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Ex-NIMASA boss bags seven years for N1.7b fraud
Justice I.N. Buba of Federal High Court, sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos on Wednesday, July 15, 2020 convicted and sentenced Captain Ezekiel Bala Agaba, a former executive director, Maritime Safety and Shipping Development, in the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA to seven years jail term for N1.7billion fraud. According to a statement issued on Wednesday […]
Alleged fraud: Magu released from custody, to face Malami in full-scale ‘war’
After over one week of being in detention over allegations of corruption levelled against him by the Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, the suspended acting chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu, was released from police custody Wednesday evening. One of Magu’s lawyers, Tosin Ojaomo, who had filed a bail […]
India’s Glenmark Pharma cuts price of COVID-19 drug by 27% to N380 per tablet
India’s leading drug manufacturer, Glenmark Pharmaceuticals on Monday said it has cut price of its antiviral drug Favipiravir, under the brand name FabiFlu, for the treatment of patients with mild to moderate COVID-19, by 27 per cent to Rs 75 or about N380 per tablet. Glenmark Pharmaceuticals had launched FabiFlu last month at a price […]
Mobil, MTNN, Zenith, GTB, other stocks cause market’s negative start
NSE ASI down 0.44%, dips 1.14% month-to-date Nigeria’s stock market opened this week trading (Monday July 13) on a negative note, corroborating BusinessDay’s earlier report that the market will remain pressured this week. The continued spread of the Coronavirus and its negative impact on major global and domestic indicators remain a source of worry to […]
APC, Ganduje, and fear of ‘Gama Option’ in Edo gubernatorial election
One of the global scholars in the field of Comparative Politics, Karl Deutsch, in one of his publications, recently, submits that modern social science has increased man`s power to observe and compare systematically the empirical world of facts around us and to subject many of these and processes to quantitative measurement and logical and mathematical […]
