Directors of 10 banks collected N6.96bn sitting allowance and compensation in 2021, according to an analysis of the lenders’ financial results.
The amount represents an increase of 3.32 per cent from N6.74bn the directors received in 2020.
The 10 banks are: United Bank for…
The Niger State Police Command has announced that it has recaptured one Kazeem Murtala aged 54, who escaped from the Kuje Custodial Centre.
In a statement signed by the state Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, DSP Wasiu Abiodun, he said the inmate…
Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have arrested one of the wanted terror suspects, Suleiman Sidi, who escaped from the Medium Security Correctional Centre, Kuje, following an attack on the facility by insurgents last week in Abuja.
Spokesman of…
Former Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Chief Olu Falae, said Nigerian people are campaigning on ethnic agenda because the Nigerian state does not make an impact on the lives of individuals.
He maintained that the government has also failed to…
President Muhammadu Buhari and nine All Progressives Congress (APC) Governorsmet yesterday in his Daura country home in Katsina State.
They are Governors Aminu Masari (Katsina); Abdullahi Ganduje (Kano); Abubakar Bagudu (Kebbi); Abubakar Bello (Niger); Abdullahi Sule (Nasarawa); Hope Uzodinma (Imo); Kayode Fayemi (Ekiti);…
The Federal High Court in Abuja has restrained Fidelity Bank Plc and other co-defendants from taking over Benin Electricity Distribution Company Plc (BEDC), pending the hearing and determination of a July 8, 2022 motion on notice.
Justice Emeka Nwite made the order…
A High Court of the Federal Capital Territory in Abuja has restrained Craneburg Construction Co. Limited, Oyo State Government and two others from meddling with a contract awarded to ENL Consortium Ltd pending the hearing and determination of a Motion on Notice…
Some senior lawyers have approached a Federal High Court in Lagos, asking the court to nullify the approval given by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) for the acquisition of Union Bank by Titan Trust Bank.
The lawyers led by Mr. A.M…
Former Chief Judge the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Justice Ishaq Bello, has expressed discomfort at what he called ‘the growing number of adults in the nation’s borstal institutions’.
Justice Bello noted that despite the country having few borstal…
Ahead of Saturday’s governorship election in Osun State, the Inspector-General of Police (IGP) Usman Alkali Baba, on Sunday ordered the immediate deployment of the Deputy Inspector-General (DIG) of Police in charge of the Force Criminal Investigation Department (FCID) who is the supervisory…