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Dutch couple arraigned in $330,000 fraud

crime, law and justice

The Port Harcourt Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arraigned a Dutch couple Peiter Borremans and Nkechi Borremans alongside Lagon Trade Limited for an alleged $330,000 fraud involving a tanker vessel
thenationonlineng.net     Mar 02, 2021

Black History Month: State of the race, dancing with shackles

art and culture

For Black Africa and its American descendants, the past year has been a telling one. For a moment, a spark of hope appeared. A gossamer hope that we might actively press for the economic justice and freedom that have been our want for centuries. The global eruption after the police murder of George Floyd was that moment. But the moment faded. Even before fading, it was taken over by those who saw our interests as inferior and contrary to theirs. The Floyd episode shows the difficulty of generating a lasting political movement based on angry emotion rather than studied commitment. We got mad but did not grow smart.
thenationonlineng.net     Feb 27, 2021

Imo stakeholders urge Uzodimma to recover stolen funds, property

crime, law and justice

STAKEHOLDERS from the 305 wards in Imo State, after a meeting in Owerri yesterday, resolved to mandate the state government to recover every property, money or wealth, stolen from Imo people by any person, no matter how highly placed.
thenationonlineng.net     Feb 27, 2021

Nigeria, Kenya, Zimbabwe start-ups lead finalists for $2-million Jua Fund

Eight Kenyan enterprises and five start-ups each from Nigeria and Zimbabwe are among the 25 finalists shortlisted for the $2-million Jua Fund, the largest African venture capital fund by a private individual.
thenationonlineng.net     Feb 27, 2021

Mai Tangale crisis: Suspicion persists after bloody day in Gombe community

economy and finances

Billiri, the second largest town in Gombe State is a quiet, peaceful and unarguably a civilised town, going by the number of its educated sons and daughters scattered within and outside the country. On Friday, February 19, however, the peaceful agrarian community erupted in a violence that claimed four lives and led to loss of properties worth hundreds of millions of naira over the appointment of a new Mai Tangale.
thenationonlineng.net     Feb 27, 2021

Double standard?

unrest, conflicts and war

The speed and dexterity exhibited by the Nigerian Army in clamping down on members of the banned Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) in Orlu, Imo state, is exemplary. It shows what a determined National Army should do when affronted by dissidents and troublemakers.
thenationonlineng.net     Feb 26, 2021

South East elders call for total clampdown on IPOB

1k 🔥       unrest, conflicts and war

The elders under the aegis of Conference of Concerned Igbo Elders for Peace and National Unity in a statement on Friday reacted to the attack on security operatives within the Orlu Council of Imo State allegedly by members of IPOB.
thenationonlineng.net     Feb 26, 2021

Ooni unveils indigenous cure for COVID-19

1k 🔥       health

“I want to announce to the whole world that there a new phase in traditional medicine research that will be berth soon with the introduction of an Executive bill, which is at the second reading at the National Assembly, on herbal product research.
thenationonlineng.net     Feb 25, 2021

Bawa: EFCC has powers to probe unexplained wealth

Bawa’s wife, a delegation of lawmakers from Kebbi in the House of Representatives and members of the Kebbi State House of Assembly led by their Speaker were also admitted into the Senate chamber to observe the screening.
thenationonlineng.net     Feb 24, 2021

BREAKING: Senate screens Bawa for EFCC chair

A delegation of lawmakers from Kebbi in the House of Representatives and members of the Kebbi House of Assembly led by the Speaker were also admitted into the Senate chambers to observe the screening.
thenationonlineng.net     Feb 24, 2021

Labour urges members to participate in politics

President of the National Union of Food Beverage and Tobacco Employees (NUFBTE), Lateef Idowu Oyelekan, and his counterpart in the National Union of Textile Garment and Tailoring Workers of Nigeria (NUTGTWN), John Adaji, stated this in Lagos while extolling the virtues of Chairman, House Committee on Tertiary Education and Services, Suleiman Goro.
thenationonlineng.net     Feb 22, 2021

Orlu: Why soldiers arrested church leaders, by Imo

The Imo State government has given reasons for the arrest of some priests and leaders of white garment churches – Cherubim and Seraphim and Sabbath Missions – in some council areas in Orlu by soldiers.
thenationonlineng.net     Feb 21, 2021

Anambra APC raises the alarm over alleged IPOB’s attack on registrars

The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Anambra has raised the alarm over alleged attack on its workers at the ongoing registration and revalidation exercise by suspected members of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB).
thenationonlineng.net     Feb 21, 2021

FG to launch Principal’s Cup in 41,000 secondary schools-Dare

Dare, who disclosed this while addressing members of the South West Group of Online publishers (SWEGOP) in Ibadan on Saturday, said 41,000 secondary schools across the nation would participate in the football competition.
thenationonlineng.net     Feb 21, 2021

YISA SOFOLUWE: Last days of ex-Super Eagles star, by children and friends

social issue

Wife, children, friends and many ex-internationals were on hand to pay their last respect to late ex-Super Eagles star Yisa Sofoluwe during the eight-day Fidau ceremony put together by family and friends.
thenationonlineng.net     Feb 20, 2021

Military combs Orlu for IPOB camps

There was panic in Orlu, Njaba and Orsu Local Government Areas of Imo State on Thursday, following a combined military and police operation in search of Eastern Security Network (ESN) camps and members.
thenationonlineng.net     Feb 18, 2021

Sanwo-Olu, Oyetola’s wife hail Aisha Buhari at 50

He said Mrs. Buhari, a cosmetologist and a beauty therapist, who turns 50 today, has touched the lives of millions of Nigerians, especially women and children, since the assumption of her husband as the President in May 2015.
thenationonlineng.net     Feb 16, 2021

NBS: Inflation is 16.47 per cent

economy and finances

NBS noted that the change in the average composite CPI for the 12-month period ending January 2021 over the average of the CPI for the previous 12-month period was 13.62 per cent, representing a 0.37 percentage point increase over 13.25 per cent it recorded last December.
thenationonlineng.net     Feb 16, 2021