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EFCC arrests Okorocha after hours of siege

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Floor of the Nigerian Stock Exchange

Nigerian stocks in biggest year-to-date fall after interest rate increase

INEC Chairman, Mahmood Yakubu

INEC to partner ICPC to prosecute candidates with forged academic credentials – Yakubu

Bandits and Security Threats

Bandits kill 12 farmers in Katsina attack

Officers of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission at the Abuja residence of a former Imo State Governor Rochas Okorocha.

Why we invaded Okorocha’s house – EFCC

A Collage of Governor Okezie Ikpeazu and Enyinnaya Abaribe

ANALYSIS: PDP risks losing Abia as Zamfara scenario looms

Security Operatives besiege Rochas Okorochas House in Abuja

EFCC siege is ploy to prevent my APC presidential screening – Okorocha

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Top News

2023: Again, APC adjusts timetable for primaries

Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi

Gov Ugwuanyi wins PDP’s Enugu North Senatorial ticket

Senator Bassey Albert

2023: Why I won’t participate in Akwa Ibom PDP governorship primaries – Senator

Datti Ahmed and Shehu Sani

2023: Shehu Sani vows not to bribe delegates as another aspirant withdraws from contest

Jolly Nyame was sentenced to 14 years in prison for fraud

Court orders Taraba govt to pay pension arrears of Jolly Nyame, others

Linda Anukwuem (on the right), during her interview with PREMIUM TIMES

Why I have mixed feelings on diaspora voting – Publisher

Senator Rochas Okorocha

Security operatives fire teargas to disperse protesters at Okorocha’s house

Delta PDP: ‘Not the outcome we wanted,’ says Reps member floored by Ibori’s daughter

More News

Justice symbol used to illustrate the story.

Court remands suspected internet fraudster who allegedly killed police officer

A Catholic Church used to illustrate story

Sustainable lifestyle, panacea for looming food, energy crises – Officials

Office of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB)

JAMB set to tackle alleged smear campaigns, organises training for officers

#WHA75 Member States re-elected Ghebreyesus to serve a second five-year term as Director-General of the WHO.

WHA75: Ghebreyesus re-elected as WHO director – general

Participants and some facilitators at the cross-session of the training

CJID, IWPR train Nigerian journalists on ‘Conflict and Human Rights’ reporting

PDP elects another candidate in second primaries in Badagry

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Special Reports

The compound of facility along Ikogosi road

Headline Stories

Without consulting residents, lawmaker facilitates N115million ‘health centres’. Now they’re used by termites, bushes

FDA Officials ready to search the Fareast Warehouse

Headline Stories

Consuming trash: unravelling the multi-million cedi business in Ghana’s expired products business (Part 2)

Suspect Eddy Sarpong loading suspected unwholesome goods at the Fareast Warehouse

Headline Stories

Consuming Trash: Unravelling the multi-million cedi business in Ghana’s expired products business (Part 1)

Sample plot of Bt Cowpea at National Biotechnology Development Agency (NABDA) Abuja. Credit: PREMIUM TIMES

Headline Stories

INVESTIGATION: In Nigerian communities, farmers growing GM crops know too little to make informed decisions

Excavator used for mining at Angwan Gwandara

Headline Stories

SPECIAL REPORT: Misery of agrarian Nasarawa community shows pitfalls, potential of solid minerals in Nigeria

IPOB : Burnt vehicles at Ezeacho Hotel located on the Okporo-Mgbidi Road behind St Damian’s Hospital mortuary.

Headline Stories

SPECIAL REPORT: Inside Nigeria’s bloody war with IPOB where innocent citizens pay heavy price

Promoted Content

LandWey set to deliver over 1,000 homes to Nigerians from second quarter of 2022

How Sunlight wowed and thrilled guests at the 2022 AMVCA

How Sunlight wowed and thrilled guests at the 2022 AMVCA

Photo Caption: L-R: Mrs. Adebimpe Ihekuna, Group Head, Product & Market Development, Polaris Bank, Teju Abisoye, Executive Secretary, LSETF, Segun Opeke, Executive Director, Lagos Business, Polaris Bank and Omolara Adewumi, Director of Programs, LSETF at the Launch of N1b LSETF/Polaris Artisans Fund in Lagos on Wednesday.

