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A 36-year-old Nigerian national, Okezie Ogbata, has been sentenced to 97 months jail term in the United States for his role in a $6 million transnational inheritance fraud scheme.   The United States Department of Justice disclosed this in a statement released on Monday.   Ogbata was found to be ...

The Lagos State Police Command has arrested eight individuals in connection with a series of cult-related killings within the Yaba College of Technology and its surrounding areas.   The arrests were made on April 29, 2025, following an intelligence-led operation.   According to a statement released by the command’s Public ...

The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control has launched innovative mobile technologies aimed at combating counterfeit drugs in Nigeria’s North-East region.   PUNCH Online reports that at a two-day sensitisation workshop in Gombe, stakeholders from various healthcare sectors were introduced to the “Scan 2 Verify” and “Green ...

A data and AI expert, Abel Aboh, has urged the Nigerian government to embed artificial intelligence education into school curricula from the nursery level upwards, warning that the country risks falling behind global standards if it fails to act swiftly.   Speaking during an interview with Channels Television on Wednesday, ...

Justice Olusola Adetujoye of the Oyo State High Court sitting in Ibadan has convicted and sentenced Olaniyan Amos to 63 years in jail for multiple investment fraud.   Amos was convicted alongside his firm, Detorrid Heritage Investment Limited, on Monday.   They were prosecuted on 30-count charges by the Economic ...

The Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party in Kaduna State, Chief Edward Masha, says the party is on course to reclaim power in the state, citing increasing dissatisfaction with the ruling All Progressives Congress and growing public support for the PDP’s alternative vision.   Masha, in a statement on Wednesday, ...

Dangote’s World Bank appointment well deserved – Tinubu   By Rotimi Agbana   President Bola Tinubu has congratulated the Chairman of Dangote Group, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, on his appointment to the World Bank’s Private Sector Investment Lab — a high-level global advisory body designed to accelerate private investment and job ...

Abia State Governor, Alex Otti, has said he is unbothered by what he described as the “noise” from opposition party members in the state.   Otti made the remark on Tuesday while receiving a delegation led by the member representing Bende North State Constituency, Nnamdi Ibekwe, who recently dumped the ...

The Yobe State Government said it is committed to reaching 80 per cent vaccination coverage by 2026, as it intensifies efforts to close immunisation gaps and protect children from vaccine-preventable diseases.   The state Commissioner for Health, Dr. Mohammed Gana, who said this on Tuesday at a one-day media dialogue ...

Telecommunications services disrupted in Kogi State are expected to resume by Wednesday following a resolution of the dispute between MTN Nigeria and the state government, the Association of Licensed Telecoms Operators of Nigeria has said.   The Chairman of ALTON, Gbenga Adebayo, told PUNCH Online on Tuesday that the issues ...