In a stark reminder of the escalating trend of fraudulent activities among Nigerian youth, a court in Port Harcourt has sentenced a university undergraduate to prison for his involvement in cyber fraud. This case shows the broader socio-economic issues driving young people towards illegal activities as they grapple with an increasingly challenging economic landscape. The…
The Rivers State Government on Wednesday appealed the Federal High Court, Abuja’s judgment which retrained the Central Bank of Nigeria from further releasing allocations from the federation account to the state. This came as the state Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, celebrated one of the failed attempts to impeach him by the Martin Amaewhule-led state House of…
Democratic nominee Kamala Harris will be the next president of the United States and beat Republican rival Donald Trump on Election Day, or so historian and election forecaster Allan Lichtman still predicts. Known for correctly predicting the results of the last nine out of 10 presidential elections, Lichtman said on his YouTube channel Tuesday night that his prediction has not changed, despite Democratic…
NEW YORK (AP) — In the shadow of the White House, seven days before the final votes of the 2024 election are cast, Kamala Harris vowed to put country over party and warned that Donald Trump is obsessed with revenge and his own personal interests. Less than 48 hours earlier inside Madison Square Garden, Trump called his Democratic…
Only yesterday, a court somewhere in Nigeria took it upon itself to inject the honorable court into the intractable man-made crisis in Rivers State. We can look at a ruling like this and remember June 12. A certain Judge ruled that the Electoral Commission should stop releasing results of the elections. Going back all the…
The Niger State House of Assembly has raised the alarm over the takeover of a military training camp in the state. The camp, located at the Nagwamase military cantonment in Kontagora, the headquarters of the Kontagora Local Government area of the state, is reportedly one of the biggest military training camps in the country. In…
In a notable leadership change within the Nigerian music industry, Don Jazzy, the founder and CEO of Mavin Records, has announced the appointment of Tega Oghenejobo as the new President of the renowned record label. The announcement was made on October 30, 2024, during a press conference held at the Mavin headquarters in Lagos, where…
The Federal High Court in Abuja has ordered the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to cease all financial allocations to the Rivers State government, citing constitutional violations by Governor Siminalayi Fubara. The judgement, delivered on October 30, 2024, follows a lawsuit filed by the Rivers State House of Assembly, which challenged the legality of the…
Amid talk of the “bellwether counties” and “swing states,” you may also hear about the “blue wall.” Both Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump have spent considerable time and resources in the blue wall states throughout their campaigns. The states were Democratic strongholds for decades until Trump flipped three of them in 2016, but…
Justice Joyce Abdulmalik of the Federal High Court in Abuja on Wednesday stopped the Central Bank of Nigeria from further releasing monthly financial allocations to Rivers State Government. The presiding judge held that the presentation of the 2024 budget by Governor Siminalayi Fubara before a four -member Rivers House of Assembly was an affront to…