Polaris Bank, Lagos State Employment Trust Fund launch N1b fund to empower artisans in Lagos

NB Plc partners with Konexa to deliver 100% renewable energy to its Kaduna Breweries

NB Plc partners with Konexa to deliver 100% renewable energy to its Kaduna Breweries

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PandoraPapers

President Muhammadu Buhari and Mohammed Bello-Koko Managing Director, NPA

Headline Stories

Activists dismiss Buhari’s anti-corruption vow after appointment of Bello-Koko named in Pandora Papers

February 21, 2022

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Headline Stories

Pandora Papers: Inside the crime-infested life of Diezani’s ally, Walter Wagbatsoma

November 27, 2021

PANDORA PAPERS

Features And Interviews

Pandora Papers and the power of open-source data

November 22, 2021

The Nigerian National Assembly, Abuja.

Headline Stories

Pandora Papers: Inside the secret assets of a Nigerian lawmaker, and how he serially broke the law

October 30, 2021

L-R: Former governor of Anambra state, Peter Obi; Governor of Kebbi state, Atiku Bagudu; Governor of Ogun state, Governor Dapo Abiodun; former Minister of Aviation and serving senator, Stella Oduah and, Governor Gboyega Oyetola of Osun State, were all fingered in the recent PANDORA PAPERS report published by PREMIUM TIMES

Headline Stories

PANDORA PAPERS: Code of Conduct Bureau set to probe Peter Obi, Bello-Koko others

October 21, 2021

Justice Stella Ogene

Headline Stories

PANDORA PAPERS: This Nigerian judge secretly owns London property with undeclared offshore company

October 19, 2021

#SuisseSecrets

INVESTIGATION: #SuisseSecrets: German who bribed top Nigerian officials had secret Credit Suisse accounts

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INVESTIGATION: #SuisseSecrets: German who bribed top Nigerian officials had secret Credit Suisse accounts

February 21, 2022

#SuisseSecrets

#SuisseSecrets: Historic Leak of Swiss Banking Records Reveals Unsavory Clients

February 21, 2022

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#SuisseSecrets: Credit Suisse banked, financed Zimbabwean fraudster in deal that saved Mugabe

February 20, 2022

#SuisseSecrets: Bank of Spies: Credit Suisse Catered to Global Intelligence Figures

#SuisseSecrets

What is #SuisseSecrets? Everything you need to know about the Swiss Banking Leak

February 20, 2022

Features and Interviews

Sokoto State Governor, Aminu Tambuwal (Photo Credit: BBC)

Features And Interviews

ANALYSIS: Tambuwal’s silence puts Sokoto PDP governorship aspirants on edge

byMohammed Babangida

The Yar'adu'a's family house in Katsina.

Features And Interviews

ANALYSIS: Why presidential aspirants make ‘pilgrimage’ to Yar’Adua’s family house

byMohammed Babangida

A collage of 2023 presidential aspirants - Musa Kwankwaso. Kingsley Moghalu. Kola Abiola. Omoyele Sowore. Garba Adamu

Features And Interviews

ANALYSIS: No more also-rans: Parties seeking to rattle APC, PDP in 2023 General Election

bySamson Adenekan

A collage of 2023 presidential aspirants - Lawan, Tinubu, Wike, Atiku, Osinbajo and Moghalu

Features And Interviews

UPDATED: PT State of the Race: ‘Reluctant’ Lawan, double-dealings as contests for APC, PDP tickets heighten

Mrs Olawanle Olayinka, ailing mother of late Olatunji Olayinka, a brigadier general, who was involved in a military plane crash near Kaduna International Airport, on May 21, 2021.

