Hafsat Bakari
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Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit (NFIU) has disclosed plans to focus its international collaborations toward tackling money laundering and terrorist financing threats to Nigeria.
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The federal government has called on member states of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to forge a common front in the fight against terrorism financing in the sub-region.
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The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has threatened to shut down the economy if its President, Joe Ajaero is arrested.Ajaero was in
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The Port Harcourt Electricity Distribution Company (PHED) has denied allegations of N4.3 billion misappropriation involving its chief executive officer and other directors. Mrs Olubukola Ilevbare, PHED’s Head of Corporate Communications, in a statement made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Tuesday in Port Harcourt, described the claims as fabrications by mischief…
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The Police Command in Lagos State has confirmed the death of a 58-year old unnamed man while embarking on a spiritual fasting. The command’s spokesperson, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, confirmed this to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Tuesday in Lagos. Hundeyin said that the incident happened in Alagbado axis of the state on Monday…
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A former governor of Edo State and Senator representing Edo North Senatorial District in the National Assembly, Adams Oshiomhole, on Tuesday
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Nigerian lawyer, Deji Adeyanju has called on the Inspector General Of Police (IGP) to call his officers to order and refrain from heating the polity over the threat to arrest President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Joe Ajero. Reacting to the police invitation to Ajaero on Tuesday in Abuja, Adeyanju said he acknowledges that…
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Ukraine's parliament on Tuesday voted to ban the Russia-linked Ukrainian Orthodox Church, as Kyiv cuts religious, social and institutional ties with bodies it considers aligned with Moscow. Kyiv has been tyring to curb spiritual links with Russia for years -- a process that was hugely accelerated by Moscow's 2022 invasion, which the powerful Russian Orthodox…
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The office of the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice (AGF) on Tuesday told the Court of Appeal that it did not have
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There are signs of hope for households as the average retail price for refilling a 5kg cylinder of Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG), also known as cooking Gas, decreased by 14.23 per cent in July. The product, which sold for N6,966.03 in June 2024, dropped to N5,974.55 in July 2024. However, on a year-on-year basis, the…
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The world's oldest living person, Spain's Maria Branyas Morera, who was born in the United States and lived through two world wars, has died at the age of 117, her family said Tuesday. "Maria Branyas has left us. She died as she wished: in her sleep, peacefully and without pain," her family wrote on her…
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Two climbing teams were scaling El Captain the day we arrived. Or at least, I was told they were. I couldn’t see anyone at all with the naked eye. We were standing underneath the seemingly glass-smooth granite, 900-metre monolith. The scale is unimaginable. El Captian in Yosemite Valley is the spiritual home of big wall…