A senior special assistant to Ogun State governor has been arrested in the United State for wire fraud, the US Department of Justice said in a statement on Monday. Abidemi Rufai was arrested at the JFK Airport in New York on his way out of the US and has appeared before a court on May…

In the weeks leading to Ramadan, Nigeria was not exactly in a good place. Multiple security challenges, spiking inflation that puts pressure on purchasing power and a downer on lifestyle, rising secessionist agitations riding on the backs of polarising rhetorics, and a pervasive air of retrogression characterised many discourses. For many Muslims, it was a…

When he was in the BBNaija House in 2020 as a contestant, his songs 'Hip Hop' and 'Fierce' became street hops. In fact, 'Fierce' was the go-to anthem for his fans - icons. With record votes in his name and fans spread out all over the world, it may have looked like a daunting task…

Scammers have latched on to the recent philanthropic drive of MacKenzie Scott, the former wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, to help people deal with the economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. At least a scam ring has a fictitious website it uses to defraud registered by a Nigerian web hosting company. MacKenzie Scott acquired…

Ride-hailing giant Uber on Wednesday said "speaking with drivers is important" as the strike called by the drivers enters Day 2. Uber, however, referred to the striking drivers as a "small group". "We are aware of a protest taking place by a small group of e-hailing drivers, resulting in slightly longer waiting times for riders,"…

The calls for Nigeria's minister of communication and digital economy Dr Isa Ali Pantami to resign over his past extreme religious views continued on Sunday. 48-year-old Pantami, for the first time, on Saturday acknowledged his past views but said he has since renounced those radical comments, Daily Trust reported. The minister blamed his past radical…

To many Nigerians, Jude Akuwudike’s name and face are not exactly familiar. The closest he got to a film remotely Nigerian was when he played Dada Goodblood in the film adaptation of Uzodinma Iweala’s Beasts of No Nation. But that can hardly subtract from his skills and accomplishments as an actor. Jude becoming an actor…

Respite for drivers on e-hailing services will end later in August when Lagos State Government's new regulations for ride-hailing services take effect. Under the new regulations, which were earlier scheduled to take effect in March, third-party operators like Uber and Bolt that have over 1000 drivers on their platforms will pay ₦25 million licencing fee…

Adetoke Ogunranti, a multimedia journalist, started her small logistics company in March with four motorcycles. She aimed to have another source of income. Three months later, Ogunranti was forced to sell off two of the four bikes. "Police, local government officials and NIPOST are taxing out of business," Ogunranti said on Friday evening. "There was…

  In the last few decades, Nigeria's oil-rich Niger Delta has had to battle many problems: damaged environment, lax security that made militancy and kidnapping thriving businesses for a select few, dwindling livelihood occasioned by oil spillages, and bad governance.   While militancy - mostly attacks on oil installations and oil workers - has taken the…

A "well-orchestrated" COVID-19-related fraud targeting multiple American states has been traced back to Nigeria, an internal US Secret Service memo said. The memo, seen by The Guardian, was reportedly sent to Secret Service's field offices across the US on Thursday, May 14. The Secret Service said the fraudsters are exploring the COVID-19 pandemic to commit…

On April 2, the International Organisation for Migration rescued 256 persons in the arid northern Niger. The trafficked persons were abandoned by their traffickers close to the Niger-Libya border, dehydrated and desperately in need of food. A baby was among those rescued, IOM's Chief of Mission in Niger, Barbara Rijks, said. All the rescued persons…