Features And Interviews

A year after plane crash killed her soldier son, mother shares bitter tale

byMedinat Kanabe

Abimbola Davis

Features And Interviews

INTERVIEW: How IBB recruited Nzeribe for ‘hidden agenda’ – ABN chief Abimbola Davis

Editorial Cartoons

Disappearing Legacy

Cartoon Of The Day: Kalo-Kalo Nomination

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Business

News Reports

Floor of the Nigerian Stock Exchange

Nigerian stocks in biggest year-to-date fall after interest rate increase

Toyata Headquarters

Toyota to cut global production in June

The Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN. [PHOTO CREDIT: Ehud Kaduna]

Nigeria’s central bank raises interest rate from 11.5% to 13%

An NLPC PFA Building

NLPC repositions to capitalise on bond returns

Central Bank of Nigeria on the need for a Trade Remedies Legislation

Be realistic on interest rate decision, analysts tell CBN

Financial Inclusion

Man on the phone [Photo: TechQuery]

With new healthcare charge, Nigeria’s phone call tax up 300% in three years

MTN Nigeria’s payment service bank subsidiary MoMo PSB starts operation

MTN Nigeria’s payment service bank subsidiary MoMo PSB starts operation

Airtel launches Nigeria payment service bank unit SmartCash PSB

Ibrahim has never used an ATM because of barriers to access. Photo: ‘Kunle Adebajo.

How banks in Nigeria, Ghana deny people with disabilities services

A POS device used to illustrate the story

ANALYSIS: What licensing Momo Bank means for Nigeria’s financial inclusion, economy

Analysis & Data

A cargo ship used to illustrate the story

ANALYSIS: Ending Nigeria’s oil dependency and preparing for a future without oil

ANALYSIS: Risks, rewards of Africa’s access to international capital markets

February 11, 2022

Nigerian food market. [Photo credit: The Guardian NG]

Nigeria’s minimum wage grossly inadequate, can’t meet basic nutritional needs of an adult – Report

January 21, 2022

Apapa Port - SON

ANALYSIS: How Buhari’s reforms impact corruption in Nigeria’s maritime sector

January 21, 2022

Lagos sea port usef to illustrate the story. [Photo credit: The Guardian Nigeria]

Improving Port Efficiency: Emerging good practice from Nigeria

December 30, 2021

Regional

South West

Justice symbol used to illustrate the story.

Court remands suspected internet fraudster who allegedly killed police officer

PDP elects another candidate in second primaries in Badagry

Governor Dapo Abiodun, Adekunle Akinlade, Modele Sharafa-Yusuf, Ladi Adebutu, Segun Sowunmi and Jimi Lawal

Ogun 2023: Intrigues as APC, PDP governorship aspirants battle for tickets

Kidnappers free cleric, son

South South

Senator Bassey Albert

2023: Why I won’t participate in Akwa Ibom PDP governorship primaries – Senator

Delta PDP: ‘Not the outcome we wanted,’ says Reps member floored by Ibori’s daughter

Okowa, Ibori, Sheriff Oborevwori, David Edevbie, Omo-Agege, Kenneth Gbagi, Senator James Manager and Deputy Governor Kingsley Otuaro

Delta Governorship Primaries: Ibori, Okowa battle for supremacy in PDP

Rivers state Governor Nyesom Wike [PHOTO CREDIT: @GovWike]

Wike dissolves cabinet, sacks chief of staff

South East

Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi

Gov Ugwuanyi wins PDP’s Enugu North Senatorial ticket

A Collage of Governor Okezie Ikpeazu and Enyinnaya Abaribe

ANALYSIS: PDP risks losing Abia as Zamfara scenario looms

Nigeria Police officers on duty

Police accuse residents of withholding information on gunmen terrorising Anambra

All Progressives Congress (APC)

2023: APC presidential aspirants unite for South-east interest

North West

Datti Ahmed and Shehu Sani

2023: Shehu Sani vows not to bribe delegates as another aspirant withdraws from contest

