The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) says individuals who invested in the CBEX digital trading platform that recently crashed will get their money back. Speaking on Channels TV’s Morning Brief on Wednesday, April 16, Dele Oyewale, the spokesperson of the EFCC, said the anti-graft agency has been receiving numerous calls from Nigerians seeking information…
France said Tuesday it was expelling 12 Algerian diplomatic officials a day after Algeria announced the expulsion of the same number of French officials in escalating tensions between the two countries. Algeria said Monday that its expulsion of 12 French officials was over the arrest of an Algerian consular official by French authorities in a…
A yet-to-be-identified security operative has shot a woman dead in Anambra State, Nigeria’s South-east. Sources told PREMIUM TIMES that the incident happened on Tuesday evening at the popular Ibeto Junction in Nnewi, a community in Nnewi North Local Government Area of the state. Heavy gridlock often occurs at the junction, according to sources familiar with…
Iran warned against any military aggression while reiterating its commitment to regional peace and a civilian nuclear program in its official response to a recent letter by U.S. President Donald Trump, a senior Iranian military official said. Trump last month told Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in a letter that his country had two months to reach a new nuclear…
The Lagos State High Court in Ikeja, on Wednesday, declared the removal of Mudashiru Obasa as Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly unconstitutional, rendering the proceedings that led to his ouster null and void. Justice Yetunde Pinheiro, delivering the judgment, held that the process that culminated in Obasa’s removal violated both constitutional provisions…
