Nigeria

Abdulrasheed Bawa, the chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), said yesterday that there had been 3,440 convictions for financial and cybercrimes across the country from January to November 2022.

The lawyer for a Nigerian student facing allegations of defaming the wife of the state’s president over an insulting tweet said his client appeared in a criminal court in Abuja on Thursday.

Usman Alkali Baba, the Inspector General of Police, has filed a motion with the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja to vacate the contempt proceeding and committal order issued on Tuesday, November 29, 2022.

The Presidency revealed on Friday that nine oil-producing states got a total of N625.43 billion in 13 per cent oil derivation, subsidy, and SURE-P repayments from the Federation Account during the previous two years.

A 40-foot container from India with twenty cartons of tapentadol, a novel variety of tramadol with an estimated street value of N1, 560,000,000, was seized by the Nigeria Customs Service Apapa Command.

Diezani Alison-Madueke, a former minister of petroleum resources, has been accused by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) of giving Nigerian politicians $115 million to influence the outcomes of the 2015 elections.

Zainab Ahmed, Nigeria’s Minister of Finance, Budget, and National Planning, has said that the country is not broke.

Lai Mohammed, the Minister of information and Culture,  said no administration since 1999 has supported states more financially than President Muhammadu Buhari’s.

During an International Scientific Workshop hosted by the West African Postgraduate College of Pharmacists (WAPC) and the Nigerian Institute of Pharmaceutical Research and Development (NIPRD), Nigeria’s minister of state for health, Hon. Joseph Ekwumankama voiced his disapproval of the current state of affairs.