FILE: A PDP rally in Kaduna

2023: Mustapha wins PDP ticket for Kaduna North Senatorial District

Sokoto State Governor, Aminu Tambuwal (Photo Credit: BBC)

ANALYSIS: Tambuwal’s silence puts Sokoto PDP governorship aspirants on edge

PDP Primaries: How Jigawa PDP NASS candidates emerged

North East

Jolly Nyame was sentenced to 14 years in prison for fraud

Court orders Taraba govt to pay pension arrears of Jolly Nyame, others

Babagana Zulum [PHOTO CREDIT: @GovBorno]

I’m not begging anyone for position of Vice President – Governor Zulum

WADATA PLAZA, Abuja, National secretariat for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

Primaries: Yaya-Bauchi wins PDP ticket for Gombe-Kwami-Funakaye Federal Constituency

FILE PHOTO: Troops of the Nigerian Army. [PHOTO CREDIT: Official Twitter handle of the Nigerian Army @HQNigerianArmy]

Troops kill 42 terrorists, capture 20, rescue 63 victims in North-east – DHQ

North Central

Burnt properties at Dei-Dei market after violent clashes.

How auto accident ignited riot that claimed five lives, wares worth millions of naira in Abuja market

Police Officers

Abducted Keffi LG Chairman regains freedom

Governor of Plateau State, Simon Bako Lalong [PHOTO CREDIT: @The Plateau State Governor’s Directorate Of Press]

APC Presidential Primary: Plateau delegates will vote Amaechi, this is why – Governor Lalong

Pictures from Trade More estate, Lugbe.

Flooding: FCDA demolishes 17 houses at Abuja Estate

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Nigerian govt gives condition it may ban Facebook

President Buhari, Osinbajo and Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook.

Nigerian govt gives condition it may ban Facebook

VOXPOP: 2023: Would you vote Young persons into an elective position, Nigerians speak

VOXPOP: 2023: Would you vote Young persons into an elective position, Nigerians speak

President Muhammadu Buhari signing

Buhari signs three bills to tackle money laundering, terrorism financing

Bola Ahmed Tinubu, APC National chieftain.

2023: Anybody can run but not everybody can be president – Tinubu

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VOXPOP: 2023: Would you vote a female candidate in an elective position, Nigerian men speak

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International

Linda Anukwuem (on the right), during her interview with PREMIUM TIMES

Why I have mixed feelings on diaspora voting – Publisher

Rwanda asks Britain to extradite suspects of 1994 genocide

Cuban flag flying

U.S. eases travel restrictions on Cuba

A petrol pump nozzle

Sri Lanka out of petrol as economic crisis deepens

Sports

Victor Osimhen

Transfer Update: Arsenal hold talks with Osimhen’s agent

Oshodi, El-Salhy and Hamzat

Table Tennis: Lagos offers to host World Championships

Afcon 2023 Qualifiers: Two countries drop out as Cote D’Ivoire names new coach

Sunday Dare, Minister of Youth and Sports Development [PHOTO CREDIT: @SundayDareSD]

Interim Management Committee named to oversee Nigeria Basketball

Arts and Entertainment

I will undergo plastic surgery if – Actress, Bimbo Ademoye

Legendary Nigerian Musician, Friday Igwe, popularly known as “Baba Fryo”

Baba Fryo to drop new single after 20-year-hiatus

Late legendary Nigerian singer, Sonny Okosun

Remembering Ozziddi exponent, Sonny Okosun, 14 years on

Dr Yahaya Abubakar Etsu Nupe

Bida City declared UNESCO Creative Cities Network member – Etsu Nupe

Portable, Davido and Wizkid

HEADIES 2022: Wizkid, Davido, Portable bag nominations (FULL NOMINATION LIST)

D'banj, Yemi Alade and Davido

Davido, D’banj, Yemi Alade to perform at Africa Day Concert

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Tope Fasua proposes a revision of the ease of doing business index in Nigeria

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Godwin Onyeacholem writes about whistleblowers, journalists and the need for protection.

