West Africa
MTN Nigeria on Monday carried out the first live demo of 5G network service, with this, Nigeria has become the first country in West Africa to perform trial of 5G technology and applications. …
- 15 May 2019
P &ID Offers FG Olive Branch Over Contract Dispute
Nigeria stands to lose up to $9 billion worth of its foreign assets following an enforcement application to US and UK courts by Process and Industrial Development (P &ID), a British firm tied up…
- 16 Jun 2016
Nigeria Police Launch Forensic Lab, Digital Resource
The Nigeria Police Force has set up a forensic laboratory and digital resource center in Abuja to aid the activities of its criminal Intelligence and investigation department. The facility, which…
- 11 Oct 2019
FG Sets Up Dedicated Email Address for Sexual Harassment Complaints
Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (FCCPC) has set up a dedicated email address to receive complaints about sexual harassment in the country’s institutions of higher learning.…