Faces At The 60th Birthday/Retirement Thanksgiving Mass Of Mr Joseph Alegbesoge At St Agnes Catholic Church Maryland Lagos on 07/04/25
Author: Orientalnews Staff
Yemisi Izuora The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has explained that the Investments and Securities Act 2025 introduces key reforms aimed at boosting investors confidence, strengthening market oversight and aligning Nigeria’s financial markets with global best practices. The Director General (DG) of the SEC, Dr. Emomotimi Agama, stated this while giving insights into the new law in Abuja at the weekend. Dr. Agama said the ISA 2025 is a transformative step for the capital market as some of the key reforms includes the formal recognition of virtual assets such as cryptocurrencies as securities, bringing them under the regulatory oversight…
Joyce Onwuka Iwosan Investments Limited, a healthcare investment company with an ongoing commitment to revolutionize healthcare delivery in Nigeria, announced today that it has engaged Mayo Clinic Global Consulting to provide strategic advice on organizational objectives and clinical practice. Under the consulting contract, Iwosan will work with Mayo Clinic experts on several projects to advance high-quality, patient-centered healthcare in Nigeria. The aim is to advise and support Iwosan in delivering world-class healthcare services that will positively impact both local and regional communities. This includes the enhancement of Iwosan’s hospital network starting with Iwosan Lagoon Hospitals and the development and…
Valentine Okafor The Executive Chairman, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, and President, Network of National Anti-Corruption Institutions in West Africa, NACIWA, Mr. Ola Olukoyede has charged representatives of the fourteen member countries of NACIWA on improved international cooperation and collaboration as vital tools to curb corruption in the West African region. He gave the charge in Suleja, Niger State on Monday, April 7, 2025 while speaking at a 5-day Regional Certification Training on Financial Investigation for Anti-Corruption Institutions in ECOWAS Member States According to him, the threats being posed by corruption to NACIWA member nations are trans-national and to confront them, stronger synergy among…
Joseph Bakare Justice S.M Shuaibu of the Federal High Court, Kano has convicted and sentenced a Make-up Artist, Abdullahi Musa Huseini (a.k.a Amuscap) to six months imprisonment for Naira abuse. He was jailed after pleading guilty to one-count charge bordering on abuse and mutilation of the Naira. The charge reads: “That you, Abdullahi Musa Huseini, on the 6th day of December, 2024, at Ali Jita Event Centre, Kano, within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court whilst dancing during a social event tampered with the sum N100,000.00 (One Hundred Thousand Naira) in 1000 notes denomination issued by…
Tunde Bakare The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Monday, April 7, 2025, arraigned the Accountant General of Bauchi State, Sirajo Muhammad Jaja, before Justice O.A. Egwuatu of the Federal High Court, sitting in Maitama, Abuja for fraud. Jaja was arraigned alongside a bureau de change operator, Aliyu Abubakar, and his company, Jasfad Resources Enterprise. Others involved in the case, who are currently at large, include a former Secretary to the Bauchi State Government, Ibrahim Kashim, the incumbent Secretary to the State Government, Aminu Hammayo, Saleh U. Mohammed and Balarabe Abdullahi. The defendants are facing a nine-count charge, bordering on…
Joseph Bakare The Minister for Youth Development, Mr. Ayodele Olawande has advocated for more reforms that would enable Corps Members become more relevant in today’s job market. He said efforts must also be put in place to make them useful to the society through agriculture, rural health, self- empowerment through skills among others. The Minister stated this in his goodwill message at the opening ceremony of 2025 National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) Annual Management Conference held in Abuja. Olawande, who advised that there should be National Internship Scheme that would be solely for youth empowerment also pledged the continued…
Yemisi Izuora As part of its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiatives, leading financial institution, Fidelity Bank Plc, recently donated food packs to Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Abuja residents. Themed, the Fidelity Food Bank initiative, the outreach saw the bank’s officials distribute the food items to seven communities in the Mabushi district of the FCT. Speaking at the distribution event, the Executive Director, North, Fidelity Bank Plc, Mr. Sufiyanu Garba, emphasized the bank’s commitment to community development and its alignment with Sustainable Development Goal 2, which seeks to eradicate hunger. “This initiative stems from our deep-seated responsibility to support underserved…
The Honourable Minister of Police Affairs, Senator Ibrahim Gaidam has reiterated the need to establish a seamless and secure mechanism for real-time intelligence sharing, enhancing capacity for proactive and preemptive responses to threats. He stated this during an Interagency Security Seminar with a theme: Multiplicity of Operations in Nigeria’s Contemporary Security Landscape: Optimizing Multi-Agency Efforts for Effective Treat Response, organized by the Army War College Nigeria Course 9/2025held at the TYB Auditorium, ACWN, Wu Bassey Barracks, Asokoro, Abuja. The Minister, who was the Special Guest of Honour, pointed out that to optimize multi-agency efforts for effective threat response, they…
A group of Community Development Associations,CDA located in the border area of Ogun state, under the aegis of Araromi Oke-Odo Area CDC has sent a Save Our Soul Letter to Power Minister,Adebayo Adelabu over the power outage in the nine communities that make up the area. In the letter,the communities decried the failure of the Ikeja Electricity Distribution Company to repair and or replace the transformer removed for repairs since October last year thereby putting them in total black out with no hope of repair in sight. Full letter below: The Honourable Minister of Power, Ministry of Power, Abuja.…