Whistleblowers, journalists and the need for protection, By Godwin Onyeacholem

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PAPSS: A crucial payment system for the African market, By Lanre-Peter Elufisan

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Alhaji Auwalu Bayero about the need for equity and fairness in the politics of Jigawa State.

2023: A call for equity in power distribution in Jigawa, By Auwalu Bayero

Editorial

Godwin Emefiele

EDITORIAL: Why The CBN Governor Should Be Sacked

APC Presidential form sold for N100m.

EDITORIAL: Why APC’s N100m odious nomination forms bazaar should be resisted

EDITORIAL: A Loud NO To Afe Babalola!

A photo collage of former Plateau State Governor, Joshua Dariye, former Taraba State Governor, Jolly Nyame and President Muhammadu Buhari

EDITORIAL: Nigerians must reject Buhari’s injudicious pardon of Dariye, Nyame

The Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN. [PHOTO CREDIT: Ehud Kaduna]

EDITORIAL: CBN and the Burden of Inflation

Godwin Emefiele, governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN).

EDITORIAL: Why Godwin Emefiele must speak up or resign

February 21, 2022

Health

News Reports

#WHA75 Member States re-elected Ghebreyesus to serve a second five-year term as Director-General of the WHO.

WHA75: Ghebreyesus re-elected as WHO director – general

75th World Health Assembly

WHA75: Nigeria seeks Noma’s inclusion on neglected tropical diseases’ list

Conflicts, weather extremes, COVID-19 threaten global health – Summit

World Health Organisation

WHA75: Global health leaders want WHO funding model improved

Investigations

Boy carrying a bucket of water in front of Katanmi PHC

INVESTIGATION: Four years after Buhari’s promise, Sokoto primary health centres still in ruins

An infographic showing how many women were diagnosed with cervical cancer and how many women died from the ailment.

SPECIAL REPORT: Ignorance, other factors threaten cervical cancer elimination in Nigeria

February 6, 2022

Infographic showing states with child rights law.

Imude: Inside Lagos community where child marriage is rampant

December 23, 2021

President Muhammadu Buhari

2022 Budget: Despite losing major international funding, Nigerian govt refuses to fund Family Planning

November 12, 2021

Health Specials

The compound of facility along Ikogosi road

Without consulting residents, lawmaker facilitates N115million ‘health centres’. Now they’re used by termites, bushes

Participants at a high-level symposium organised by the West African Institute of Public Health (WAIPH) with support of the Partnership for Advocacy in Child and Family Health @scale (PACFaH@Scale/PAS) and other partners

Experts, CSOs discuss vaccine production in Africa (LIVE UPDATES)

Prison used to illustrate the story.

EXCLUSIVE: Coverup in Nigerian prison as TB hits, kills several inmates

Autism Spectrum Disorder Infograph

For families of people with autism in Nigeria, treatment, therapy cost a nightmare

Features

Cross-section of panelists and participants at the fourth annual autism conference organised by TAAF

Group launches mobile application for Autism therapy in Nigeria

What is aphasia? An expert explains the condition forcing Bruce Willis to retire from acting

What is aphasia? An expert explains the condition forcing Bruce Willis to retire from acting

Human kidney (PHOTO CREDIT: National Kidney Foundation)

World Kidney Day: How Nigerians can avoid kidney diseases

A baby lying down on his back, smiling

Africa: Time to halt infant formula marketing that harms our children

Data & Infographics

President Muhammadu Buhari

2022 Budget: Despite losing major international funding, Nigerian govt refuses to fund Family Planning

November 12, 2021

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President Muhammadu Buhari on arrival to London [PHOTO CREDIT: @TheAsoVilla]

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Children waiting for treatment at a treatment centre in Ringim LGA.

INFOGRAPHICS: Despite govt actions, 4,000 children died from malnutrition in Jigawa

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