Month: July 2023

Why We’ve Not Paid June Salary To Workers – Nigerian Govt

ADEOLA YUSUF

The office of the Accountant-General of the Federation (OAGF) has blamed some technical challenges for the delay in the payment of June salaries to some government workers. According to the Director of Press, OAGF, Bawa Mokwa, the office is working round the clock to ensure that the problem is resolved. Mr Mokwa said that the delay was caused by technical challenges with the Government Integrated Financial Management System (GIFMIS), one of the salary platforms. “As we speak, the directors and the consultant in charge of the platforms are in a…

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Nigerian Court Grants US-Wanted Man, Abba Kyari, N50m Bail

ADEOLA YUSUF

The former super cop is facing trial in Nigeria over 24-count charge bothering on hard drug trafficking     A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has admitted the former Head of the Intelligence Response Team, Abba Kyari, to a N50 million bail in a charge filed against him and two others by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA). Kyari is being wanted in the United states over his alleged connection with cyber fraud kingpin, Hushpuppi. The NDLEA had filed the 24-count charge marked: FHC/ABJ/CR/408/2022 against Kyari and two…

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GDP Gains N10Trn As Nigeria’s Telecoms Investment Ballons To $75.6Bn

ADEOLA YUSUF

The Executive Vice Chairman (EVC) of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Prof. Umar Garba Danbatta, has officially announced that the investment profile in the nation’s telecommunications sector, comprising foreign direct investment (FDI) and local investment, has reached $75.6 billion as of 2021. Platforms Africa reports that Danbatta disclosed this at an interactive session with stakeholders in the communications media ecosystem, in Lagos on Wednesday where he provided his scorecards and landmark developments that have shaped the trajectory of growth in the telecoms sector since he became the chief telecom regulator…

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Twitter Rival, Threads, Hits 10 Million Users Within Hours of Launch

ADEOLA YUSUF

How Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg exchanged words over Threads threat to Twitter   More than 10 million people have signed up for Threads, Meta’s rival to Twitter, within the first few hours of its launch, the company’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg said on Thursday. The app went live on Apple and Android app stores in 100 countries at 2300 GMT on Wednesday and will run with no ads for now, but its release in Europe has been delayed over data privacy concerns. This was followed by an exchange of words…

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U-TURN: I Scored 249, Not 362 In JAMB – Mmesoma

ADEOLA YUSUF

“249 was the score in the Text Message I got From JAMB, I apologise.”   Mmesoma Ejikeme, the Anambra student who was accused of manually inflating her 2023 UTME result by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board on Wednesday confirmed that she received an automated text message from JAMB indicating that her score was 249. Mmesoma made this known during an interview with Sunrise Daily on Channels Television which was monitored by The PUNCH. JAMB’s spokesman, Fabian Benjamin, had earlier revealed that the candidate sent a series of messages to…

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Obi, Not a Member of LP, Tinubu Tenders Party’s Register

ADEOLA YUSUF

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has tendered the membership register of the Labour Party to prove his claim that Peter Obi is not a member of the party. Being a member of a political party is among the criteria set out by the Electoral Act to be eligible to contest for Nigeria’s presidency Tinubu backed his argument of Peter Obi not being a member of the Labour Party by producing an alleged register of the party for Anambra state. Tinubu, through his lawyers, further claimed that Obi was not qualified to…

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“Result Falsification Now An Industry,” JAMB Reveals, Ends Mmesoma’s Probe

ADEOLA YUSUF

The Registrar, Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, says the board has concluded its investigations on the case of a student in Anambra State, Mmesoma Ejikeme, who was accused  of fraudulently inflating her 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination result. The JAMB Registrar made this disclosure in a transcript sent to our correspondent from Windhoek, Namibia, on Tuesday. He said, “The truth is that JAMB has concluded its investigation on Mmesoma’s score falsification matter; she was not the only one caught, just that others have chosen not to go…

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How Fraudsters Hacked 1000 UBA, Other Banks Accounts Using BVN

ADEOLA YUSUF

Nigerian Police unearthed dirty details of syndicates stealing and mopping millions from many       The Zone 2 Police Command in Lagos State has confirmed the arrest of two members of a syndicate linked to the hacking of no fewer than 1000 bank accounts in Nigeria. The spokesperson for the command, SP Hauwa Idris-Adamu, in a statement on Tuesday, said the suspects, who specialised in hacking local banks, were nabbed at their hideout in Ijebu Ode, Ogun State, following a petition by the United Bank for Africa. Idris-Adamu identified…

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Gbobo Is New MD Of Shell Nigeria Gas

ADEOLA YUSUF

Leading energy company, Shell, has announced the appointment of Mr. Ralph Gbobo as the Managing Director of its gas distribution company, Shell Nigeria Gas Limited, with effect from 1st July 2023. He succeeds Ed Ubong who has taken up a new position within the Shell group. Until this appointment, Ralph was the Manager, Commercial and Non-Operated Venture of The Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Limited (SPDC) and Shell Shareholders Representative for the seven SPDC onshore non-operated venture assets. He comes to SNG with a wealth of oil and gas…

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NewsDirect Publisher, Samuel Ibiyemi, Is Dead

ADEOLA YUSUF

+ His last message before death   The publisher of Nigerian NewsDirect, Samuel Ibyemu, is dead. Ibiyemi died after a long battle with PULMONARY EMBOLISM (Blood clots) at Babcock Teaching Hospital,Ilisan, Ogun state. READ ALSO: Aboru Aboye: Tope Alabi Believes She is Above Everyone – Funmi Aragbaye Mexican Mayor Marries Reptile Man Offers Ejikeme Scholarship, Says JAMB Action An attack on Igbo Race 4 Days In 3 Cities, How Lai Oso’ll Be Buried – Family United Nations Institute Names Adeola Yusuf Panelist For African IDEP Event His colleague, Sulaiman Salau,…

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