Another pastor, who was among the 40 sacked pastors by Bishop David Oyedepo’s Living Faith Church, has accused the church of paying pastors who were graduates ₦38,000. Truetells Nigeria recalls Peter Godwin, who claimed to be a former pastor of the church, had alleged that he was sacked for failing to make enough money. According…
Former Staff of First Bank Nigeria Limited, Oreoluwa Adesakin, has been handed a cumulative 98 years in prison by Justice Muniru Olagunju of Oyo High Court for fraud. TruetellsNigeria reports that Adesakin, female, was found to have committed financial fraud against her employers to the tune of N49,320,652.32 and an additional $368,203.00 belonging to…
The Nigeria police have arrested a suspected internet fraudster, Chukwuebuka Obiaku, who allegedly lured an American woman to Nigeria with marriage and extorted her of $48,000. An American lady, who was lured from her country by her Nigerian facebook friend, has been rescued from a Lagos hotel, where she was alleged to have been confined…
COVID-19 cases in Nigeria increased beyond 10,000 mark on Sunday with 307 new cases reported by the country. The increase has continued despite intensified efforts by authorities to flatten the curve of the pandemic. The new cases announced by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCC) takes infections in Africa’s most populous nation to 10,162,…
The Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, has said the state may witness up to 39,000 cases of coronavirus. Abayomi at a briefing on Friday urged people to adhere to the social distancing advice of the state government to check the spread of the disease. He said, “Our mathematical modelling shows that the…
The coronavirus pandemic has killed more than 9,000 people across the globe, according to an AFP tally Thursday based on official sources. A total of 9,020 deaths were recorded as of 1100 GMT, with 4,134 in Europe and 3,416 in Asia, where the outbreak first emerged in China in December. With 712 more deaths reported…
The coronavirus death toll exceeded 1,000 on Monday February 10, as health workers around the world continue working hard to contain the flu-like virus since its outbreak in Wuhan, the provincial capital of Hubei. China’s National Health Commission said the total number of deaths on the mainland reached 1,016 by midnight on Monday. 2,478 new cases of infection were…
Shuaibu Ibrahim, the director-general of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) says the monthly allowance of corp members has been increased to N33,000. The NYSC boss gave the cheering news during a working visit to the NYSC secretariat in Bauchi. According to a statement released on the scheme’s official Facebook page, Ibrahim said the increase is in…
Chairman , Kaduna State Internal Revenue Services, Zaid Abubakar, has said more than 30,000 companies in the state do not pay their taxes. He said this on Tuesday in Kaduna when a civil society organisation, Tax Justice and Governance Platform, paid him a courtesy visit. He noted that only a few paid their taxes, adding…
