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The source said during one of his routine gym exercises, Dokpesi was electrocuted while using one of the gym equipment, leading to a stroke and his eventual death. Details of how AIT Founder Raymond Dokpesi was electrocuted and died during a gym routine have emerged. It had been earlier reported that the founder of DAAR Communications PLC, Raymond Dokpesi, a ...

Bola Tinubu, winner of the February 25 presidential election, has been sworn in as president of Nigeria. Chief Justice of Nigeria, Kayode Ariwoola, administered the oath of office on Tinubu at exactly 10:37am. He mounted the podium alongside his wife, Senator Oluremi Tinubu; former President Muhammadu Buhari and his wife, Aisha Buhari stood behind Tinubu as he took oath of ...

Ahmed Lawan, senate president, read the president’s letter of request at a plenary session on Wednesday.  Again, President Buhari seeks senate’s approval to pay $556m, £98m, N226bn judgement debts With six days to go, President Muhammadu Buhari has asked the senate to approve a request to pay various sums as judgment debts. The amounts — $566,754,584, £98,526,012 and N226 billion ...

US President Joe Biden has announced a nine-member delegation to attend the inauguration ceremony of Bola Tinubu, president-elect, on May 29. According to a statement on the White House website, Marcia L. Fudge, US secretary of the department of housing and urban development, will lead the delegation. Other members of the US delegation to Nigeria are as follows: David Greene, ...

President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of Dr. (Mrs) Oluwatoyin Sakirat Madein, as the new substantive Accountant-general of the Federation (AGF). Her appointment followed the successful conduct of a selection process to fill the existing vacancy. Dr Madein is stepping in to take over from Mr. Sylva Okolieboh, who had been in acting capacity as the AGF following the ...

Governor Bello Matawalle of Zamfara State has accused the chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Abdulrasheed Bawa, of demanding $2 million bribe from him. He made the allegation amid the growing rift between the governor and the anti-graft agency. In a statement on Wednesday, Matawalle called for Bawa’s resignation, saying he had questions to answer on corruption. ...

This was disclosed in a letter to the global financial institution by the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP). The World Bank has been asked not to disburse the $800m loan sought by President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration. This was disclosed in a letter to the global financial institution by the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP). Recall that the Federal ...

A Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Adeyinka Olumide-Fusika, has frowned at the manner and way his client and Afrobeats singer, Seun Kuti, was treated by the Lagos State Police Command when the latter voluntarily turned himself in on Monday. Kuti had turned himself in at the Lagos State Police Command headquarters in Ikeja on Monday days after he was seen ...

The Director General, Budget Office of the Federation, Mr Ben Akabueze, has warned that the Nigerian government under President Muhammadu Buhari is fast exceeding its limited borrowing space. Akabueze stated this at the International Conference Centre, Abuja, during the induction of newly-elected lawmakers of the 10th National Assembly, on Wednesday. He said: “While the size of the FG budget for ...

The Federal Airport Authority of Nigeria in conjunction with Ala Resort Limited has concluded arrangements to turn the Akure Airport into an aerotropolis. The Chief Executive Officer of the resort, Mr Moyosola Niran-Oladunni, stated this in Akure on Monday, during a news conference to herald the inauguration of the project on Tuesday. Niran-Oladunni said that the project would be inaugurated ...